PIGEON FLYING
MAKARAKA CLUB RACE (Herald Correspondent.) The Makaraka Racing Pigeon Club held its weekly race on Saturday from Napier, a« airline distance of 85 miles. There was a good entry of birds, and although there was a heavy side wind good times were registered. The first to clock in was an entry from D. McLean's loft, which look 2hr. 35min. Results were:— D. McLean's b.p.c. (42), 2hr. 35min. 45sec, 1. R. Evans, b.e.h. (104), 2hr. 36min. 40sec, 2. T. Crosby's b.e.h. (85), 2hr. 3Gmin. 48sec., 3. A. McDonald's b.e.h. (127), 2hr. 40 min. lOsec, 4. Other lofts to' clock in were those of the Makaraka School, T. Jonasen, B. Murray, and W. Marshall. Moseley « Coventry fi Nuneaton "• St. Ban's Hospital 10 Old Merchant Taylors :'. Richmond 22 Vontypool .... 8 Bristol ti Plymouth London Albion 1 I University :' Rosslyn Park . . 20 St. Thomas Hospital :; Swansea 8 Old Cranlcighans 0 Northampton ... 2 Bedford !i Aberavon n Bridgend 0 Cardiff "' Llanelly H Neath I« Crosskeys 7 Pontypridd and Oxford .Mountain Ash K University 20 Edinburgh Academicals 0 Galu 11
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19892, 21 March 1939, Page 10
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