BY the kindness of the Lord Mayor of London (Colonel Sir Alfred Louis Bower) a meeting was held at the Mansion House, on 13th January, at which the Mayors, Mayoresses and Town Clerks of the London Boroughs were invited to meet the Committee of Management of the Institution and the London Women's Committee, and to hear an address from Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., Chairman of the Committee of Management.

Sir Godfrey Baring said that in the past ten years the annual contributions from Greater London had risen from £8,300 to £21,795, of which sum £10,600 came from the city. Grateful as the Institution was for this help, it felt that it was still not all that London, with its population of something like 8,000,000, should do for the Life-boat cause. Sir Godfrey Baring then compared London's contribution in 1924 with those received from Manchester (a great industrial city and seaport), Oxford (an inland city with no great industries) and Brightlingsea (a village on the coast). The comparison showed that Manchester contributed £16,268 from its population of 1,100,000 ; Oxford and District £1,100 from its population of 147,497 ; Brightlingsea £148 from its population of 4,500, Manchester's contribution was equal to 3%d. per head, Oxford's to If a!, a head and Brightlingsea's to 7f i a head.

The actual cost of the Service was equivalent to l|rf. per head of the whole population.

The Institution asked the Mayors of London for their personal interest and support, so that its appeal for the national and permanent work of the Life-boat Service might be on the same scale as Alexandra Rose Day and Earl Haig's Poppy Day, and have the same success.

The Lord Mayor said that the Life- boat Service was one of the great out- standing services maintained by private societies. It had his warmest sympathy and was most deserving of the support of the metropolitan Mayors and Mayor- esses. He appealed to them to use their personal influence to make London Life-boat Day a permanent and national function, in the great city which was the centre of the maritime life of the Empire, as well as the birthplace of the Life-boat Service of the world.