My Grandparents on my fathers side was Walter and Mabel Hilliar. They played a very big part in my life and they had come to live in Pukemiro when my father was seven years old. Their original home was in Christchurch in Hampshire in the United Kingdom.

There were all sorts of stories told and my Grandfather had fought in the first world war, based in Ypres in Belgium. He was lucky to survive those days and from what I gathered ...