Pigeon notes by Homer

WEATHER wise the long winter break is complete, although you would hardly think it, and the pigeon racing season is getting ready for the off. The opening race of the NIPA old bird programme will be flown from Tullamore in County Offaly on Saturday 10th April. Training, weather permitting, will be in full swing over the Easter Holiday period. Fanciers have had plenty to talk about, what about the new GB Rings?? Then of course the position of the pads within traps, and the interpretation of the r
By The Newsroom
Published 2nd Apr 2010, 13:07 BST
Updated 5th Apr 2010, 14:53 BST

Member clubs need to be aware of a number of changes that have been put in place to make the running of this massive organization a little easier for Secretary Fred Russell. Help will be supplied to clubs to enable them to submit an official copy of the Race Result by Fax over Saturday & Sunday which will hopefully enable a result to be made available on the Sunday evening to be used in the pigeon publicity over the next week. Please Note – Fax Number (028) 92 693913. An important part of all this is that clubs use the new, (Big White Envelope) for crate carriage, Transporter Only Envelope, to be handed to the driver on the Friday night collection. A properly signed cheque enclosed and filled out on the front of the envelope giving entry details, crates, members and birds competing etc. All information will be logged and cheques got ready for the bank early Saturday and everything in place waiting for club results on a Saturday evening. The Transporter Only Envelope is not to be mixed up with anything else, it alone with cheque and all information filled out, and handed to the driver during the club collection. No Envelope or cheque supplied to the driver, no collection the following week. No more posting your cheque. No more enclosing it in your duplicate envelopes.

While I am on the subject of envelopes, please use the correct envelope. If it says duplicates only, please only duplicates in the envelope. Rubber rings only, please only rubber rings in the envelope. Race results only, please only race results in the envelope and finally, transport charges only, please only your Club Cheque in the envelope. Far too many are simply using the first envelope they put their hands on. All these envelopes are designed to assist the Secretary and Fred would appreciate your assistance.

At the AGM the General Rule 62 was changed to read.

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Confirmation of club result must be faxed to the NIPA Secretary on the Official Result Form, within 24 hours of the race. The result envelope must be posted to the Secretary to arrive not later than four days after the race.

This means that unlike last year when information was returned on the next week’s transporter collection run, the business must be put in the post to arrive no later than Wednesday, assuming the race was flown on the Saturday.

With the Easter Holiday and the weather the way it has been some clubs have indicated they will not be sending the first race, any club not sending the first week should contact Ivan Mawhinney Tel: (028) 38 882322. I have a number of contact numbers for Secretary Fred Russell. From 9.00am until 4.00pm Tel: (028) 90 234805. From 8.00pm any night Tel: (028) 92 693913. Mobile: 07833 070371. Only these numbers to be used, no others, thank you.

When the season starts clubs should furnish their results to me as in the past for general publicity, if you can supply extra details that will help a lot, as will the odd photo. We have always relied on a number of area scribes to supply local news for various publications, including weekly newspapers and the fancy press as well. This as usual will be listed in the organisation report for each race, and remember we work to very tight deadlines. There is more to do than will ever be possible to be done, we can only try our best, to ensure your result is listed get the details to Homer, space is also available for all club’s to list results at no charge on www.pigeonnetwork.com