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Papers of Henry Sackville Barlow

1. 71/1: Business correspondence and papers, as financial director/joint managing director, Barlow Boustead Estates Agency Ltd/Sdn Bhd. – 30 JUN 1975 – 31 DEC 1976. Comprising:
   • minutes of monthly directors’ meetings, trial balances and estimates, draft and final accounts, correspondence and papers, of Henry S. Barlow, joint managing director including;
   • memorandum on ‘The Boustead Group’, concerning likelihood that Boustead Holdings Bhd would offer an exchange of shares in that company to Bumiputra shareholders of Barlow Boustead Estates Agency, making the Agency a subsidiary of Boustead Holdings Bhd (2 AUG).
2. 71/2: Business correspondence and papers, as financial director/joint managing director, Barlow Boustead Estates Agency Ltd/Sdn Bhd. – 18 JAN – 21 DEC 1979.Comprising:
   • minutes of monthly directors’ meetings, trial balances, estimates of group profits, draft accounts, correspondence and papers, of Henry S. Barlow, joint managing director including;
   • letter from Gordon S. MacDonald, joint managing director, relating to proposed merger of Bradwall, Chersonese, Muar River and Sungei Krian plantation companies into Barlow Holdings Ltd (16 MAY);
   • memorandum on ‘The Future of Malaysian Estates’, with reference to the fourth Malaysian economic plan (c. 1979, see end of file).
3. 71/3: Business correspondence and papers, as financial director/joint managing director, Barlow Boustead Estates Agency Ltd/Sdn Bhd. – 31 JAN – 31 DEC 1980.Comprising:
   • minutes of monthly directors’ meetings, trial balances, draft/final accounts, correspondence and papers, of Henry S. Barlow, joint managing director including;
   • correspondence relating to terms and conditions of staff of Barlow Holdings Ltd (26 FEB, 20 MAR);
   • Highlands Research Unit memorandum and research papers on feasibility of establishing a coconut seed garden on Pulai Bai, an island in Sandakan Bay, Sabah (3 MAY and encl.);
   • memorandum on proposed Philippines agricultural advisory project (14 MAY);
   • directors’ circular headed ‘Joint venture management company in the Philippines’ (18 AUG).