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New Zealand Air Force Veteran and Metro Rotarian Turns 90
By Julie Ford
Posted on: Friday, June 4, 2010
Honolulu resident Alex Kane, a New Zealand Air Force veteran, international businessman and member of the Rotary Club of Metropolitan Honolulu, says 90 is the new 70. He turns 90 on June 19 where he will be honored.
Kane was raised in Gisborne, NZ, trained at Wigram Air Force Training Center in Christchurch and flew Spitfires and Hurricanes for the RAF in England during World War II. He returned to New Zealand in 1945 to marry childhood sweetheart Eileen Mary Schollum of Kaiteratai and they had four children, all of whom reside in the United States.
Kane was an international airline captain for KLM Dutch Airlines throughout Europe and South America, and then for British Airways in Bierut, Lebanon. In a break between airline careers he and his brother Norman Kane created Kane & Kane Farmers Merchants on First Avenue in Tauranga , at which time he also joined Bay of Plenty's Rotary Club. He is revered by the Rotary community as an active member of Rotary International since 1952. He is now a member of Rotary Club of Metropolitan Honolulu.
The business activities of Alex Kane include representing New Zealand Overseas Trading Company to stimulate export sales from New Zealand to the USA throughout the 1970's , and he formed the New Zealand/Hawaii Connection Programme wherein he represented successfully many NZ companies in Hawaii. He also won the New Zealand Export Award of 1979 for PKR (Pearson Knowles & Ryland) of Auckland. He was a member of the New Zealand Export Association.
After the loss of his beloved wife in 1967 Kane moved to Honolulu, Hawaii, where he established Kane International Corp., a building materials distributorship throughout the islands which is still an active part of the Honolulu business scene.
Kane's book, "Now That's Livin'!" won wide popularity in Hawaii and New Zealand and was used as a Rotary Foundation fundraiser to eliminate Polio throughout the world. It is available through private sales by contacting the Alex Kane Foundation at kanea006@hawaii.rr.com. It is a charming chronicle of New Zealand rural life, and tales from his flying career.
New Zealand Air Force Veteran and Metro Rotarian Turns 90
By Julie Ford
Posted on: Friday, June 4, 2010
Honolulu resident Alex Kane, a New Zealand Air Force veteran, international businessman and member of the Rotary Club of Metropolitan Honolulu, says 90 is the new 70. He turns 90 on June 19 where he will be honored.
Kane was raised in Gisborne, NZ, trained at Wigram Air Force Training Center in Christchurch and flew Spitfires and Hurricanes for the RAF in England during World War II. He returned to New Zealand in 1945 to marry childhood sweetheart Eileen Mary Schollum of Kaiteratai and they had four children, all of whom reside in the United States.
Kane was an international airline captain for KLM Dutch Airlines throughout Europe and South America, and then for British Airways in Bierut, Lebanon. In a break between airline careers he and his brother Norman Kane created Kane & Kane Farmers Merchants on First Avenue in Tauranga , at which time he also joined Bay of Plenty's Rotary Club. He is revered by the Rotary community as an active member of Rotary International since 1952. He is now a member of Rotary Club of Metropolitan Honolulu.
The business activities of Alex Kane include representing New Zealand Overseas Trading Company to stimulate export sales from New Zealand to the USA throughout the 1970's , and he formed the New Zealand/Hawaii Connection Programme wherein he represented successfully many NZ companies in Hawaii. He also won the New Zealand Export Award of 1979 for PKR (Pearson Knowles & Ryland) of Auckland. He was a member of the New Zealand Export Association.
After the loss of his beloved wife in 1967 Kane moved to Honolulu, Hawaii, where he established Kane International Corp., a building materials distributorship throughout the islands which is still an active part of the Honolulu business scene.
Kane's book, "Now That's Livin'!" won wide popularity in Hawaii and New Zealand and was used as a Rotary Foundation fundraiser to eliminate Polio throughout the world. It is available through private sales by contacting the Alex Kane Foundation at kanea006@hawaii.rr.com. It is a charming chronicle of New Zealand rural life, and tales from his flying career.
