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Biography: Cockayne, Leonard

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A. D. Thomson. 'Cockayne, Leonard', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 1996. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/126420/related-biographies (accessed 11 June 2026).