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- 1 2 3 "Unseated: Liberals lose a member". The Sydney Morning Herald . 4 October 1911. p. 17. Retrieved 2 December 2019– via Trove.
- ↑ "Petition of William George Ashford". Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales (127). 19 September 1911. p. 5065. Retrieved 2 December 2019– via Trove.
- ↑ "Liverpool Plains". The Sydney Morning Herald . 27 September 1911. p. 16. Retrieved 3 December 2019– via Trove.
- ↑ "A dead heat". The Daily Telegraph . 27 September 1911. p. 9. Retrieved 3 December 2019– via Trove.
- ↑ "Writ of election: Liverpool Plains". Government Gazette Of The State Of New South Wales (138). 6 October 1911. p. 5423. Retrieved 3 December 2019– via Trove.
- ↑ Green, Antony. "October 1911 Liverpool Plains by-election". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales . Retrieved 3 December 2019.
- Green, Antony. "1910 Liverpool Plains". New South Wales Election Results 1856-2007. Parliament of New South Wales . Retrieved 9 September 2020.
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