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- ↑ "PENSIONER SETTLEMENTS ELECTION. RETURN OF MR. KERR". Daily Southern Cross . Vol. XXIII, no. 3135. 6 August 1867. p. 3. Retrieved 3 July 2010.
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- ↑ "The Elections". Daily Southern Cross . Vol. XV, no. 1132. 4 May 1858. p. 3. Retrieved 2 May 2013.