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eLanka Newsletter – June 2nd edition – Sri Lankans in Australia Click here or on the image below to read this week’s elanka Newsletter Megha Wijewardane – NASA Junior Ambassador “BAILA, AS I LIKE IT” – By Des Kelly Hugh Aldons at 95- A Tribute by his nephew Roger – Hugh was and remains the ONLY ever Ceylon TRIPLE INTERNATIONAL at Cricket – Hockey and Rugby World In Union | The Old Joes’ Choir (Virtual Choir while in Self Isolation & Social Distancing) ARIANA’S GRAND-E GESTURE: By Joe Van Langenberg According to Matthew 2018 – Sinhala movie starring Jacqueline Fernandez & Alston Koch – Film by Chandran Rutnam | SRI LANKA NEWS (MAY 2020) – Compiled by Victor Melder Health & Views –June 2020 – 1st issue By Harold Gunatillake Dish Sri Lankan Street Food – Regional Sri Lankan lunch served on banana leaves..starting from 14th June The best of ...

Jun 7, 2020 Posted by In Articles, eLanka Newsletters Tagged , , Comments 0
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SRI LANKA NEWS (MAY  2020) – Compiled by Victor Melder Sri Lanka’s merchandize export earnings fell by 41.9 percent, in March 2020, as the spread of COVID-19, in the country, disrupted the production of merchandise, the Export Development Board said. According to the monthly exports statistics, the year-on-year export earnings fell to US$ 646 million from US$ 1.112 billion, recorded in March 2019. The apparel sector, being the largest contributor, has shown a 41 percent decline during the month of March 2020, compared to the same month, in the previous year. Some of the other sectors that have recorded a significant decline, during the same period, include Tea (-22%), Rubber Products (-15.7%), Coconut products (-14.2%), Spices (-36.5%), fruits and vegetable products (-17.4%), fish and fisheries products (-29%), etc. However, analysis at disaggregate level on Coconut Milk Powder, Defatted Coconut, certain Coconut Kernel Products, Coconut Shell Charcoal, Essential Oils, Oleoresins, Ginger, Lemon, Melon and ...

May 31, 2020 Posted by In Articles, Victor Melder Tagged , Comments 0
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    A MEMORY OF MURDER By Bernard vanCuylenburg From serial killers to celebrity victims, sensational murder cases tend to grab one’s collective imagination and just wont let go. In the past I wrote some articles about famous murder cases of English planters on the tea estates. The first was about the murder of Mr.John Frank Whitehouse, the Superintendent on Madampe Group Ratnapura in 1949 in the article titled “Tales from the Thotum”. The second, was the article “Murder at Midnight” which was about the murder of Mr.George Pope the Superintendent on Stellenberg Estate Pupuressa in 1941, and the third, “Murder around the Bend” was regarding  the murder of a young  Superintendent on Talgaswella Estate, Galle, Mr.Roger Blumer in 1939. In the first story titled TALES FROM THE THOTUM, I also briefly dealt with the murder of Mr.Geoffreys, the Superintendent on Kenilworth Estate Ginigathena by his chief clerk I believe in the late ...

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eLanka Newsletter: February 2020 1st edition: Sri Lankans in Australia Click here or on the image below to read this week’s elanka Newsletter NEW YEAR’S EVE DANCE “ORION, PERSONIFICATION OF ELVIS” – By Des Kelly Annual Golf tournament in memory of Julius Ferdinands Alston Koch to perform at Oscars ‘After Party’ COUNTING AND CRACKING WINS AUSTRALIA’S RICHEST LITERARY AWARD Governor General David Hurley welcomes Indian Women’s Cricket team – By Rajni Anand Luthra Is keto diet the best for diabetics – By Harold Gunatillake SRI LANKA NEWS (JANUARY 2020) – Compiled by Victor Melder Kindness in Action – By Oscar E V Fernando Click below for events ...

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  eLanka Newsletter: December 2019 2nd edition: Sri Lankans in Australia Click here or on the image below to read this week’s elanka Newsletter The Ceylon Society of Australia AGM and Social 2019 – By Sunil de Silva(Photos thanks to Mahal Selvadurai) “THE DRINK” – By Des Kelly DR HAROLD GUNATILLAKE – By – Agnes Thambynayagam Mega Consumer Tourism Promotion at Sri Lanka Food and Cultural Festival – 2019 in Sydney A true pride for Sri Lankan women SRI LANKA NEWS – (NOVEMBER 2019) – Compiled by Victor Melder. Dilmah Tea founder Merrill J Fernando to be awarded honorary doctorate by Massey University Do Sri Lankans & others living in tropical countries need calcium and vitamin D supplements? – by Harold Gunatillake TRUTH by Oscar E V Fernando Click below for events ...

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    MURDER AT MIDNIGHT – By Bernard VanCuylenburg In May 1941, the Nuwaraeliya district was rocked by the news of the dastardly murder of the Superintendent on Stellenberg Estate Pupuressa, Mr.George Pope. In an article which I wrote about ten years ago titled “Tales from the Thotum” I wrote about this crime in detail. I subsequently changed the title to “Marked for Murder”. His murder, the quick work by the police in arresting the accused, and the subsequent trial which followed which was heard by one of the most eminent judges of the time Justice Soertsz, made its way into criminal records as one of the most dramatic and brutal murders of the time. Seventy seven years later, the aftermath of this crime still casts a dark shadow particularly on Stellenberg estate, and its memory lives on in the minds of some retired labourers of an older generation as ...

Nov 20, 2019 Posted by In Articles, Bernard VanCuylenburg Tagged , , , Comments 0
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  OBITUARIES Compiled by Victor Melder (E & O.E.) (OCTOBER  2019) VAN STARREX – HANS ANTON, son of late Mr Hans Andreas Van Starrex and Gertrud Therese Van Starrex, in Sri Lanka. (Daily News, 1.10.2019) JURIANSZ – LORENZO (SHANNON), aged 21 years, tragically in Melbourne. (Contributed) AMBROSE – ANTHONY  (TONY), in Melbourne (Contributed) PIETERSZ- KENNETH  (KENNY), in Melbourne. (Contributed) MARCELINE – MARK, husband of Sonia, father of Dina, Anil, Nirmali, Zaneta and Sanayi, grandfather of Ashani, Nicolai, Camila, Marco and Marianna, great grandfather of Troy. Brother of Hedy and the late Frances, Greg, Annette, Bertha, Bernie, Billy and Hilary, in Sri Lanka. (Daily News, 2.10, 2019)   FOENANDER – OLGA  (nee Gerreyn), daughter of the late Joe & Nita Gerreyn. Wife of Gordon (Weenie), mother of Karen Foenander and Denise Greep, grandmother of Jake Greep. Sister of the late Crosby, Annesley, Flo, Doreen, Lucien, Genevieve, Rita, Stelmond, Trixie and of Phyllis, ...

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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  OCTOBER  2019 BOOKS Ivor Beven, ‘Fieldview’ and Beyond  by Joanne Russo, 2017 (Donated by Michael Roosmale-Cocq, Elanora, Qld) Kachchativu: and the Maritime Boundary of Sri Lanka by W. T. Jayasinghe, 2003  (Donated H. E:  W.P.S.Prasanna Gamage, Sri Lanka Ambassador to Vietnam) The Empire’s Other Anzacs, The Ceylon Planters Rifle Corps, by Lieutenant Colonel Neil. C. Smith, AM, 2014  MAGAZINES NEWSLETTERS. “Thorathuru”, News Magazine, Sri Lanka Association of New South Wales Inc , 2019 First Half issue Newsletter of the Ceylonese Welfare Organisation Inc (CWO), Vol 37, Issue 4, October 2019.   ...

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SRI LANKA NEWS – (AUGUST 2019) – Compiled by Victor Melder Non Infectious Diseases (NIDs) claim the lives of more than 100,000 persons in Sri Lanka annually. Of the 103,500 deaths reported, 10,000 succumbed due to diabetes, Health Ministry statistics indicates. Of adults in the country, 23.7% suffer from high blood cholesterol and/or are under medication for the disease. In terms of gender, 19.1% of adult males and 28.4% of female adults suffer from the condition, new research has revealed. Of those in the 40-69 age group, 9% face a 30% risk of being prone to heart diseases. Of the total adult population in the country, more than 90% suffer from at least one critical element of non contagious diseases, it has further come to light. Of this number, 73.5% suffer from one to two NIDs related critical factors, while 18.3% have three to five such elements, according to the ...

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  Click here or on the image below to read this week’s elanka Newsletter Designer label fashion is on show during Moocooboola “TO SERVE, WITH PRIDE”– BY DES KELLY Cricket: Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh 3rd ODI – Match Highlights – July 2019 – Sri Lanka won by 122 runs Wije Ariyaratne, The Humanitarian & Next Generation Educator Observations from our Lankan visit in June-July 2019 – By VAN ARKADIE, Alex Panacea for Global Distress by Ancient/Modern writers.- By Oscar E V Fernando SRI LANKA NEWS – JULY 2019 Compiled by Victor Melder. Colon Issues By Dr. harold Gunatillake The 2019 Ashes TV schedule Click below for events ...

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