DURING the summer four Life-boat appeals have been broadcast in Ireland and Wales. On 30th May, just before Life-boat Day was held in Belfast, Sir Frederick Moneypenny, C.V.O., C.B.E., the City Chamberlain of Belfast and Private Secretary to the Lord Mayor, who, for thirty years has been an active worker for the Life-boat cause, made an appeal from Belfast.

In the course of his address Sir Frederick said, " No Irishman or Irishwoman likes to feel that the voluntary subscribers of England, Scotland, and Wales are not only paying for the building of our Life-boats, but afterwards defray nearly half the expenditure incurred and spent in Ireland in maintaining them. There is only one way for us to remove this reproach, and that is by raising a further £3,500 each year, so that Ireland would then be paying for the maintenance of the Irish Stations." He also pointed out that last year Dublin raised the largest sum of any Branch in Ireland, and appealed to Belfast to make an effort to take the first place. As a result of this appeal Sir Frederick Moneypenny received a number of cheques.

On 25th June the District Organising Secretary gave a talk from Dublin on the Irish Life-boats.

Two talks on the work of the Welsh Life-boats were given by the District Organising Secretary, on 15th May at Swansea, and on llth August at Cardiff.

At Cardiff the talk on the work of the Welsh Life-boats was preceeded by five minutes of extracts from the amusing things written by school-children in the Life-boat Essay Competition..