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- 1 2 "Election Notices". Lyttelton Times . Vol. XXIX, no. 2298. 5 May 1868. p. 1. Retrieved 19 January 2019– via Papers Past.
- ↑ "The Avon Election". Lyttelton Times. 12 March 1867 – via Papers Past.
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