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- ↑ To-day's Cinema News and Property Gazette, Volumes 3-4, July 9, 1913, p. 111, retrieved October 1, 2015
- ↑ To-day's Cinema News and Property Gazette, Volumes 3-4, July 9, 1913, p. 12-13, retrieved October 1, 2015
- ↑ Nelson Evening Mail. Vol XLVIII. 14 February 1914. p 7. Retrieved 1 October 2015
