SIR GODFREY BARING, Bt., Chairman of organizathe Committee of Management, and Mr. George F. Shee, M.A., Secretary of the Institution, have each been presented by H.M. the King of Norway with the Gold Medal of the Norwegian Life-boat Society in recognition of their services in connexion with the organization of the International Life-boat Conference in London on July 1st and 2nd, 1924. The presentations were made at a luncheon on 1st December by His Excellency Mr. P. B. Vogt, the Norwegian Minister.