copra

Henry Chow - 01:23:09

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Henry Chow
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01:23:09

Henry Chow describes the extent of his business interests in 1975, and his business association with Julius Chan.

Henry Chow - 00:36:58

Interview: 
Henry Chow
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00:36:58

Henry Chow describes how his father re-established his trade store and plantation and purchased a boat and began to trade copra. He describes how he and his older brother were sent to school in Australia, flying on a DC3 via Finch Hatton, Lae, Port Moresby, Townsville and Brisbane before arriving in Sydney. He describes spending 1948 at De La Salle College before being transferred the next year to St Joseph's College.

Henry Chow - 00:14:07

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Henry Chow
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00:14:07

Henry Chow relates that his family had a trade store in Rabaul, and how his grandfather built a boat with a Japanese boat builder to run copra from the plantation to Rabaul.

Henry Chow - 00:11:45

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Henry Chow
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00:11:45

Henry Chow recalls how his grandfather was granted 100 hectares of land by the Germans on New Ireland which the family developed into a coconut and copra plantation.

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