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- ↑ "Swimmer Sets Games Record". Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate (22, 890). New South Wales, Australia. 11 February 1950. p. 12. Retrieved 9 September 2016– via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ Profile at the New Zealand Olympic Committee website
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