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- ↑ Hudson, Daisy (1 February 2020). "Long read: The Dunedin bombing that shocked a nation". Otago Daily Times Online News. Allied Press Limited. Retrieved 2 January 2023.
- ↑ "Dunedin Solicitor Murdered". Otago Daily Times . Allied Press Limited. 6 February 1962. p. 1.
- ↑ "Dunedin Lawyer Killed". Press. Vol. CI, no. 29740. Christchurch, New Zealand. New Zealand Press Association. 6 February 1962. p. 12. Retrieved 2 January 2023– via paperspast.natlib.govt.nz.
- ↑ Jones, Ronald. "The Ward Parcel-bomb Murder, 1962". In McLintock, Alexander Hare (ed.). An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand (1966 ed.). New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu Taonga. Retrieved 2 January 2023– via Te Ara (teara.govt.nz).
