LORD McGOWAN'S VISIT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 45, 23 February 1937, Page 9

LORD McGOWAN'S VISIT.

LEADER IN INDUSTRY.

(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, this Lord McGowan, chairman and mjpaging director of Imperial Chemical Industries, is expected to arrive in Wellington to-day. He is a busitip" man in the strictest and most modem sense of the word and he comes to New Zealand on business. Unlike so many Glasgow boys Lord McGowan did aot at first seek his fortune in London, but thought (and wiselyj' as it turned out) that Edin- ' burgh for all its "pride and poverty" might be best for his ambition. He began at 5/ a week; he is now head of one of the greatest examples of business rationalisation that the world has ever seen. He is reported to be a millionaire twice over. His interests through Imperial Chemical Industries alone are represented in practically every country in the world. He is a bank director, is actively associated as director with the rrreat General Motors organisation, and | is as prominent a personage in big busil ness in the United States as in Great ! Britain. j He is a "big man" in the msiness j «ense and has always been associated | with big men in industry, commerce and 'finance. He believes in seeing things for himself as well as perusing and analysing reports of the multifarious enterprises with he is directly aAickttd) heut buflEMQU&pt visits to nXftflUfttifte- j? New ' I kjluiMy himself.