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Of Rubber Planting And Life In Kamuning - Part 2
This is the second part of this entry of Rubber Planting and Life in Kamuning, where the photographs in these two parts were generously donated by John Hembry.
The first photo from the left was taken at the Planters' tiffin party in Kedah in 1933 where the names of the people were as follows:
Standing: A.N. Other, Malonie, Jim Davis, Bob Chrystal, Walter Northcote-Green, Jonah Jones, Currie.
Sitting: Ralph Inder, Burroughs, Dan Wright, Boris Hembry, Galland.
The next photo is one of Boris Hembry (centre) outlining his ideas on squatter control to High Commissioner Sir Henry Gurney (right) at Changkat Kinding in October 1948. The third photo is one of Boris and Jean, his wife (standing in the centre of the photograph) talking to Anthony Eden (seated), the future British Prime Minister taken in Ipoh in 1949.
The fourth photograph is one of Robert (Bob) Chrystal, the manager of Kamuning Estate, Sungei Siput taken in 1940 where he was one of only 3 Europeans to have survived in the jungle throughout the Japanese Occupation.
The last two photographs are those of tin mining where the first one is of a an open cast tin mine in Kamuning Estate taken in 1949 and the second and final photo is that of a Tin dredger taken in 1949 in the Kinta Valley.
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