Lim Nee Soon (b. 12 November, 1879 Singapore – d. 20 March 1936, Shanghai, China), planter and general merchant. Educated in Singapore, on completion of his studies, he worked for various organizations until 1911 when he founded his own company, Lim Nee Soon & Co. A rubber and pineapple planter and rubber factory owner, his businesses soon were a booming success. He was one of the pioneers of rubber planting along with Tan Chor Nam (1884-1971), Lim Boon Keng (Dr) (1869-1957), and Tan Chay Yan (1871-1916). He was consultant to other rubber estate owners, and played an important role in the development of rubber plantations in Nee Soon. His big investments in the pineapple industry won him the nickname Pineapple King. He was a generous charitable benefactor with a
keen interest in social and community matters. A respected community leader and, one of the most influential businessmen of the day, he was made a Justice of the Peace (1925).
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Very interesting article. I believe he did not serve on the committee of Raffles College and St. Andrews Mission Hospital, as he wrote to the newspaper saying this in his letter published in your link below.
http://newspapers.nl.sg/Digitised/Article.aspx?articleid=straitstimes19350901.2.47&sessionid=bb86ae5907d145189f635854a92e4a18&keyword=lim+nee+soon
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Hi,
Thanks for highlighting this piece of information. I looked up the publications, Who’s Who in Malaya, 1918 and Who’s Who in Malaya, 1925, both of which contain a brief write-up on Lim Nee Soon. Both entries do not mention Lim Nee Soon’s appointment on the committee of Raffles Colleage and St. Andrew’s Mission Hospital.
I will amend the article and remove this from the article.
The information in question appears in Song Ong Siang’s One Hundred Years’ History of Chinese in Singapore, which was published in 1923. Subsequent writers probably derived their information from Song’s work.