1.
LS GUESTS TOWARDS CANNERY
0.03

2.
MS TUNKU AND CANNERY OFFICIALS TOWARDS CANNERY
0.05

3.
MS TRUCK-LOAD OF PINEAPPLES BEING UNLOADED ONTO CONVEYOR BELT
0.10

4.
MS WOMAN WORKERS CHOPPING OFF PINEAPPLE ENDS
0.14

5.
MS PINEAPPLE PUT INTO AUTOMATIC PEELING MACHINE
0.21

6.
MS ----- DITTO -----
0.25

7.
MS WOMAN WORKERS PLACE SLICED PINEAPPLES ONTO TRAYS
0.28

8.
MS WOMAN WORKERS DIVERTING TRAYS OF SLICED PINEAPPLES TO CANNING SECTION
0.33

9.
MS WOMAN CANNING SLICED PINEAPPLES (TWO SHOTS)
0.40

10.
MS CANNED PINEAPPLES ON TROLLEY
0.44

11.
MS WOMEN SORTING OUT CUBED PINEAPPLES FROM ANOTHER CONVEYOR BELT
0.49

12.
MS MAN ON MACHINE PUSHES DOWN STERILISED CUBED PINEAPPLES TO POT FILLED WITH SYRUP
0.56

13.
MS BOILER MACHINE
0.59

14.
MS WOMEN PLACE CANNED PINEAPPLES INTO STERILISING MACHINE
1.04

15.
MS STERILISED CANS OUT OF MACHINE AND WOMEN PLACE LIDS ON THEM
1.09

16.
MLS CANNED PINEAPPLES ROLL DOWN TO LABELLING SECTION
1.14

17.
MS WOMAN LABELLING CANNED PINEAPPLES
1.18



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Background: MALAYSIA'S FIRST NATIONAL PINEAPPLE CANNERY IN THE STATE OF JOHORE, SOUTHERN MALAYA, WAS OPENED BY THE MALAYSIAN PRIME MINISTER, TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN, YESTERDAY (TUESDAY). BUILT WITHIN THE SMALLGROWERS' AREA, IT HAD COST $5 MILLION MALAYSIAN ABOUT 425,000 POUNDS STERLING. THE CANNERY EMPLOYS MORE THAN 400 WORKERS RECRUITED FROM THE BANKS OF THE SMALLGROWERS.

THE CANNERY, ONE OF THE MOST MODERN IN THE WORLD, IS EQUIPPED WITH UP-TO-DATE PREPARATION AND PROCESSING MACHINERY -- MOST OF IT MADE IN AUSTRALIA. IT HOPES TO PROCESS 300 TONS OF RAW FRUIT A DAY. AT THE MOMENT, IT IS PROCESSING ABOUT 150 TONS A DAY.

THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A NATIONAL PINEAPPLE CANNERY WAS CONCEIVED DURING WHAT WAS GENERALLY DIFFICULT TIMES FOR THE ENTIRE PINEAPPLE INDUSTRY. FOR SOMETIME, RELATIONS BETWEEN CANNERS AND SMALLGROWERS HAD BEEN STEADILY DETERIORATING AND IN 1959, CULMINATED IN A CRISIS WHEN LARGE AMOUNTS OF SMALLGROWER FRUIT REMAINED UNSOLD.

MALAYSIA IS THE THIRD BIGGEST PINEAPPLE PRODUCING COUNTRY IN THE WORLD; AND CANNED PINEAPPLES ARE BEING SHIPPED TO ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD, INCLUDING SUCH COUNTRIES AS BRITAIN, THE EUROPEAN CONTINENT, THE UNITED STATES, CANADA, THE MIDDLE EAST, NEW ZEALAND AND JAPAN.