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Biography: Moorhouse, William Sefton

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Graham M. Miller. 'Moorhouse, William Sefton', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 1990. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/127782/related-biographies (accessed 23 June 2026).