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- ↑ Memories of my fallen M.P. friends Cook Islands Herald Views, 2 April 2014, p11
- ↑ Storms ahead in the Cooks? Pacific Islands Monthly, February 1978, p71
- ↑ Matapo Matapo Pacific Islands Monthly, October 1983, p65
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