[2] After serving as an apprentice at Brown Phillips and Stewart, Evatt and Co., Federal Rubber Stamp and Co, and Frankel Brothers, he went to Ipoh to assist his father in his tin and rubber companies.
He held offices in several minor clubs and associations in Ipoh.
[3] From 1931 to 1933, he served as the honorary general secretary of the Perak Mining and Planting Association.
[2] He was conferred the OBE in 1941 and appointed to the Perak State Council.
[3] He resigned from the governing council and as a member of the Perak Chinese Welfare Association in 1952.