STRANGE FOOTPRINTS
Toe Five or Six Inches Long
(By Telegraph—Preea Association.) WANGANUI, June 20.
Strange footprints in the snow in the Taoroa district, about 20 miles from Taihape, are said to have puzzled Mr J. Missen and a friend while out shoot, ing. The marks are described as being over a foot long with a toe three inches long projecting on one side from the base. Another toe about five or six inches long projected from the same side, the two toes being about three inches apart.
Mr G. Shepherd, curator at the Wanganui Museum, said that up to a stage the prints resemble those of a reptile, but reptiles such as the tutara lizard ; have five toes on the hind foot, one t being long, and in that case the full ' imprint would have been left in the snow, also that of the front feet. Assuming the prints were those of a reptile, It would be of an enormous size to produce marks over a loot long.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 144, 21 June 1939, Page 6
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