Do you know any wealthy malaysian land owners who lived in Malaysia around the 1900s - 1930's?

Question

Im doing a report on Malaysia economy around that time. My friend told me of this very wealthy malaysian landowner who lived there around that time. He owned acres of lumber land and had up to 6 wives. Can you tell me the direct info or a site where i can find the info?

Answer 1

He would most likely have lived in Sandakan....

"In the mid-1930s, Sandakan's timber export reached the record figure of 180,000 cubic meters, making it the largest timber-exporting port of tropical wood in the world. At the height of the timber boom, Sandakan boasted that it had the highest concentration of millionaires anywhere on Earth."
http://www.answers.com/topic/sandakan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandakan