THE PYGMY STORY
MERELY A HOAX. (Received Saturday, 10.20 a.m.) BOMBAY, Friday. * The pygmy story is one of the greatest hoaxes in recent times.
No discovery was made, and the report is either a practical joke or due to an ancient Hindu superstition, that spreading a false rumour helps in a domestic crisis, like child-birth.
The local authorities have been overwhelmed by world-wide cable enquiries, inconvenience in dealing with which resulted in a strict investigation.
A previous Bombay cable stated that there had been discovered the fossil remains of a 15-incli pygmy, a. 10-inch walking-stick, and an 18-inch high cow, in a well 150 feet deep.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 23 February 1935, Page 5
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