AIR RACE ECHO.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 179, 1 August 1939, Page 5

AIR RACE ECHO.

EDWARDES RETIRES. LEAVES £2,000,000 LONDON HOTEL i WIFE'S HEALTH TRIP. (Special.—By Air Mail.) LOXDO-V, July 8. Sixty-three-year-old Arthur Octavine Edwardes, owner of the aeroplane in which Scott and Black won the Melbourne Air Race, retired this week from the chairmanship and manising directorship of Graveiwr Hou*e. Hie thousand-roomed luxury hotel in Park Lane. London. He is Wving London because his wife, the C'mmiw Hele.ie Kdwardes. must spend seven months a year in South Africa, oil medical advic?. Hi* la>t official duty wa« :<- appoint ■>■•»- |vear-oW Albert Henry .lone-, who was [his office boy 20 years eg", t<. be managing director in his stead. "Lucky" Edward.--, as he is called, made his first pi "fit- as a lad nf -ix. His father complimented him on some drawings. "Lucky" etraight-way offon-i to >o]\ six drawings a week at a halfpenny each, and clinched the deal. Edwardes left Dulwicli College at I") to earn 12/ n week in the draw in iz office «t a Westminster engineering firm. Ha >aved '2.1 a week "toward the day when I shall become a capitali-t."' At 23 he was the youngest engineer posted to the construction of 200 miles of railway through the jungles of Ceylon. He hae always given young men a chance, and this, is his. advice to young men who want to make inonev: —

"Make up your mind what you want to be. and concentrate on getting there. So many young men to-day say: 'Everri thing has been done.' That's ridiculous. jit has been said in every age. There :ire still abounding opportunities for fellows with guts. Likeliest sphere, to ray mind, is chemical engineering, because it is utilising the world's re><Viirre> in now fields. That opens up new possibilities."