LIFE-BOAT HOUSE at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley was kept open during the Exhibition's second year with the same exhibit of models, gear, pictures and relics as in 1924. A Watson Cabin Motor Life-boat was again the principal feature of the House, the Exhibition Boat of 1924, which had gone to Margate at the beginning of 1925, being replaced by the boat which has since gone to Porthdinllaen, in Carnarvonshire In addition, the Institution lent pictures and other exhibits for the Court of Heroes in the Building of the British Government, in which were represented not only the Forces of the Crown, but other services, like the Life-boats, which call for high courage and self- sacrifice.

The total attendance at the Exhibition was 9,000,000 in 1925, as compared with 17,000,000 in 1924, a little more than half; and although no attempt could be made to keep a record of those who visited Life-boat House, the fact that the collecting boxes, models, and the sale of souvenirs brought in £1753, a little over half of what was obtained in 1924, shows that the same interest was taken in it. Almost the same number of Life-boat souvenirs, books and postcards were sold as in 1924, the total for the two years being 23,207.

Not only the visitors' book but the collecting boxes showed how many countries were represented among those who visited the House, and it was a very noticeable fact that the most generous contributors from foreign countries were the Swedes and Norwegians.

Coins of over twenty different coun- tries were found in the collecting boxes, and there were also a number of old coins and tokens. Among these were a George III. farthing, two quarter-annas of the East India Company, several tokens of French Chambers of Com- merce, and a token inscribed " In Memory of the Good Old Days." This last was a more appropriate gift for the Life-boat Service than the donor prob- ably realised, for it was dated " George III. 1788," the year, that is, before the first Life-boat was launched on the Tyne.

Thus, during the two summers, tens of thousands of men, women and chil- dren, from all over the British Isles, from many parts of the Empire and from a number of foreign countries, visited Lifeboat House, Wembley, and not only saw, but went aboard a Life-boat for the first time in their lives.