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- ↑ Wood p.65
- ↑ Chibnall p.7
- ↑ "SATURDAY, 30th NOVEMBER". The South-western News . Vol. XXV, no. 2138. Western Australia. 29 November 1929. p. 2. Retrieved 19 August 2017– via National Library of Australia.
