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Biography: Porritt, Arthur Espie

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Bibliography

Dekker, D. ‘Turning a modest face to stardom’. Evening Post. 26 Feb. 1983: 12

Mitchell, A. ‘Distinguished New Zealander’s “five thirteens” ’. Hawke’s Bay Herald-Tribune. 9 Oct. 1965

Obit. Dominion. 5 Jan. 1994: 2, 8

Palenski, R. & T. Maddaford. The games. Auckland, 1983

Romanos, J. & G. Woodfield. No ordinary man: the remarkable life of Arthur Porritt. Wellington, 2008

Verdon, T. ‘ “Complete Pommy” still fights for NZ’. New Zealand Herald. 12 Dec. 1987: 9

How to cite this page

Diana Beaglehole. 'Porritt, Arthur Espie', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2000, updated May 2002. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/128146/sources (accessed 4 June 2026).