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CEYLON SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA MELBOURNE CHAPTER – Bill Mackie presenting “Some History of an Australian Family in Colonial Ceylon”   Sunday 18 March 2018, 5.00pm Alvei Hall, 314 High Street Road, Mount Waverley for enquiries contact Hemal 0427 725 740 This is a story about 3 generations of an Australian family with links to Ceylon from 1909 to 1959. During this period their connections to Ceylon spanned the establishment and growth of the tea industry, right through the political and social changes that swept pre and post independence Ceylon. There were times of collaboration, interaction and innovation, where the origins of a multi-cultural Eastern- Western world emerged out of traditional Ceylon. Many different stories have been written and spoken of these times and this is another interesting chapter in that story, of how foreigners and locals interacted to shape and influence the emergence of a different Ceylon. We have all heard of Lionel Wendt and his famous photographs ...