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- 1 2 3 4 5 Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics (1972). Official Year Book of the Commonwealth of Australia, No. 58. Canberra. p. 800.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ↑ Roche, Julian (1995). The international wool trade. Cambridge, England: Woodhead Pub. Ltd. p. 176. ISBN 1855731916.
- ↑ Milestones – a brief history of the Australian wool industry
