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- ↑ "POLITICAL STRATEGY" – The Sunday Times (Perth, Western Australia), 24 January 1932.
- ↑ The Western Australian Parliamentary Handbook (Twenty-Third Edition) Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine , p. 241.
- 1 2 3 Black, David; Prescott, Valerie (1997). Election statistics, Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, 1890-1996. Perth, Western Australia: Parliamentary History Project and Western Australian Electoral Commission. p. 300. ISBN 0-7309-8409-5.
- ↑ "DEATH OF MR. F. W. TEESDALE", The West Australian , 15 December 1931.