The 2ft Branches with WE publish below a, table showing the leading Branches with their contributions.

All of them were among the first twenty last year except Salisbury and District, Margate and Worthing, which take the place of Hull and District, Sheffield and Aberdeen.

The City of London again heads the list, Manchester and Salford is now second, taking the place of Liverpool, which has dropped to third place.

Branch.

1 City of London * . . . .

2 Manchester and Salford .

3 Port of Liverpool . . . .

4 Glasgow arid District 5 Bradford and District .

6 Edinburgh, Leith and Granton 7 City of Birmingham 8 Bristol 9 Eastbourne * .

10 City of Dublin 1 1 Southampton and District .

12 Oxford 13 Isle of Wight * . . .

14 Salisbury and District .

15 Poole, Bournemouth, etc.* .

16 Douglas* 17 Margate * 18 Belfast Lough 19 Worthing * 20 Leeds the highest Collection.

Dublin has risen from 14th to 10th, while Belfast Lough has fallen from 13th to 18th. Leeds has also fallen, from 8th to the last place.

The populations of the twenty vary from over a million to 37,000, and the two with the smallest populations, Salisbury and District and Oxfoid, have the highest collections pei head.

Besides these twenty Branches, seven others raised over £500.

County.

London Lanes.

Lanes.

Lanark Yorks.

Edinburgh Warwickshire Glos.

Sussex Dublin Hants.

Oxon.

Hants.

Wilts.

Dorset Isle of Man Kent Antrim Sussex Yorks.

Hull a nd District . . . . — Sheffield Aberdeen — Population o{ Branch area.

— 1,258,854 955,000 1,060,000 394,700 512,000 919,438 377,061 431,000 220,000 57,100 37,000 — — — 418,000 600.000 , — Collection.

£ 8,972 4,131 3,724 2,390 1,975 1,615 1,342 1,200 1,022 926 916 907 906 826 786 740 727 649 624 599 Amount per head.

d.

0-70 0-93 0-54 1-20 0-76 0-35 0-76 0'51 1-0 3-79 5-35 —— — 0-37 0-23 Position last year.

1 3 2 5 6 7 4 10 12 14 9 U 15 18 16 —13 R — — 17 — — 19 20 * Fluctuating population, so that no calculation per head is possible..