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HUGH LOW STREET, IPOH: THE MAN BEHIND THE NAME, AND THE FIRST RUBBER TREES IN MALAYSIA THAT NOBODY WANTED
Sir Hugh Low spent nearly thirty years on Labuan, passed over for the top job. In 1877 he became British Resident of Perak, and the first rubber trees in Malaysia grew in his garden at Kuala Kangsar. For almost twenty years nobody wanted them. Then rubber changed Malaya, and Ipoh named Hugh Low Street after him.
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Sir Hugh Low spent nearly thirty years on Labuan, passed over for the top job. In 1877 he became British Resident of Perak, and the first rubber trees in Malaysia grew in his garden at Kuala Kangsar. For almost twenty years nobody wanted them. Then rubber changed Malaya, and Ipoh named Hugh Low Street after him.