ALTHOUGH the progress of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild has not been as marked as we had hoped that it would be, nevertheless many Guilds have been formed, notably in the North of England and in the South-West of England; and wherever Guilds exist, there has been, during the past year, a noticeable increase in public interest in the work of the Institution. This is a most encouraging fact.

It should convince all Life-boat workers that—as the Committee of Management believed when the Guild was started three years ago—the best means at their disposal for presenting the Institution's claims lies in developing the Guild.

The following is a list of the existing Guilds. This list includes those Ladies' Auxiliaries which, in connection with a number of the larger Branches of the Institution, have for many years done splendid work for the Life-boat service; while those marked with an asterisk (*) are new Guilds formed in 1922:

Scotland.

Dundee, Helensburgh,* Largs.*

North of England District.

Alnwick, * Blackburn,* Blackpool, Bradford, Broomfleet, Castleford, Chorley, Clitheroe, Darlington, Dewsbury, Durham, Homsea, Hull, Leeds, Liverpool, Lytham, Manchester, Morecambe,* Nantwich, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Oldham, Rotherham, Scarborough, Sedbergh,* Southport, South Shields,* St. Anne's-on-Sea, Stockport, Sunderland,* Tyldesley,* Tyne- mouth, Whitley Bay and Monkseaton,* Whitehaven,* Wigan, York.* Isle, of Man. Castletown, Douglas, Port Erin, Ramsey,

Midlands District.

Birmingham, Coventry, Derby, Etwall, Gloucester, Grimsby, Knowle, Ludlow, Newark, Northampton, Nottingham, Solihull, Sutton-in-Ashfield. A Guild is also being formed at Scunthorpe.

South-Eastern District.

Seaford,* Colchester,* Eastbourne, Gt. Marlow,* Hastings and St. Leonards, High Wycombe,* Hove, Chatteris,* March,* Southend-on-Sea,* Tunbridge Wells,* Walton- on-Thames. Guilds are also being formed at Bexhill, Bognor, Canterbury, Dover, and Windsor.

South. Western District.

Andover, Basingstoke, Bath, Brixham, Bude, Cowes, Devizes, Exmouth, Falmouth, Lyme Regis, Minehead, Newport,* Oxford,* Plymouth, Poole (Bournemouth), Portsmouth, Reading, Ryde, Salisbury,* Sandown,* Shaftesbury,* Sidmouth, Southampton, Swindon, Taunton, Torquay, Trowbridge,* Ventnor, Weymouth, Winchester. Guilds are also being formed at Falmouth, Newton Abbot, and Taunton.

Wales.

Aberystwyth, Anglesey,* Barmouth, Cardiff, Holyhead, Laugharne, Llandudno,* Rhyl,* South Carnarvonshire,* Swansea.

Ireland.

Belfast, Dublin.

London.

In addition to these Guilds, between 350 and 400 members have been en- rolled in Greater London, and are working for the Institution in connection with the different Branches in that area.

New Branches of the Institution.

Besides the Guilds, a number of new Branches of the Institution were formed during 1922. In several cases the formation of the Guild led to the formation of a Branch, and for this reason some of the names in the following list are repeated from the list just given :

Scotland.

Kirkwall (Orkney) and Lerwick (Shetland).

North of England District.

Adlington, Alnwick, Ashton-in-Makerfield, Broomfleet, Burnley, Carnforth, Clitheroe, Colne, Congleton, Dalton-in-Furness, Farnworth, Leigh, Mytholmroyd, Mossley, Nantwich, Newton - le - Willows, Penmaenmawr, Penrith, Prestatyn, Ramsbottom, Rawtenstall, Rishton, Sedbergh, Spenborough, Tyldesley, Turton, Diversion, Whaley Bridge, West houghton.

Greater London District.

Bexley, Brentford, Chingford, Hendon, Highgate, Kensington, Leyton, Peckham, Sidcup, Southall, Teddington and Hampton Wick, Walthamstow.

South-Eastern District.

Chatteris and March.

South-Western District Chippenham.

Altogether, two new Branches were formed in Scotland in 1922; 23 in the North of England ; 12 in London ; and 3 in the South of England. This extension of the permanent organisation of the Institution is especially encouraging at the present time, when the cost of providing and maintaining the Life-boat Service is greater than it has ever been in the past, and when the Committee feel that the surest way of raising the increased revenue required is, not by imitating the example of those charities which have adopted what have been well described as " shock tactics," but by quiet and steady work which aims at increasing the number of regular subscribers to the Institution.