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- ↑ "Frontier of Dreams", Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand, retrieved 5 February 2024
- 1 2 "Frontier of Dreams History Project", Ministry for Culture and Heritage, archived from the original on 20 October 2007, retrieved 5 February 2024
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