 Dala Modu became the local agent to the European firm of Macaulay and Babington in 1826.The European agent of that Company, Kenneth Macaulay, was a close associate of Dala Modu when he acted as governor in that year.Modu organised the felling and processing of timber for the company from his base at Madina on the Bullom Shore, where he had lived since 1806.