THE LOST TRIBE.
STEAMER PASSENGERS HOAXED. A DRAMATIC APPEARANCE. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) I DUNEDIN, Tuesday. Since a Christchurch business man entered into- the “Lost Tribe” 'controversy with the story of the dramatic appearance of a wild Maori on board the Tourist steamer Hinemoa at Dusky Sound some years ago, a Dunedin man, Mr Arthur W. Clapp, has been laughing heartily, for he was a passenger and in the joke, whose perpetration- has led to a fantastic tale of a survivor of the Ngatimamoe tribe being quoted to give credence to the legend of the Lost 'Tribe. It was all part of a social evening, and the actual part of the wild Maori was enacted by Mr Norman Bernstein, who, dressed in Maori garb, suddenly appeared over the stern of the vessel gesticulating fiercely, and later betook himself off the same way.
Four people, including Captain Roberts, were in the joke.
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Waikato Times, Volume 108, Issue 18167, 4 November 1930, Page 7
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