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"Mrs A. M. Stanton". The Chronicle (Adelaide). Vol. LXXII, no. 3, 822. South Australia. 19 December 1929. p. 20. Retrieved 19 July 2020 – via National Library of Australia. It is hard to substantiate the reference to a girls' school. Gertrude Halley was largely educated at the Presbyterian Ladies' College. The reference to the family's arrival after 1860 is hard to explain.