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- ↑ Four Hundred Capitalists The Shannon News, 15 February 1924
- ↑ Parish pump Uckfield - September 19, 2014 Sussex Express, 19 September 2014
- ↑ Fiji Blue Book for the Year 1922, p83
- ↑ Philip Snow (1997) Years of Hope: Cambridge, Colonial Administrator in the South Seas, and Cricket , p287
- ↑ Satya Colpani (1996) Beyond the Black Waters: A Memoir of Sir Sathi Narain , pp58–59