Hua Hung Ice Factory : GRandfather's Delima

My Grandfather who owned the Hua Hung Ice Factory and also three motor launches was forced to sell two of  motor launches to the Japanese.  He was too scared to refuse and he was flatly just given 300 Japanese dollars which was really below cost.

This is just a photo to show what kind of wooden motor launch my grandfather had. His was a double decker, and much smaller than this one. He had one for passengers and two for carrying goods and passengers.

Fearing the worst for his family, he moved all his children to Binatang where they could live further away from the Japanese soldiers and there was more food resources from the farm grandfather and his brother owned about 3 miles inland.

Grandfather was in luck because a Foochow man wanted to move away from Sibu and he was willing to accept the 300 Japanese dollars for his one land title. This man could have other land titles but my grandfather would never know. In later years this man probably made a lot of money upriver.

The land he bought with the Banana money was later on, more than half a century later actually was worth a few millions. My uncles, cousins and my grandmother protitted handsomely from the sale.

Many people believed that my grandfather was blessing his family long after he passed away in 1963.

Blessings from a far sighted father who did not want to waste any money but must have solid property. He was a very wise man.