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Post by groundhog on Sept 5, 2014 22:49:35 GMT 12
PS, quite a few of his relatives are still here in New Zealand, but not in Northland. Auckland, The Bay of Plenty, Coromandel, Waiheke Island, Wellington, Christchurch and Te Awamutu are among the places we have dispersed to.
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Post by Andy Wright on Sept 9, 2014 10:59:38 GMT 12
Hi James
Thanks for taking the time to post. Are you in touch with Mr Peel (the man who was visiting relatives in NZ and Aus)?
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Post by fwx on Sept 10, 2014 11:33:50 GMT 12
Can confirm that at least one of his relatives is still up North!
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Post by justin67 on Mar 14, 2015 23:09:36 GMT 12
I never realised he was a Kiwi. He was a founding director of Agricultural Aviation (Ag-Av) in Queensland. This company still exits at Dalby run by Dave Boland. As early as 1950, Bill Kemp, Dick Young and Frank Denton had been involved in the idea of setting a up a company to dust and spray cotton in Eygpt and the Sudan. To gain some experience, Bill Kemp went to the United States dusting in the USA before going to Australia. Dick Young went on to work for Desert Locust Control and Fison Pest Control and then joined AgAv in 1955. The DH82A owned by the partnership was used in Egypt and then shipped to Australia. Bill Kemp left AgAv in 1956 to form his own company. In 1958 AgAv sold out to Crop Culture in England, the company of Jim McMahon and a couple of other guys. I'm Dave Boland's son. Dave knew Bill. He also had Craig, Dick Young's son working for him in the early nineties after leaving Jamaica working for his father spraying bananas for Crop Culture (overseas) Dave is still spraying to this day after learning to fly in 1959. Dave started working for AGAV in ethe early 70s and has been there ever since. Agav was partly owned by Crop Culture in England. You will find most of these pilots and part owners were ex Air Force, whether they be RAF, RCAF, RNZAF. Bill Kemp took the vegetable growing area of the Lockyer Valley between Brisbane and Toowoomba after a split and others mainly Mac Whitham (ex RAAF - I think) took the Darling Downs area to the west. |
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Post by isc on Mar 15, 2015 19:26:48 GMT 12
In 1961 I lived for a year at Awhitu on the Manakau Penicular, there were Kemps at the end of our road...Kemps rd. Don't know if that any use to anyone, but for what it's worth...
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Post by rhik on Apr 29, 2022 22:52:55 GMT 12
Hello I am William Kemp’s daughter in law. We have recently found some items of his.
Please can anyone identify this blazer? Thanks Rhiannon
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