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despatched by the Government of Ceylon is prepared
to supply all information bearing on trade, and to book
orders to be executed in Ceylon. Adjoining are the clerks’
offices and the rooms of the two Assistant Commissioners
for Ceylon : Mr. R. Huyshe ZIliot, ex-Chairman of the
District Planters’ Association, Dikoya, and Mr. P. E. Pieris,
a Sinhalese and a member of the Civil Service of Ceylon.
All information regarding the various articles shown will
be gladly supplied here.
Upstairs are the rooms of the Commissioner-General, Mr.
Stanley Bois, an ex-Member of the Legislative Council of
Ceylon, and ex-Chairman of the Ceylon Chamber of
Commerce.
The door panels of red and yellow and black represent
Sinhalese painting untouched by the Western influences
which show themselves in the friezes depicting various
birth stories of the Buddha, all the work of Sinhalese artists.
Their carving as found in the Ceylon temples is also shown in
the images of Buddha in the three attitudes of admonition,
meditation, and repose, and in the images of female deities
exhibited by Mr. W. Chapman Dias.
The various races of Ceylon are represented by life-sized
models in clay, the property of the Government of Ceylon.
They include a Buddhist priest with shaven head and yellow
robes, carrying his alms bowl in his hand ; Sinhalese chiefs
of the hill- and low-country; a Vedda, an aborigine of
Ceylon, and a Veddee, his wife ; a Sinhalese bride of the
seventeenth century; a Chetty, one of a small but high
caste from India—whose gorgeous gold-worked costume is
exhibited separately—all the work of a local artist, Mr.
R. G. Andriesz, who also exhibits the model of a * basket
woman” or itinerant vendor of vegetables. Several small
models furnished by the Colombo Museum and the Government
 Agent of Jaffna will be found of interest.
Charts will be found on the walls, graphically illustrating
the fluctuations in and expansion of the trade of the Island.
The handsome model of the Colombo Harbour (see Chapter
L., “ Ceylon and its Administration”), made to scale by Mr.
Steyn under the supervision of the Resident Engineer of
the Harbour Works, is shown by the Ceylon Government.
Ceylon scenery and life are amply illustrated by the magnificent
 series of photographs supplied by Messrs. Skeen
&amp; Co., Plité &amp; Co., the Colombo Apothecaries’ Co., Ltd., and
Mr. A. W. Andrée, the chief professional photographers in
Ceylon. Mr. H. C. P. Bell, C.C.S., Mr. F. W. Bois, Mr. H. W.
Cave, and Mr. W. D. Bosanquet also show views of great
archaeological and general interest.