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Ladies & Gentlemen; A warm welcome to all of you for the Annual General Meeting of The Mascots. Read More
My friend Skandakumar, former Chairman of George Steuart’s and presently our ambassador in Australia, in a moving tribute to the late Wickrema de Alwis, has quite rightly described Wickrema as a “Gentleman Planter Par Excellence”. That is the best definition of Wickrema, in my mind one of those rare industry professionals who could be described as a “planter’s planter”. Read More
The curtain came down on the Life of Wickrema De Alwis on 20th October at four score and seven, leaving friends and family to reflect on the qualities of a man that made him not just one of the finest Tea Planters the Industry had known but also a true Gentleman in every sense of the word. Read More
Pooprassie Estate in Galaha (with a G), in the Pussellawa district, was originally a coffee plantation dating backing to the 1850s, and was famously sold to Sir Thomas Lipton in 1890. Read More
The plantation economy of Sri Lanka which sustained and developed the country through two and a half centuries of British rule, depended to a great extent on tea production. Read More
Not long after I left school (Royal College), in late February 1955, I was interviewed by the Managing Director of Bosanquet & Skrine Mr. Walter Berry and his assistant Alan Sharp Paul. Read More
Reminiscing on events leading to his becoming a Planter, Maithri said: “I was fortunate to be a member of a family of proprietary tea planters. My parents and uncles (William's) owned tea estates, in the Up Country and Low Country. As a child I was blessed with the opportunity of spending holidays at Tillyrie Estate in Dickoya, and play 'pullearr' with the kids, mostly children of estate workers.” Read More
It is a singular irony that Tea, unarguably the most healthy beverage in the world next to water, should share a common history with Opium, the curse of many societies across the world for several centuries, particularly China; equally ironical is that China, the original fount of tea, should have paid for Opium with Tea, reluctantly exchanging a significant and obvious benefit for an absolute evil. Read More
