MALAYA SHOULD BE PRODUCING FULL QUOTA OF TIN SOON
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, July 16. Sir John Bagnall, former chairman and managing director of the Straits Trading Company, a large Singapore tin-smelting concern, said on arrival in Wellington yesterday that within two or three years Malaya should again be producing her pre-war quota of tin. It would take all that time to import sufficient Chinese and Indian labour to. cope with the demand. The Malays did not like the hard work connected with the production of tin. The Japanese had not actually sabotaged the machines, but many had been worked to a standstill and had to be replaced. , Sir John said Singapore was 1 at present in the throes of inflation.
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Evening Star, Issue 26155, 17 July 1947, Page 5
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