HE CHOSE THE MARINES

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 93, 16 October 1943, Page 8

HE CHOSE THE MARINES

David Edward Rickenbacker, 18----year-old son of Lieutenant-Colonel Eddie Rickenbacker, the World War I ace, was sworn in as a private in the Marine Corps recently .at Madison Avenue, by Lieut.-Colonel Frank V. McKinless, says the "New York Times." Rickenbacker hopes to follow his father's example and qualify for aviation. . Last summer, during vacation from Admiral Farragut Academy, the boy worked as an apprentice "grease monkey" at La Guardia Field. He has chosen the marines because "the marines always are in action and in the thick of things." l

Island power system is £1,530,000, which yields a real surplus of £300,000. The sale of the increasing number of units which may be generated as the works come into operation will, Mr. Kissel calculates, return, with the full ten-year planned* development, £3,330,----000, and as the present return is £1,530,000, there will be an amount of £1,800,000 to meet additional charges of £1,560,000. He considers, further, that the saving of the' extremely; high cost of generation of power in the stream stations at Wellington and Auckland (over £350,000 a year) when the additional units at Waikaremqana and Arapuni are in operation, will more than meet new annual charges in respect of those Waikare and Arapuni extensions. His conclusion is given in these words: "Apart altogether, therefore, from the fact that an adequate supply of electricity for the North Island is an absolute necessity for the economic development thereof, the construction of the above power-house and transmission, etc., should be a sound financial investment for the Government." i