Page 19 - Almarhum Sultan Abu Bakar
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Archive photo of gambier cubes drying in the sun [Right] while
a supervisor [wearing white top] oversees a worker
at a gambier farm in Johor in the 1800s
Hard work will definitely pay off. It was proven
by Sultan Abu Bakar that if someone puts
effort to achieve something, the person can
definitely achieve it. It can be seen when he
initiated policies and provided aids to ethnic
Chinese entrepreneurs to stimulate the
development of the state's agricultural
economy which was founded by Chinese
migrants from Southern China in the 1840s
