VICTOR  MELDER  SRI  LANKA LIBRARY 7, Benambra Street, Broadmeadows, Vic 3047, Australia. Telephone + 61 3 9309 4040 E-mail < melder.rjvm1935@bigpond.com > Web Site < www.vmsl-library.com > THOSE WISHING TO DONATE BOOKS & OTHER PUBLICATIONS TO THIS LIBRARY, THEY ARE MOST WELCOME. PLEASE CONTACT ME AT ABOVE ADDRESS, BY EMAIL OR TELEPHONE. Thank You.                                      ACQUISITIONS   FOR  THE  MONTH  OF  FEBRUARY  2024   BOOKS. Glenroy Township, A Local History of the Small Township of Glenroy by Judy Archer, 2024. MAGAZINES. The ‘Ceylankan’ – Journal of the Ceylon Society of Australia, Journal 105, Vol 27, No 1, February 2024. NEWSLETTERS Newsletter, Ceylonese Welfare Organisation Inc (CWO), Vol 42, Issue 1, January 2024.  ‘Silverscene’, Newsletter, Silver Fawn Club Inc, Qld, January / February 2024 ‘Thomiana’, Newsletter, S. Thomas’ College Old Boys Association, Australia Branch Inc, ...

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VICTOR  MELDER  SRI  LANKA LIBRARY VICTOR  MELDER  SRI  LANKA LIBRARY 7, Benambra Street, Broadmeadows, Vic 3047, Australia. Telephone + 61 3 9309 4040 E-mail < melder.rjvm1935@bigpond.com > Web Site < www.vmsl-library.com > THOSE WISHING TO DONATE BOOKS & OTHER PUBLICATIONS TO THIS LIBRARY, THEY ARE MOST WELCOME. PLEASE CONTACT ME AT ABOVE ADDRESS, BY EMAIL OR TELEPHONE. Thank You.                                        ACQUISITIONS   FOR  THE  MONTH  OF  JUNE  2023 BOOKS. Classic Steam by Patrick B. Whitehouse, 1980 An Illustrated Guide to the Buried Cities of Ceylon by Mrs R. Jones-Bateman, 1932. The Laws of  Cricket, 1980 code, Marylebone Cricket Club Sri Lanka by Rail by Royston Ellis, 1994. Proud & Prejudiced, The Story of the Burghers of Sri Lanka by Rodney Ferdinands, 1995. The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Steam & Rail  by Colin Garratt & Max Wade-Matthews, 1998. A History of the Sri Lanka Government Railway, B.D. Rampala Felicitation Volume by L.S.de Silva ...

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  VICTOR  MELDER  SRI  LANKA LIBRARY 7, Benambra Street, Broadmeadows, Vic 3047, Australia. Telephone + 61 3 9309 4040 E-mail < melder.rjvm1935@bigpond.com > Web Site < www.vmsl-library.com > THOSE WISHING TO DONATE BOOKS & OTHER PUBLICATIONS TO THIS LIBRARY, PLEASE CONTACT ME AT ABOVE ADDRESS, BY EMAIL OR TELEPHONE. Thank You.                                ACQUISITIONS   FOR  THE  MONTH  OF  NOVEMBER  2019 BOOKS The History of Royal College, 2019 (Donated by Senaka Weeraratne, Colombo 5, Sri Lanka)  Lions of Sri Lanka, Cricket – An Island Passion, Featuring the 30 Greatest Cricketers, LMD Publication, May 2019 (Donated by Roland de Silva, Media Services (Pvt) Ltd, LMD, Colombo 5, Sri Lanka) Cultures of the World: Sri Lanka by Nanda Pethiyagoda Wanasundera, 2002 Sri Lanka, a Travel Survival Kit by Tony Wheeler, 1982. Tamil Tigress by Derek Bartholomeusz, 1997. Island of a Thousand Mirrors, by Nayomi Munaweera, 2012. (No’s 3 – 6, Donated by Cuthbert Lethbridge, ...

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VICTOR  MELDER  SRI  LANKA LIBRARY 7, Benambra Street, Broadmeadows, Vic 3047, Australia. Telephone + 61 3 9309 4040 E-mail < melder.rjvm1935@bigpond.com > Web Site < www.vmsl-library.com > THOSE WISHING TO DONATE BOOKS & OTHER PUBLICATIONS TO THIS LIBRARY, PLEASE CONTACT ME AT ABOVE ADDRESS, BY EMAIL OR TELEPHONE. Thank You.                                ACQUISITIONS   FOR  THE  MONTH  OF  JUNE  2019   BOOKS Cab Forward 4294, Southern Pacific Railroad’s Signature Locomotive by David N. Anderson, et al, 2018 (Donated by Udaya Peeligama, Baulkham Hills, NSW) The Penguin Book of Hell, edited by Scott. G. Bruce, 2018 (Donated by Hemal Gurusinghe, Chelsea Heights, Vic) Fond Reminiscence, A Memoir by Sheila De Zoysa, 2019  (Donated by the Author, Colombo 5, Sri Lanka) Legends All, ‘First’ in Sport in Sri Lanka, by Asoka Goonetilleke, 2016 A Fiery Finale, Memories, Chronicles, Essays by Tissa Devendra, 2014 Those Were the Days by P. G. Punchihewa, Reprint 2016 The ...

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    VICTOR MELDER SRI LANKA LIBRARY – ACQUISITIONS FOR THE MONTH OF MAY 2019 7, Benambra Street, Broadmeadows, Vic 3047, Australia. Telephone + 61 3 9309 4040 E-mail < melder.rjvm1935@bigpond.com > Web Site < www.vmsl-library.com >     THOSE WISHING TO DONATE BOOKS & OTHER PUBLICATIONS TO THIS LIBRARY, PLEASE CONTACT ME AT ABOVE ADDRESS, BY EMAIL OR TELEPHONE. Thank You.   BOOKS  Tides of Violence: Mapping the Sri Lankan Conflict from 1983 to 2009, May 2019 – Public Interest Advocacy Centre, Sydney, NSW 2000. (Donated by Hemal Gurusinghe, Chelsea Heights, Vic)  ‘Viva Italia’, An Introduction to Basic Italian with Opening Exercises in English & Sinhala by Alex Van Arkadie, 2019  (Donated by the Author, Rome, Italy)   Miracles Attributed to Ven. Fr Joseph Vaz, & Pastoral Letters, 1987   The Jeweled Isle, Art from Sri Lanka by R.Brown and et al, et al (Donated by Michael Roberts, Adelaide, SA)                                 CORRECTION (Title) – BOOKS, ...

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VICTOR  MELDER  SRI  LANKA LIBRARY 7, Benambra Street, Broadmeadows, Vic 3047, Australia. Telephone + 61 3 9309 4040 E-mail < melder.rjvm1935@bigpond.com > Web Site < www.vmsl-library.com > THOSE WISHING TO DONATE BOOKS & OTHER PUBLICATIONS TO THIS LIBRARY, PLEASE CONTACT ME AT ABOVE ADDRESS, BY EMAIL OR TELEPHONE. Thank You.                                ACQUISITIONS   FOR  THE  MONTH  OF  APRIL  2019 BOOKS Song of the Sun God by Shankari Chandran, 2017 (Donated by the Author, Sydney, NSW) They Call Him Ken, The Life & Times of a Corporate Colossus by Savithri Rodrigo, 2017 Riding the Zeitgeist, The Hemal Amarasuriya Story by Savithri Rodrigo, 2018 (Donated by the Author, Dehiwela, Sri Lanka)      MAGAZINES Explore Sri Lanka, Vol 32, No 10, March 2019  (Donated by Kevin Melder. Dalkeith, WA) Hi!! – The Society Magazine, Sri Lanka, Series 17, Vol 1, 2019. NEWSLETTERS. “Silverscene” – Newsletter Silver Fawn Club, Qld, March/April 2019 issue. “Outreach” Newsletter – ...

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