Obituary

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30880, 13 October 1965, Page 5

Obituary

MR A. G. KEMP Mr A. G. Kemp, a former director of education in both the Gilbert and Ellice Islands and in Tonga and lately an inspector of schools in Christchurch, died this week. He was widely known as a vigorous educationist, particularly popular with young people. Mr Kemp began pupil teaching at New Brighton, trained at the Christchurch Teachers’ College, and then had sole charge schools at Waitewhera (Taranaki) and Rakobi (Nelson). He went to Fiij as a teacher in 1937. On (he outbreak of war he enlisted with the Fijian military forces and served in the Solomon Islands, rising to the rank of captain. After the war, on furlough, he coinpletd a degree at the University of Canterbury while serving as first asssitant master at the Shirley Intermediate School. On his return to the islands he was appointed director of education for the Gilbert and Ellice colony until 1954. He then held a similar position in Tonga until 1959. Mr Kemp was appointed an inspector in' Wellington in 1961 and transferred to Christchurch in 1962. Here he was responsible for the southern part of the Canterbury Education Board’s district, had oversight of the art and craft division, and also of education in the Chatham Islands, to which he had made one visit.