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- ↑ "Scorecard: Auckland v Canterbury". Cricket Archive. 2010. Archived from the original on 29 November 2014.
- ↑ Evening Post , 28 January 1914, p. 8.
- ↑ Auckland Star , 21 February 1914, p. 7.
- ↑ "Mark Geoffrey Orchard". Cricket Archive. Archived from the original on 13 January 2016.
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