I was riding quite high as Lee Kuan Yew’s friend and admirer. And [Goh] Keng Swee was my very close friend and we were co-operating together at the Ministry of Finance. I had very little contact with Chin Siong and Fong. I had much more contact with Woodhull with whom I had almost daily contact when he was Political Secretary at the Ministry of Health. Much more than with Chin Siong and others who were in my own ministry.”
1959
"I was offered this job by Keng Swee when I went to see him. He said, 'Your duty is to find out what are the resources that this country has and put up a scheme by which the Industrial Promotion Board will seek foreign investment.' Later the Industrial Promotion Board...
Lim Chin Siong, Devan, Woodhull, Fong and James Puthucheary in the Legislative Assembly, 1959.
James attended the United Nations Seminar on Management of Public Industrial Enterprises in New Delhi on behalf of Singapore and the Borneo Territories.
1960
"While working on the Four Year Plan with Goh Keng Swee and Hon Sui Sen we had no disagreements. There were only 4 of us that worked on it really and we did a really good job." "I set up a little unit with Heng Hong Ho and started working...
Minister of Finance Dr Goh Keng Swee addressing the first of a series of economic co-operation talks to set up a "limited Common Market" with delegation led by Minister for Commerce and Industry of Federation of Malaya Mohamed Khir bin Johari (seated, second from left). Seated on the left is...
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$65 million Japanese oil refinery at Tanjong Berlayer. To the left of James is Low Por Tuck and Goh Keng Swee