P. AND O. CHAIRMAN

Evening Star, Issue 21628, 25 January 1934, Page 9

P. AND O. CHAIRMAN

THE HON. ALEXANDER SHAW ARRIVAL IN SYDNEY Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, January 24. The Hon. Alexander Shaw, chairman of the P. and O. Company, arrived in Sydney to-day by the liner Maloja. . He commented on the decline of British shipping and the menacing effects of foreign shipping subsidies, and added that the British Government was well aware of the danger, but had evolved no plans for its solution.. He intends to discuss Empire shipping with the Prime Ministers of Australia and New Zealand. He will be a prominent guest at the anniversary regatta and at a luncheon on Sydney Harbour aboard the flagship Maloja on Friday. _ He will then visit Brisbane and later New Zealand. Another distinguished visitor by the Maloja is the Earl of Wemyss, who is en route for a holiday in New Zealand and will sail by the Wanganella on Friday A NOTABLE FIGURE IN BRITISH SHIPPING The chairman of the P. and 0. Steam Navigation Company, the Hon. Alexander Shaw, his wife, Lady Margaret Shaw (a daughter of the late Earl of Inchcape), and their daughter, Miss Jean Shaw, arrived in Fremantle 'on January 16 on a visit to Australia and New Zealand. Mr Shaw is one of the leading figures in shipping circles in the British Empire, and he is also closely identified with other important financial corporations in England. After leaving Oxford, where he was president of the union in 1905, Mr Shaw was called to the Bar in 1903, and practised in the King’s Bench Division and at the Parliamentary Bar until the outbreak of war. He was gazetted to the Royal Marine Artillery, Howitzer Brigade, served in France throughout the battle of the . Somme, 1916, and was subsequently invalided home. He was then appojnted chairman of the special arbitration tribunal on women munition workers’ wages. From 1915 to 1923 he represented Kilmarnock in Parliament, and was a member of many Government committees and commissions. Since the war Mr Shaw has been engaged in business, in which connection he was for some years chairman of the Shipowners’ Parliamentary Committee, and in 1927 president of the Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom. He lias served on the Board of Trade Advisory Council, and is one of the two shipping experts on the Imperial Shipping Committee. He is chairman of the P. and 0. and British India Steam Navigation Companies, a director of the Bank of England, and was High Sheriff of the County of London, 1931. He has taken a prominent part in the public discussion on the question of war debts and reparations, and the economic, warfare against Great Britain by means of shipping subsidies.