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STRANGE FOOTPRINTS IN SNOW By Telegraph—Press Association WANGANUI, June 20. Strange footprints in the snow in the Taoroa district, :. ut twenty miles from Taihape, are said to have puzzled Mr J. Missen : d friend who saw them while out shooting. 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 of the Wanganui Museum, said the prints resembled those of a reptile, but reptiles such as the tuatara lizard had fi e toes on the hind foot, one being long and in that case tne full imprint would have been left in the snow as would that of the front feet. Assuming the prints were those of a reptile, it would be cf enormous size to produce marks over a foot long.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVI, Issue 21377, 21 June 1939, Page 11
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