Having qualified in New Zealand, Kevin Ross came to England to specialise in surgery and passed the FRCS in 1960. He then returned to Hutt, where he was on the staff of the Department of Surgery, Hutt Hospital. He died in late 2000, survived by his wife, Phillippa.

Leo Lenaghan, the son of a farmer, was born in Creswick, Victoria, Australia, on 4 November 1930. He attended a primary school at Tourello, where the family had continuously farmed property since settling there in the early 1850's, and then St Patrick's College, Ballarat. He entered Melbourne Univer