GOH Tjoei Kok 吴水阁
Pioneers of Singapore,
Accession Number 000082
- Oral History Centre
Source
- 11
Total Reels
- Tan Beng Luan
Interviewer
- 04:43:21
Total Running Time
- Hokkien
Language
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Reel/Disc 2 of 11
Metadata
- 31 Jul 1981
Recording Date
- 00:27:47
Running Time
- MP3
Format
- For background information only
Conditions Governing Access
Synopsis
Working life in textile shop. Returned to China due to ill health. Back to farming and later started a sundry goods business with his brothers. His business techniques differed from elder brother's old fashioned methods. Business stopped because of looting by bandits. Again went abroad to Samarunda in Borneo. Worked for a clansman, in sundry goods and local produce business.
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Reel/Disc 3 of 11
Metadata
- 31 Jul 1981
Recording Date
- 00:27:53
Running Time
- MP3
Format
- For background information only
Conditions Governing Access
Synopsis
His work as a shop assistant. Giving advice to labourers to speed up their work. Promoted to do accounts and later to be branch manager. Gained knowledge of business methods and organisation through reading magazines and newspapers. Returned to China to get married. Came back to Sumatra to assist his second elder brother in his sundry goods business.
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Reel/Disc 4 of 11
Metadata
- 31 Jul 1981
Recording Date
- 00:27:53
Running Time
- MP3
Format
- For background information only
Conditions Governing Access
Synopsis
Took over sundry goods business after death of second elder brother. Later branched out to start rubber business. How he became a whole-sale rubber dealer. Started a rubber mill with friends. Exported mill product to America and Europe. Organisation in his rubber mill business.
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Reel/Disc 5 of 11
Metadata
- 7 Aug 1981
Recording Date
- 00:27:51
Running Time
- MP3
Format
- For background information only
Conditions Governing Access
Synopsis
Western methods of management used in rubber mill. Drawbacks of traditional Chinese system. Progress in mill business. Closed down mill during Japanese Occupation. Moved to countryside to do farming. Reowned business after Japanese surrender. Experienced difficulties in operating mill especially after Indonesia's independence. Had to wind up rubber business voluntarily.
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