Archive / Papers / Barlow family: Box 74

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Papers of Henry Sackville Barlow

  1. 74/1: Barlow Boustead Estates Agency subject files including miscellaneous reports,
    Malaysianisation, Bumiputra participation, reorganisation and disposal, 12 AUG 1974 – 19 OCT 1979
    Comprising:

    • correspondence and papers relating to negotiations over Bumiputra participation in Barlow
      Boustead Estates Agency, with the Bank Negara Malaysia;
    • concerning purchase of shares by The Pilgrim Trust
      (Tabong Haji), the Armed Forces Welfare Fund (Tabong Angkatan Tentera) and the Federal Land Development
      Authority (FELDA).
  2. 74/2: Barlow Boustead Estates Agency subject files including miscellaneous reports,
    Malaysianisation, Bumiputra participation, reorganisation and disposal, 1974-1981.
    Comprising:

    • news cuttings, reports and papers relating to the Malaysian New Economic Plan and its
      implications for foreign investors/foreign owned companies;
    • including circulars and papers sent to Henry S.
      Barlow by the Malaysian International Chamber of Commerce and Chartered Merchant Bankers Malaysian Bhd;
    • speech by John K. Barlow, chairman of the Rubber Growers’ Association, at the annual general meeting,
      including support for the Malaysian government’s rubber price stabilisation scheme (26 JUN 1975);
    • draft
      memorandum (by Henry S. Barlow?) headed ‘The Plantation Industry (private sector) and Malaysian education –
      1975’, outlining the industry’s requirements;
    • also memorandum on ‘Estate Housing Standards’, in favour of
      improvements (28 JUN 1976);
    • address delivered by Sir Claude Fenner, Special Representative of the Rubber
      Growers’ Association, to the Malaysia and Singapore Commercial Association, London (2 JUN 1976);
    • Rubber
      Growers’ Association report on the Third Economic Plan (12 AUG 1976);
    • miscellaneous news cuttings.