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{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help) - ↑ New Companies Daily Telegraph 19 July 1923 page 9
- ↑ New Colliers Daily Commercial News & Shipping List 1 October 1924 page 4
- ↑ New Collier for Miller & Co Cessnock Eagle & South Maitland Recorder 22 November 1929 page 1
- ↑ RW Miller's New Collier Sydney Morning Herald 6 January 1931 page 13
- ↑ RW Miller profit eases, despite big cut in provisions Canberra Times 6 October 1967 page 15
- ↑ Brewery sale to Tooheys…Miller Gives Clue - $2.9m? Canberra Times 18 November 1967 page 14
- ↑ Miller to get offer for hotels Canberra Times 30 April 1968 page 17
- ↑ TNT / Alltrans' growing interest in ship services Truck & Bus Transportation April 1969 page 25
- ↑ Ampol bids $14.5m for shares in R. W. Miller Canberra Times 23 May 1972 page 15
- ↑ H Smith formal offer for Miller Canberra Times 18 August 1972 page 11
- ↑ Farquar, Ian (2002). Howard Smith Shipping: Enterprise & Diversity 1854-2001. Caulfield South: Nautical Association of Australia. ISBN 0959907955.
- ↑ Coal & Allied Rebuilds in Hunter Australian Financial Review 30 September 1988