ROYALTY AT THE SHOW
Visitors to the Hawke 's Bay Show will have the opportunity of witnessing the smallest ruler the world has ever known, for PrinceSs Ubangi, who iB recent Queen of a quarter-of-a-mil-lion of ant-eating tree-dwelling lilliputians of the Belgian Congo is only 25in in height, scales 39 ,lbs. and, whilst Still unmarried, is 32 years* of age. The princess is an accomplished daucerand singer, of which she will make full uso (luring the show period. Ubangi who is the first of her tribe ever to leave the almost imponetrable Ubangan for* ests was a visitor to the recent Coronation CelebratioHs and spoke over tolevision at the B.B.C. tJpon her return negotiations were made by C. J. Delaney, well known AusLialian showman, who was toui'ing Africa at that time, and only after promising to return Ubangi to her tribe, dead or alive, within two years, would her parents consent to her dep&fttife. Speciai passport arrangements had to be made and £300 was lodged in bondS with the various South Affican authoritles whilst bonds of £100 each are lodged with the Australian and New Zealand Governmcnts. Ubangi is insured for £5,000 or £200 pdi" iflch and visitors to the shOW Sliould n6t fiiiSs the unsiiai personality. — P.B.A. v
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 21, 18 October 1937, Page 13
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