RUBBER INDUSTRY
PLANS FOR RESTORATION IN MALAYA
Rec. 12.10 p.m. LONDON, Sept 9. One of Malaya's greatest rubber experts, Mr. R. O. Jenkins, while imprisoned in the Changi camp, drew up a blueprint for the rehabilitation of the Malayan rubber industry, reports the "Daily. Mail's" Singapore correspondent. Mr. Jenkins was the head of. a committee which was formed in Changi prison on the suggestion of Sir Shenton Thomas, soon after the fall of Singapore, to get the rubber industry working again after the Allies recaptured Singapore. The plan, which was drawn up at the risk of torture and death, allows that the Japanese have silt out 100,000 to 150,000 acres of rubber trees for the purpose of growing food and £25,000,000 will be required to restore the lost acres. Mr. Jenkins proposes that the British Government should meet the cost necessary to get the industry in full production. He believes that banks and financial concerns are too scared of synthetic rubber to risk the money.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 61, 10 September 1945, Page 6
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