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- 1 2 3 "Municipality Boundary Amendments Register" (PDF). Western Australian Electoral Distribution Commission. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
- ↑ "Advertising". The Pilbarra Goldfield News . Western Australia. 4 May 1907. p. 2. Retrieved 16 January 2020– via Trove.
- ↑ "LOCAL AND GENERAL". The Pilbarra Goldfield News . Western Australia. 22 March 1899. p. 2. Retrieved 16 January 2020– via Trove.