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Towkay Chung Kit Liau
Born and educated in Mei Xian, Guandong, China, Kit Liau came to Malaya towards the end of the 19th century and soon started a tin mine together with some friends. A well known and well liked person he was a generous man who never failed to give a helping hand to his friends and acquaintances from China. In 1900 he got together with the prominent Towkays Yau Tet Shin and Lee Tong Shen and together they founded the Perak Ka Yin Association in Ipoh. In 1902. Two years later, the same three Towkays then founded the Selangor Ka Yin Association.
Typical of the Towkays of that time, Chung Kit Liau was a great philanthropist who never forgot his roots in Mei Xian and the poverty he had left behind. He therefore helped the needy people there and funded many infrastructure improvements in and around his ancestral village in China.
Kit Liau also remembered those other Chinese who returned to their village from time to time and founded a Lodge House in Mei Zhou, close to Mei Xian, to provide free accommodation for Overseas Chinese visiting the area. The Lodge House was named Jia-Au-Tai-Hou.
To read more about the Perak Ka Yin Association, click here.
To read more about Towkay Lee Tong Shen, click here.
To read more about Towkay Yau Tet Shin, click here.