IT is proposed in future to publish in The Lifeboat lists of new Branches with the names of their Honorary Secretaries.

The following list is of the Branches which have been formed since the beginning of 1925 :— NORTHERN DISTRICT.

Branch.

Abram and Bickershawe Barnard Castle ....

Barnsley .....

Bishop Auckland.

Bentley-with-Arksey Blaydon-on-Tyne Blucher and Walbottle.

Brighouse . ...

Chester-le-Street ....

Conisborough ....

Culcheth-with-Kenyon Dinnington Village and District Earsdon and Shiremoor Golborne and Lowton .

Heddon-on-the-Wall .

Hebden Bridge and District Hindley .....

Hollingworth and Tintwistle Ince-in-Makerfield Littleborough ....

Mexborough, Swinton and District Morpeth .....

Mottram and Broadbottom .

Middlewich ....

Morecambe ....

Nelson .....

Newburn-on-Tyne Newsham and New Delaval .

Ovingham .....

Penistone .....

Pegswood .....

Ryton-on-Tyne ....

Seaton Delaval and District .

Spennymoor ....

Stamfordham ....

Standish .....

Spenborough ....

Throckley ......

Trawden .....

Whitworth Wakefield Honorary Secretary.

J. FALCON, Esq.

Mrs. KAYE RAMSDEN.

Mrs. C. H. PAEKEE.

Mrs. KENWOKTHY.

W. B. JEPSON, Esq., C.R.S.I.

Mrs. G. TURNER.

Mrs. T.WEDDELL.

Miss ELLA RAWLINSON.

Mrs. BAXTER.

Mrs. H. A. CHAMBERLAIN.

Miss M. HOLDEN.

Miss M. BATY.

Mrs. GIBBIN.

WM. ECCLESTON, Esq.

Mrs. JORDAN.

Miss W. BARBETT.

Mrs. T. BiTES.

Miss C. BUTCHER.

F. MIDDLEHURST, Esq.

Miss HOLEOYD.

GEORGE SCHOFIELD, Esq., C.C.

Miss DOWNIE.

Mrs. GEORGE SHAW.

Mrs. DUNNINGHAM.

Miss HEATON and Miss DEWHIRST.

Miss JACKSON.

Mrs. BOOKING.

Mrs. HAWKES.

Mrs. 0. WATSON.

Mrs. MARSTON.

Mrs. H. B. WILSON.

Mrs. C. TAYLOR.

Mrs. W. MARSHALL.

Mrs. BARPF.

Mrs. WELLS.

Miss DORIS RICHARDS.

Miss E. DICKINSON.

Mrs. MILLAR.

Miss E. BANNISTER.

Mrs. FORBES.

Mrs. DEWS.

Galway Lurgan Limerick Mold . . . .

Waterford .

Wrexham and District Annan Ballindalloch Biggar Cupar Craigellachie and Aberlour Cullen and Deskford .

Denny and Dunipace .

IRELAND AND WALES DISTRICT.

. RICHARD GIBBON, Esq.

. Commr. C. H. F. FORDE, R.N. (Ret.).

. C. DOWNEY, Esq.

Mrs. G. NORMAN-JONES.

RICHARD J. FARRELL, Esq.

. A. V. POWELL, Esq.

SCOTTISH DISTRICT.

. D. W. LAURENCE, Esq.

ALEX. STRATHDEE, Esq.

. JAMES CAIRNS, Esq.

. IAN W. MclNNEs, Esq., M.A., LL.B., W.S.

. J. F. McGowAN, Esq.

. SIDNEY STEWART, Esq.

. Miss SHANKS.

SCOTTISH DISTRICT—continued.

Branch.

Dufftown .....

Elgin Gardenstown and Crovie Jedburgh .....

Keith Kelso Kilsyth Kilwinning ....

Lanark .....

Lockerbie .....

Markinch .....

Moffat Nairn. .....

Oban Selkirk Stevenston .....

Tomintoul .....

Honorary Secretary.

ALEX. GALL, Esq.

J. DAVIDSON DICKIE, Esq., M.A.

GEORGE IRONSIDE, Esq.

WM. GIBSON, Esq.

S. W. MAYER, Esq.

GEORGE P. MILLAR, Esq.

Miss LOCKHART.

Miss JESSIE KJJIL.

Miss HAY.

DAVID COBMACK, Esq.

JAMBS STEVEN, Esq., M.A.

JAMES MANSON, Esq.

Councillor MACDONELL.

JAMES H. BANKS, Esq.

J. M. JEFFREY, Esq., and JOHN G. GEMMELL, Esq.

THOS. M. BLACKWOOD, Esq., M.A.

D. McHARDY, Esq.

SOUTH-WESTERN DISTRICT.

Bicester and District ..... WHXMORE TAYLOR, Esq.

Bodmin ....... GEORGE BRICKNELL, Esq.

Chipping Norton and District . . . Mrs. ROWBLL.

Thame and District ..... Mrs. PECKOVER.

In connexion with the South-Western District it should be pointed out that the list of new Branches is small because there are very few places in this District in which there is no Branch, Barking Bexley Heath and Weliing Croydon Mill Hill .

North wood Southgate .

Tottenham Twickenham Wembley .

LONDON DISTRICT.

Mrs. PINE.

Mrs. KEEJTE.

Miss MILDRED McLEoo.

Miss H. M. GREATOREX.

Mrs. CARR.

Miss HAYLES.

Mrs. HEDDLE.

Mrs. ELLIS.

Miss D. PIOOTT.

Tynemouth Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

Besides the work which it does in raising money, the Ladies' Life-boat Guild at Tynemouth has found a most practical and useful way of helping the Crew of the Motor Life-boat. The Organizing Secretary in the North of England writes :— " They have a series of ' crews ' with a Captain for each, and when there is any possibility of the Life-boat being wanted, one of the Captains is warned, and the ' crew' attend at the Watch House for the purpose of providing refreshments. On many occasions, the ladies have been at the Watch House for several hours (midnight and otherwise), and have provided hot coffee, soup, etc., etc. In this way, a most excellent feeling has resulted between the Tyne- mouth Life-boat crew and the members of the Ladies' Guild." There are active Guilds with a good membership at other Stations. Possibly they may like to follow Tynemoutn's example.

The New Honorary Secretary at Hastings.

Commander P. D. R. West, R.N., has become Honorary Secretary of the Hastings Branch, where there has been a Life-boat for nearly seventy years, on the retirement of Mr. Anson. Com- mander West earned his first distinction over thirty years ago when he was a naval cadet. The fleet was engaged in manoeuvres in the Mediterranean off Tripoli, and there was a collision between the Victoria and the Camperdown.

After the collision, Admiral of the Fleet Lord Jellicoe, who was then a Com- mander, was seen in the water. He had been suffering from fever and was in a very exhausted state. Naval Cadet West swam to his help, and supported him until they were picked up by a boat! colfrom H.M.S. NiU. For this gallant j action he was awarded the Bronze j Medal of the Royal Humane Society. Annual Meetings: Station Branches.

ABERDEEN. — On 10th December, Councillor A. Milne, Vice-President, in the chair in the absence of the President, several Lord Provost Lewis. The report for the year ending 30th September, 1925, showed that £602 had been collected, as compared with £552 in the previous year.

The Honorary Secretary reported that by an amicable arrangement with the Harbour Board the Institution had taken over the control of the Station, and had sent there two Pulling and Sailing Life-boats. One of these, how- ever, is to be replaced at an early date by a 60-foot Twin Screw Motor Life-boat, the most powerful type in the Institution's Fleet. The yearly up-keep of this Boat would be about £1,000, and he appealed for generous contributions from the people of Aberdeen themselves towards its maintenance. In moving the adoption of the report the Chairman expressed his disappointment at the meagre attendance of the meeting, and hoped that the arrival of the new Motor Life-boat would stimulate the interest of Aberdeen in the Service.

BMDLINGTON.—On 16th November, Mr. Y. G. Lloyd-Greame presiding. The report for the year ending 30th September, 1925, showed that £300 had been collected, as compared with £249 in the previous year. Councillor C. H. Gray, one of the joint Honorary Secretaries of the Branch, pointed out that the Station was not only self-supporting, but had been able to contribute to the general funds of the Institution, and the Chairman paid a tribute to the work of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

CBOMER.—On 6th November, Mr. D. Davison presiding in the unavoidable absence of Lord Suffield. The report for the year ending 30th September, 1925, showed that the Motor Life-boat had been launched seven times on service, and the Pulling and Sailing Lifeboat once, and that no fewer than fiftyeight lives had been rescued, bringing up the total for Cromer Life-boats to 345.

boat! It showed also that £405 had been collected, as compared with £352 in the j previous year. The report expressed the regret of the Committee at the death, on 14th September, of Mr. J. J. Davis, but since his retirement he had on several occasions acted as Coxswain.

The Station had also lost by death the services of Mr. T. Kirby, one of the oldest" members of the Crew, who had been caretaker of the Motor Life-boat House since its opening. Special reference was made by the Chairman to the great services of the Honorary Secretary of the Station, Mr. F. H. Barclay, and also to the work of Mr. Blyth, the Care- how- taker at the old life-boat House.

who for many years had been Coxswain. He resigned, owing to ill-health, in 1902, his CULLERCOATS.-—On 14th October. The report for the year ending 30th September, 1925, showed that £159 had been collected, as compared with £122 in the previous year. In making the financial statement the Honorary Secretary, Mr. B. H. Brown, pointed out that £122 had been collected by the Fishwives on the Road Exercise of the Boat, an increase of over £20 on their previous record. At the same time the report had one disappointing feature, the small number of annual subscriptions. He appealed for an increase in subscriptions, these being the backbone of the Institution's revenue.

DUNBAR AND SKATERAW.—On 29th December, General Sir F. R. Wingate presiding. The report for the year ending 30th September, 1925, showed that £243 had been collected, as compared with £246 in the previous year.

The sum raised in 1925 has only twice been exceeded during the past fifty years.

FLEETWOOD.—On 13th November, Mr. F. J. Thompson, J.P., presiding.

The report for the year ending 30th September, 1925, showed that £360 had been collected, as compared with £277 in the previous year. Of this sum £127 had been raised by the Life-boat Day, an increase of £27 on the previous year, On the other hand, the collections at theLife-boat House had fallen from £123 to £105.

FOLKESTONE.—On 23rd November, Mr. P. Dawson presiding. The report for the year ending 30th September, 1925, showed that the Life-boat had been out on service once during the year, and that £248 had been collected as compared with £375 in the previous year. There had been an increase in the annual subscriptions of £8, but, unfortunately, a decrease of nearly £50 in the boxes at the Life-boat House.

Special reference was made in the report to the efforts of Mrs. Shone, who con- tributed £32 as a result of a Bridge Tournament. The result of the Life- boat Day was just under £100, as com- pared with over £200 in 1924, but that was because in 1924 the Day had been held on the occasion of the visit of a number of Life-boatmen from the Continent, when there had been a big procession. Captain G. C. Holloway, O.B.E., R.D., R.N.R., a member of the Committee of Management, congratu- lated the Branch on having so efficient a Crew and a Caretaker at the Boat- house who spent so much time in showing visitors all the details of the Station's work.

ILFRACOMBE.—On 26th October, Mr. C. Darbyshire, J.P., presiding. The report for the year ending 30th Sep- tember, 1925, showed that £161 had been collected, as compared with £137 in the previous year. Mr. Darbyshire paid a tribute to the late George Comer, Second Coxswain of the Life-boat, whom he had known intimately for nearly forty years and who had been drowned while out fishing.

ISLE OF WIGHT.—On 19th September, Sir Charles Seely, Bt., J.P., President of the Branch, presiding. Reports of the Isle of Wight Stations were read by their Honorary Secretaries, and the financial statement for the year ending 30th September, 1925, showed that £857 had been collected, as compared with £807 in the previous year. In moving the adoption of the reports the Chairman pointed out that the cost of maintaining the Stations on the Island was large, as it was bound to be, now that there were Motor Life-boats at Bembridge and Yarmouth, but that he hoped, in spite of this, that contributions from the Island would be generous enough not only to pay for the whole maintenance of their own Stations, but to enable them to make a considerable contribution towards the general expenses of the Institution.

LOWESTOFT.—On 4th December, Mr. F. Spashett, Chairman of the Branch, presiding. The report for the year ending 30th September, 1925, showed that the Boat had been launched on six occasions and had saved nine lives, and that £67 had been collected, as compared with £116 in the previous year. During the year the Branch had also received a legacy of £2,150. Special reference was made by the Chairman to the fact that there had been a decrease in subscrip- tions, which amounted to only £18, and he suggested that the salesmen in the market should be approached and asked to get each fishing boat to contribute 5s.

to the Branch. If this were done between £50 and £60 might be added to the subscriptions. The Chairman's pro- posal was adopted by the meeting. The report referred to the loss which the Branch had sustained by the resignation of Mr. R. W. Seago, who had been the Honorary Secretary for the past five years, and welcomed the new Honorary Secretary, Mr. Taylor, who, with the help of Mrs. Taylor, proposes to form a Ladies' Life-boat Guild in connexion with the Branch.

MONTROSE.—On 20th November, Pro- vost W. W. Douglas Johnston presiding.

The report for the year ending 30th September, 1925, showed that £68 had been collected as compared with £324 in the previous year, in which year £250 had been raised by the Centenary celebrations. The Chairman was also able to announce that the Branch had received a legacy of £200.

NEWHAVEN.—On 7th December, Mr. H. J. Bannister, Chairman of the Branch, presiding. The report for the year ending 30th September, 1925, showed that £86.had been collected, as com- pared with £101 in the previous year.

NEWQUAY (CORNWALL). — On 8th December, Mr. J. Nicholas presiding. The Life-boat House had fallen from £123 to £105.

FOLKESTONE.—On 23rd November, Mr. P. Dawson presiding. The report for the year ending 30th September, 1925, showed that the Life-boat had been out on service once during the year, and that £248 had been collected as compared with £375 in the previous year. There had been an increase in the annual subscriptions of £8, but, unfortunately, a decrease of nearly £50 in the boxes at the Life-boat House.

Special reference was made in the report to the efforts of Mrs. Shone, who contributed £32 as a result of a Bridge Tournament. The result of the Lifeboat Day was just under £100, as compared with over £200 in 1924, but that was because in 1924 the Day had been held on the occasion of the visit of a number of Life-boatmen from the Continent, when there had been a big procession. Captain G. C. Holloway, O.B.E., R.D., R.N.R., a member of the Committee of Management, congratulated the Branch on having so efficient a Crew and a Caretaker at the Boathouse who spent so much time in showing visitors all the details of the Station's work.

ILFRACOMBE.—On 26th October, Mr. C. Darbyshire, J.P., presiding. The report for the year ending 30th September, 1925, showed that £161 had been collected, as compared with £137 in the previous year. Mr. Darbyshire paid a tribute to the late George Comer, Second Coxswain of the Life-boat, whom he had known intimately for nearly forty years and who had been drowned while out fishing.

ISLE OF WIGHT.—On 19th September, Sir Charles Seely, Bt., J.P., President of the Branch, presiding. Reports of the Isle of Wight Stations were read by their Honorary Secretaries, and the financial statement for the year ending 30th September, 1925, showed that £857 had been collected, as compared with £807 in the previous year. In moving the adoption of the reports the Chairman pointed out that the cost of maintaining the Stations on the Island was large, as it was bound to be, now that there were Motor Life-boats at Bembridge and Yarmouth, but that he hoped, in spite of this, that contributions from the Island would be generous enough not only to pay for the whole maintenance of their own Stations, but to enable them to make a considerable contribution towards the general expenses of the Institution.

LOWESTOFT.—On 4th December, Mr. F. Spashett, Chairman of the Branch, presiding. The report for the year ending 30th September, 1925, showed that the Boat had been launched on six occasions and had saved nine lives, and that £67 had been collected, as compared with £116 in the previous year. During the year the Branch had also received a legacy of £2,150. Special reference was made by the Chairman to the fact that there had been a decrease in subscriptions, which amounted to only £18, and he suggested that the salesmen in the market should be approached and asked to get each fishing boat to contribute 5s.

to the Branch. If this were done between £50 and £60 might be added to the subscriptions. The Chairman's proposal was adopted by the meeting. The report referred to the loss which the Branch had sustained by the resignation of Mr. R. W. Seago, who had been the Honorary Secretary for the past five years, and welcomed the new Honorary Secretary, Mr. Taylor, who, with the help of Mrs. Taylor, proposes to form a Ladies' Life-boat Guild in connexion with the Branch.

MONTEOSE.—On 20th November, Provost W. W. Douglas Johnston presiding.

The report for the year ending 30th September, 1925, showed that £68 had been collected as compared with £324 in the previous year, in which year £250 had been raised by the Centenary celebrations. The Chairman was also able to announce that the Branch had received a legacy of £200.

NEWHAVEN.—On 7th December, Mr. H. J. Bannister, Chairman of the Branch, presiding. The report for the year ending 30th September, 1925, showed that £86.had been collected, as compared with £101 in the previous year.

NEWQUAY (CORNWALL). — On 8th December, Mr. J. Nicholas presiding. The report for the year ending 30th September, 1925, showed that £225 had been collected, as compared with £260 in the previous year.

PENLEE ber, Mr. W. H. Lane presiding.

OnSrdDecem- The report for the year ending 30th September, 1925, showed that the Life-boat had been out on two occasions and that £219 had been collected, as compared with £208 in the previous year.

POOLE AND BOURNEMOUTH.—On 11th December, the Mayor (Alderman H. S. Carter) presiding. The report for the year ending 30th September, 1925, showed that £696 had been collected, as compared with £633 in the previous year.

SOVTHEND-ON-SEA.—On 19th November, Alderman Sir John Francis, J.P., Chairman of the Branch, presiding. The report presented by the Honorary .Secretary (Alderman F. Britain) showed that during the past year the Life-boat had saved seven lives, on one occasion the Boat being out on continuous duty for thirteen hours; and the Financial Statement showed that £476 had been collected, as compared with £294 in the previous year.

WEYMOCTH.—On 5th October, Major J. H. C. Devenish presiding. The report for the year ending 30th September, 1925, showed that £250 had been collected, as compared with £231 in the previous year. The report also showed that the Life-boat had been called out on service six times during the year.

Annual Meetings : Financial Branches and Guilds.

BATH.—On 17th November, General E. H, Molesworth presiding. The report for the year ending 30th September, 1925, showed that £313 had been collected, as compared with £352 in the previous year. Special reference was made to the work of Mrs. Allon Tucker, Honorary Secretary of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, who carried out the Life-boat Day which raised nearly £100, and to the services of Miss Tyler, who had resigned after having collected for the Branch for many years.

COVENTRY.—On 2nd March, Alderman A. H. Drinkwater presiding. The report year. In moving the adoption of the report Alderman Drinkwater said that llth Alderman for the year ending 30th September, 1925, showed that £257 had been collected, as compared with £499 in the previous this considerable reduction in the revenue of the Branch was due in great measure to the lack of helpers on Lifeboat Day. In thanking those who had taken part in it, he added that he hoped that next year some scheme might be found for greatly increasing their number.

DUNDEE.—Ladies' Life-boat Guild, on 22nd September, ex-Lord Provost Longair, J.P., D.L., presiding. The report for the year ending 30th September, 1925, showed that £284 had been collected, as compared with £254 in the previous year. Mr. James Nicholl, Honorary Treasurer of the Dundee Branch, thanked the Guild and its Honorary Secretary (Miss Jenkins) for their work.

DUNDEE.—On 5th November, Mr. B. L. Nairn presiding. The report for the year ending 30th September, 1925, showed that £380 had been collected, as compared with £698 in the previous year, Of this sum the Ladies' Life-boat Guild had raised £284, a sum almost equal to the record of the previous year. Mr. Nairn said that he was afraid that those who ought to feel that it was their duty to support the Life-boat Service were too much inclined to rely on the work of the ladies instead of contributing themselves.

The commercial community, merchants and traders, who used the sea services could surely contribute more than £72 in such an important port as Dundee, and he made a special appeal to them to treble this amount in the forthcoming year.

EDINBURGH AND LEITH. — On 27th November, the Lord Provost (Sir William Sleigh) presiding. The report for the year ending 30th September, 1925, showed that £1573 had been collected, as compared with £1945 in the previous year. Lord Sands, in moving the adoption of the report, said that though no doubt the Life-boat Service was not so hazardous now, on account of the mechanical improvements and inventions, it was still a dangerous and noble work which they should all heartily and cordially support.

The Lord Provost delivered an address, making an urgent appeal for increased support, and presented prizes which had been won by schools in Edinburgh in the Life-boat Essay Competition.

LANCASTER.—Ladies' Life-boat Guild, on 4th December, the Mayor presiding.

The report for the year ending 30th September, 1925, showed that £112 had been collected, as compared with £272 in the previous year. In the course of his address the Mayor congratulated the ladies of the Guild in being associated with what he considered to be the finest of all philanthropic Institutions.

OLDHAM.—On 3rd December, the Mayor of Oldharn (Councillor F. Pollard) presiding. The report for the year ending 30th September, 1925, showed that £296 had been collected, of which £183 had been raised by tie Ladies' Life-boat Guild, in the work of which the Mayoress is taking an active part, but that there had, unfortunately, been a falling off in subscriptions. The Mayor made a strong appeal for increased support.

PERTH.-—On 15th September. The report for the year ended 30th Septem- ber, 1925, showed that £379 had been collected, as compared with £424 in the previous year. In moving the adoption of the report, Vice-Admiral Sir W. H. Cowan, K.C.B., D.S.O., Admiral Superin- tendent of the Rosyth Dockyard, speak- ing as a sailor of over forty years' experience, said there was no cause so worthy as the Life-boat Service, and, in his opinion, no form of courage so high as that which was required for the long-drawn-out battle with the wind and sea through the blackness and hopeless- ness of a long winter night.

ST. IVES (HUNTS.).—On 27th October.

Mrs. J. J. Bryant, President of the Branch, presiding. The report for the year ending 30th September, 1925, showed that £54 had been collected as compared with £63 in the previous year.

Special Meetings.

BATH.—On 27th October Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., Chairman of the Committee of Management, was the guest of honour of the Bath Rotary Club at their weekly luncheon, the chair being taken by the Senior Vice-President, Mr. Douglas R. Hatt, J.P., and delivered an address on the Life-boat Service.

BRADFORD.—The twenty-sixth annual i Matinee in aid of the Life-boat Service [ was held at the Alhambra on 18th {November, realising a sum of £370. As | in previous years, the Matinee was j arranged by Mr.. Francis Laidler, the | Managing Director of the theatre, and j a number of well-known artistes gave j their services. Among those present in j the audience were the Lord Mayor and (Lady Mayoress, Sir William Priestley, | Chairman of the Branch, and Lady j Priestley.

CROYDON.—To inaugurate the new Croydon Branch Sir Godfrey Baring spoke at a meeting of the North End Brotherhood on llth October. This was followed by an address by the District Organizing Secretary for Lon- don at the weekly luncheon of the Croydon Rotary Club, on 13th October, in which the speaker pointed out that London had Branches thirty and forty years old; one of them, Bermondsey, having contributed for the last thirty years an average annual sum of £250.

On 16th October the District Organising Secretary spoke at Toe H, and on 21st October a drawing-room meeting was held,the Rev. Canon W. P. G. McCormick, D.S.O., presiding, at which an address on the work of the Life-boat Service was delivered by Mr. George F. Shee, M.A., Secretary of tie Institution. A message was read from the Postmaster-General, Sir William Mitchell Thomson, M.P. for South Croydon, in which he said: " Though we are an inland community in Croydon, I hope we shall never forget what ships and sailors have meant and mean to England and to us. For our comforts, for our clothes, for our daily bread, we are largely dependent upon the safe and regular passage of shipping.

It is not surely too much to ask us to do what we can for the Life-boat Service—• the first and the best in the world." A message was also read from Captain ] A. F. B. Carpenter, V.C. A collection amounting to over £20 was made, and it was announced that a list of sub-scriptions had already been received amounting to £95.

This meeting was followed by draw- ing-room meetings on 9th and 18th November, at the houses of Mrs. Berney and Mrs. Walker, a theatrical perform- Octoance on 19th January, at which over £60 was raised, and a Life-boat lecture at St. Anselm's School on March 2nd.

The Mayoress has consented to help with the organization of Croydon Life- boat Day, to be held in the summer of 1926.

EXETER.—On 26th October Sir God- frey Baring, Bt., Chairman of the Com- mittee of Management, was the guest of honour at the weekly luncheon of the Exeter Rotary Club, and delivered an address on the work of the Life-boat Service.

READING.—On 5th October Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., Chairman of the Com- mittee of Management, was the guest of honour at the weekly luncheon of the Reading Rotary Club, Mr. W. R. Howell, President of the Club, presiding, and delivered an address on the work of the Life-boat Service.

THAME.—A meeting of the newly formed Branch was held on 19th October, at which the chair was taken by Major S. E. Ashton, supported by Mrs. R. 0. Lee, the President; Mrs. Pecover, the Honorary Secretary ; and Mr. L. C.

Lawrence, the Honorary Treasurer, at which Major Sir Maurice Cameron, K.C.M.G., a member of the Committee of Management, delivered an address on the work of the Service. A vote of thanks was proposed by the Rev. G. C. Bowring, who appealed to all the people of Thame to give the new Branch their support, and seconded by Dr. Summerhayes, who pointed out that though Thame was only a small place and far from the sea, he knew of six of its boys who had gone to sea since the war, and there must be many others..