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- ↑ Bacchus Marsh Express office and printing works Heritage Victoria; Retrieved 23 July 2014.
- ↑ The Bacchus Marsh express : and general advertiser for Ballan, Melton, Myrniong, Blackwood, Gisborne, Egerton and Gordon districts. SLVcatalogue. State Library of Victoria. Retrieved 23 July 2014
- ↑ All press printing & signs Archived 18 July 2021 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 23 July 2014