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LIM Hoo Hong 林富凤 Chinese Dialect Groups, Accession Number 000806


  • Oral History Centre
    Source
  • 3
    Total Reels
  • Tan Beng Luan
    Interviewer
  • 01:20:14
    Total Running Time
  • Hokkien
    Language


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Metadata

  • 18 Aug 1987
    Recording Date
  • 00:31:12
    Running Time
  • MP3
    Format
  • Open Access
    Conditions Governing Access

Synopsis

Father came to Hua Soon Pah Village in Sembawang in 1889. Father's reasons for migration. Siblings worked as rubber tappers. Family's financial difficulties. Mother and children worked for Bukit Sembawang Rubber Company Ltd. He worked in Thong Aik Rubber Factory in 1923. Working conditions there. As rubber tapper again when rubber price had gone up. Sold fish at Beach Road when rubber prices were poor.

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