Thank you Julie!
I really appreciate your help... I'll check NZ, but as other family members did later go to Australia and not NZ, it is likely the city that is wrong and not the country. I have a letter into the genealogist who wrote of those letters... unfortunately its a decade plus since he wrote his book and this is very much a minor side family in the scheme of his study... got my fingers crossed.
Thanks again!
Lili