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- ↑ New South Wales Rugby Football League. (1920). "New Zealand Team Leaders, 1957". The Rugby League news. 38 (16 (25 June 1957)). Sydney: N.S.W. Rugby Football League. nla.obj-760894692. Retrieved 21 January 2020– via Trove.
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