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- ↑ The Zeehan and Dundas herald, William Lawrence Calder and Joseph Bowden, Herald Co-operative Party, 1890, ISSN 1839-7158
- ↑ "O'Keefe, David John (1864–1943)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.
- ↑ "THE ZEEHAN HERALD". Daily Telegraph . Vol. XXVII, no. 275. Tasmania. 20 November 1907. p. 5. Retrieved 25 April 2016– via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ Catalogue: Zeehan Dundas herald [microform]
- ↑ "WESTERN NEWSPAPER". The Mercury . Hobart, Tas. 30 August 1933. p. 9. Retrieved 23 October 2015– via National Library of Australia.
- ↑ The Zeehan and Dundas herald, William Lawrence Calder and Joseph Bowden, Herald Co-operative Party, 1890, ISSN 2201-0424
- ↑ Zeehan and Dundas Herald, [s.n.], 1900, retrieved 25 April 2016
- ↑ The Zeehan and Dundas herald, William Lawrence Calder and Joseph Bowden, Herald Co-operative Party, 1890, ISSN 1839-7158
- ↑ Tasmanian Family History Society. Burnie Branch (2001), The Zeehan and Dundas herald : births, deaths and marriages index, Tasmanian Family History Society, Burnie Branch, ISBN 978-1-876445-85-0
- ↑ Howard, Patrick (2006), The Zeehan El Dorado : a history of Zeehan, Mount Heemskirk Books, ISBN 978-0-646-46766-5