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- 1 2 3 4 "Municipality Boundary Amendments Register" (PDF). Western Australian Electoral Distribution Commission. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
- ↑ "BAMBOO CREEK". Northern Public Opinion And Mining And Pastoral News . Western Australia. 13 February 1897. p. 4. Retrieved 16 January 2020– via Trove.
- ↑ "BAMBOO CREEK". Northern Public Opinion And Mining And Pastoral News . Western Australia. 13 February 1897. p. 4. Retrieved 16 January 2020– via Trove.
- ↑ "Advertising". The Pilbarra Goldfield News . Western Australia. 26 November 1897. p. 3. Retrieved 16 January 2020– via Trove.
- ↑ "Advertising". The Pilbarra Goldfield News . Western Australia. 22 January 1909. p. 2. Retrieved 16 January 2020– via Trove.