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Biography: Porter, Thomas William

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J. A. B. Crawford. 'Porter, Thomas William', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 1993. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/128147/related-biographies (accessed 27 June 2026).