Hi Lyall, and a warm welcome to Rootschat and the New Zealand Board.

As we withhold the names of living and possibly-living persons from RootsChat for reasons of privacy could I ask you to please edit your post to remove the names of your parents.
Good luck with your research.
Spades
p.s. It might help if I told you how to edit your post: Click the Modify button on the right side of your first post, make the changes in the text box and click Save.