British Malaya · event 5 of 7

1922

Rubber. The Stevenson restriction scheme regulates output across British Malaya, by then supplying about half the world’s natural rubber. Tin built the city; rubber built the country, and both were worked by labour recruited in enormous numbers from China and South India.

The British Malaya era

  1. 1896
  2. 1897
  3. 1909
  4. 1910
  5. 1922
  6. 1930
  7. 1939

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