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- ↑ "Parish details". Archived from the original on 1 April 2008. Retrieved 30 March 2008.
- ↑ The form and order of the consecration of the Venerable Eric Austin Gowing, Master of Arts, to be Bishop of Auckland on the Feast of All Saints, the first day of November in the year of our lord one thousand nine hundred and sixty at 10.30 in the forenoon. 1960.
- ↑ The Times , 11 June 1981, p. 18, "Death of a former Bishop of Auckland".
- ↑ Laurie Guy, Worlds in Collision: The Gay Debate in New Zealand, 1960-1986 (Victoria University Press, Wellington, 2002), p. 71.
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