PIGEON FLYING.
With fine weather and a following wind excellent times were registered by the Manawatu Homing Pigeon Club’s birds from„ Frankton Junction over the week-end, the distance being 178 miles airline. Eighty birds competed. The following are the first five placings:.-—Mr T. Inkpen’s Glowing, 1360.6yds pci' minute, 1; Mr A. E. Marshall’s blk. chequer hen, 1345.8, 2; Mr N. Harvey’s Non-nicer, 1344.2, 3; Milford Lofts’s Lone Star, 1334.9, 4; Mr L. Purton’s All Red, 1333.5, 5. Over the next week-end a flock race from Auckland will be held.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/MS19331004.2.54
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 263, 4 October 1933, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
89PIGEON FLYING. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 263, 4 October 1933, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Manawatu Standard. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in