Greater London.

CARSHALTOX (SURREY).—Whist Drive.

CRANFORD (MIDDLESEX). — Whist Drive.

ELSTREE (HERTFORDSHIRE). —• On 28th June a Garden Party given by Sir Trevor and Lady Dawson at Edgwarebury House.

FULHAM (LONDON).—Collection at the football match between Fulham and Oldham, by permission of the Fulham directors.

GREENFORD (MIDDLESEX).—Dance.

HACKNEY (LONDON).—Whist Drive.

Collection at the football match between Clapton Orient and Notts Forest, by permission of the Clapton Orient directors.

HAMPSTEAD. — On 13th June a Garden Party was given by Mrs.

Hillier Holt, at her house at Regent's Park, at which H.R.H. Princess Beatrice, Patron of the Isle of Wight Branch of the Institution, was present. Addresses were given by Mr. H. A. Baker, a member of the Committee of Management of the Institution, and Mr.

George F. Shee, M.A., Secretary of the Institution, and among those present were the Mayor and Mayoress of St.

Marylebone (Councillor R. S. Allen, J.P., and Mrs. Allen), the Mayoress of Westminister (Mrs. Abdy), and Lady Florence Pery, Honorary Secretary of the Guild. Miss Wendy Toye gave an exhibition of dancing. A number of new members of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild were enrolled.

ILFORD (ESSEX).—Ladies' Life-boat Guild formed. President, the Mayoress.

Address to Rotary Club by the District Organizing Secretary.

ST. ALBANS.—Annual Meeting on 3rd April. Speakers: The Mayor, Chairman, Miss Silvester, Honorary Secretary, and the District Organizing Secretary. Efforts for last year : Lifeboat Day, Bridge Drive. Amount raised £189 as compared with £302 in the previous year. The reason for the decline was that the 1925 Life-boat Day was held in October 1925, and so included in the 1926 accounts.

This meeting was followed by the Guild Annual Meeting, Lady Peake, the Chairman of the Guild, presiding.

North of England.

Life-boat Days have been held at ABRAM, ACCRIXGTOX and ADLINGTON (LANCASHIRE).

ALNWICK (NORTHUMBERLAND).— Annual Life-boat Ball.

Life-boat Days have been held at ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE and BACUP (LANCASHIRE), BARNSLEY and BATLEY (YORKSHIRE).

BERWICK-ON-TWEED.—Ladies' Lifeboat Guild Annual Meeting, 15th June, at Ord House, when the President, Lady Francis Osborne, was at home to the members. Speaker : Lady Francis Osborne. Amount raised £296, as compared with £209 in the previous year.

Life-boat Days have been held at BEVERLEY (YORKSHIRE), BILLIXGE, BLACKBURN and BOLTON (LANCASHIRE), and BRADFORD (YORKSHIRE).

BRIDLINGTON (YORKSHIRE).—Whist Drive, Tournament and Dance.

Life-boat Days have been held at BRIERCLIFFE and BRIERFIELD (LANCASHIRE).

BURNLEY (LANCASHIRE.) — Garden Party on 19th June, organised by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, at The Holme, Cliviger, by kind permission of Colonel and Mrs. Macnamara.

BURY (LANCASHIRE).—Annual Meeting on 16th April. Speakers: The Mayor and the District Organising Secretary. Special efforts for the past year: Life-boat Day, Appeal by the Mayor, Special effort by Ladies' Lifeboat Guild. Amount raised £171, as compared with £182 in the previous year.

Lifeboat Day.

CARLISLE.—Annual Meeting 17th May. Speakers: Major Ronald Carr, presiding, Mrs. Talbot Caddow, President of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, and Mr. Harold Carr. Special efforts for the past year : Life-boat Day Collections in outlying villages, Works Collections, Whist Drive, Collections in Cinemas and Theatres and at a Football Match, Sale of Work. Amount raised £174 as compared with £236 in the previous year.

CARNFORTH (LANCASHIRE). — Whist Drive.

CHESTER.—Annual Meeting on 22nd May. Speakers: The Mayor, President, and Sir William Milligan, M.D., J.P., a Vice-President of the Institution, and Chairman of the Manchester, Salford and District Branch. Special efforts for the past year : Life-boat Day. Amount raised £310, as coin pared with £254 in the previous year.

Life-boat Day.

CHORLEY (LANCASHIRE). — Life-boat Day.

CLAYTON (MANCHESTER). — Ladies' Life-boat Guild Annual Meeting, 25th April. Speakers : Mr. W. H. Flanagan, J.P., President, Mrs. S. Hall, Vice-President, and Mr. S. Hall, Honorary Secretary.

Amount raised £150, as compared with £104 in the previous year.

Life-boat Days have been held at COPPULL, CREWE and CULCHETH-WLTHKENYON (LANCASHIRE).

CUDWORTH (YORKSHIRE).—Branch formed. President, Councillor G. H.

England. Life-boat Day.

Life-boat Days have been held at COLNE, CROSTON and DARWEN (LANCASHIRE), DARLINGTON and DURHAM (DURHAM), and EARBY (LANCASHIRE).

GATESHEAD (Co. DURHAM). — A Garden Fete opened by the Mayor, at which Major H. E. Burton, R.E., one of the Institution's Gold Medallists, and late Superindendent of the Tynemouth Motor Life-boat, made an appeal.

Life-boat Days have been held at GARSTANG (LANCASHIRE) and GO.LCAR (YORKSHIRE).

HARTLEPOOL (DURHAM). — Life-boat Day, Whist Drive and Dance.

Life-boat Days have been held at HASLINGDEN and HAYDOCK AND ASHTON IN MAKERFIELD (LANCASHIRE).

HEBDEN BRIDGE AND DISTRICT and HECKMONDWIKE (YORKSHIRE). HEYWOOD (LANCASHIRE), and HOLLINGWORTH (CHESHIRE).

HULL.—Annual Meeting on 30th March. Speakers : Colonel Strachey- Clitherow, in the absence of the Lord Mayor, the Reverend R. T. Newcombe, Honorary Secretary, and the District Organising Secretary. Efforts for the past year: Life-boat Day. Amount raised £734, as compared with £541 in the previous year.

Life-boat Day.

HYDE (CHESHIRE).—Performance by the Lyceum Players of '" Find the Girl." INCE (LANCASHIRE).—Whist Drive.

IELAM AND CADISHEAD (LANCASHIRE).

—Life-boat Day.

KENDAL (WESTMORLAND). — Guild Annual Meeting on 16th May. Speaker: Mrs. C. H. Whitaker, President.

Special efforts for the past year : Lifeboat Day, Whist Drive. Amount raised £106, as compared with £95 in the j previous year.

i Life-boat Day.

j Life-boat Days have been held at j KEIGHLEY (YORKSHIRE), LEIGH, LITTLEBOROUGH, LITTLE HULTON, LITTLE ! LEVER and LIVERPOOL (LANCASHIRE), LYMM and MACCLESFIELD (CHESHIRE), MALTON (YORKSHIRE), MANCHESTER and MARSDEN (YORKSHIRE).

MARYPORT (CUMBERLAND).—Whist Drive and Concert.

Life-boat Days have been held at MELTHAM and MIDDLESBROUGH (YORKSHIRE), MIDDLETON (LANCASHIRE), MIDDLEWICH (CHESHIRE), MORPETH (NORTHUMBERLAND), MOSSLEY and NELSON (LANCASHIRE).

NEW BRIGHTON (LANCASHIRE).— Wives of Life-boatmen entertained at Rhyl for the day by Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

Life-boat Days have been held at NEWBIGGIN and NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE (NORTHUMBERLAND) and NEWTON-INMAKERFIELD (LANCASHIRE).

NORMANTON (YORKSHIRE). — Whist Drive.

Life-boat Days have been held at NORTHWICH (CHESHIRE), OLDHAM AND DISTRICT (LANCASHIRE), OUTWOOD AND STANLEY (YORKSHIRE), PADIHAM and PRESTON (LANCASHIRE), RAWMARSH and REDCAR (YORKSHIRE), ROMILEY (CHESHIRE) and RISHTON (LANCASHIRE).

ROTHERHAM.—Annual Meeting on 20th April. Speakers : Councillor J.

Dickinson, J.P., Chairman, of the Branch, The Mayor and the District Organising Secretary. Special efforts for the past year ; Appeal by Chairman, Life-boat Day. Amount raised £230, as compared with £174 in the previous year.

Life-boat Day.

Life-boat Days have been held at RUNSWICK AND STAITHES (YORKSHIRE), and RYTON-ON-TYNE (DURHAM).

SALTBURN-BY-THE-SEA (YORKSHIRE).

—Terpsichorean Matinee given for the Ladies' Life-boat Guild by the pupils of Mrs. Glendenen Robinson and Miss Smith.

SANDBACH (CHESHIRE). — Life-boat Day.

SEAHAM (Co. DURHAM). — Whist Drive.

SEATON DELAVAL AND DISTRICT (NORTHUMBERLAND).—Life-boat Day.

SHEFFIELD.—Ladies' Life-boat Guild Annual Meeting on 17th May. Speakers : Mrs. David Flather (the Mistress Cutler), and Mr. James Henderson, Honorary Secretary of the Sheffield Branch.

Special efforts for the past year : Lifeboat Day, Appeal by the Mistress Cutler. Amount raised £589, as compared with £553 in the previous year.

SLAITHWAITE (YORKSHIRE). — Lifeboat Day.

SOUTHPORT (LANCASHIRE).—Annual Meeting on 29th May. Speakers : The Mayor, Mr. George Cockshott, Alderman Potts, Alderman Aveling, and the District Organising Secretary. Special efforts for last year: Life-boat Day organised by Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

Amount raised £511, as compared -with £585 in the previous year.

Special meeting at which the Service Record Boards of the Station, now closed, were handed to the Mayor to be retained among the civic records.

Life-boat Days have been held at SOUTH SHIELDS (DURHAM), SOWERBY BRIDGE, SPENBOROUGH and STAINLAND (YORKSHIRE), STOCKPORT (CHESHIRE), and STOCKTON AND THORNABY and SUNDERLAND AND DISTRICT (DURHAM).

TOTTINGTON (LANCASHIRE).—Ladies' Life-boat Guild formed. President, Mrs. H. Barnicot.

Life-boat Days have been held at TRAWDEN, TURTON AND DISTRICT and UPHOLLAND (LANCASHIRE).

WAKEFIELD (YORKSHIRE). — Whist Drive.

WALLASEY AND NEW BRIGHTON (LIVERPOOL BRANCH).—Ladies' Lifeboat Guild Annual Meeting on 22nd June. Speakers : Mrs. C. S. Parkinson, President, and Mr. S. 8. Jerrett, Chairman of the New Brighton Committee.

Amount raised £314, as compared with £184 in the previous year.

Life-boat Days have been held at WARRINGTON AND DISTRICT (LANCASHIRE), WEST HARTLEPOOL (DURHAM), WESTHOUGHTON and WIDNES (LANCASHIRE), and WITHERNSEA (YORKSHIRE).

WORKINGTON.—Ladies' Life - boat Guild Annual Meeting on 21st May.

Amount raised £45, as compared with £55 in the previous year.

WORSTHORNE (LANCASHIRE).—First Annual Meeting on 30th April. Speakers: The Reverend H. Stones, M.A., President, and the District Organising Secretary.

Amount raised £14.

Life-boat Day.

Midlands.

BIRMINGHAM.—Annual Meeting on 20th June. Speaker : The Lord Mayor, President. Special efforts for the past year: Life-boat Day, Works Collections, Annual Ball, Collections in Hotels, Theatres and Places of Worship.

Amount raised £1,283, as compared with £1,342 in the previous year.

Address to Rotary Club by the District Organising Secretary.

Life-boat Days have been held at BRISTOL (GLOUCESTERSHIRE), BRIGG (LINCOLNSHIRE), BURTON LATIMER (NORTHAMPTONSHIRE), and BUXTON (DERBYSHIRE).

CHELTENHAM (GLOUCESTERSHIRE).—• Annual Meeting on 22nd June.

Speakers : Mrs. Richard Davies, Chairman of the Branch, and Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., Chairman of the Committee of Management of the Institution, Special efforts for the past year : Life-boat Day, Dance Tea. Amount raised £212, as compared with £59 in the previous year.

Life-boat Day.

Life-boat Days have been held at COLESHILL (WARWICKSHIRE), CRADLEY HEATH (STAFFORDSHIRE), DESBOROUGH (NORTHAMPTONSHIRE), GLOSSOP (DERBYSHIRE), GRANTHAM (LINCOLNSHIRE), HENLEY-IN-ARDEN (WARWICKSHIRE) , HOLBEACH (LINCOLNSHIRE). IRTHLINGBOROUGH and KETTERING (NORTHAMPTONSHIRE), LANGWITH (DERBYSHIRE), LINCOLN (LINCOLNSHIRE), LONG EATON (NOTTINGHAMSHIRE), and MARKET DEEPING (LINCOLNSHIRE).

NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYME (STAFFORDSHIRE).

—Special Meeting of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild to increase interest in the work of the Institution. Speakers : Miss Harrison, M.B.E., Patron of the Guild, and Mr. B. C. Lawes. Miss B.

D. Dandy was elected Honorary Secretary.

Life-boat Days have been held at RUGELEY (STAFFORDSHIRE) and RUGBY (WARWICKSHIRE).

SIR JOHN FRANKLIN (SPILSBY) BRANCH (LINCOLNSHIRE).—Performance by the Horncastle Amateur Dramatic Society of " The Unfair Sex." Life-boat Days have been held at SMETHWICK and STONE (STAFFORDSHIRE), STOURBRIDGE (WORCESTERSHIRE), and WALSALL (STAFFORDSHIRE).

WELLINGBOROUGH (NORTHAMPTONSHIRE).

—Special Meeting to stimulate the work of the Branch, with the Rev.

F. T, Williams presiding.

Life-boat Day.

WEST BROMWICH (STAFFORDSHIRE).— Address to Rotary Club by District Organising Secretary.

South-East of England.

BEDFORD.—House to house Collection.

CANTERBURY.—Collection in licensed houses.

CHELMSFORD (ESSEX). — Special Meeting with Alderman F. Spalding, J.P., Deputy-Mayor, presiding.

Speakers: Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., Chairman of the Committee of Management of the Institution, Mr. Collingwood Hope, C.B.E., K.C., Canon Lake, and Mrs. Finch, the Honorary Secretary.

Life-boat Day.

(ESSEX). — Life-boat COLCHESTER Day.

FARNHAM.—Tennis Tournament.

FOLKESTONE (KENT).—Special meeting, with Mrs. Younghusband, a member of the Branch Committee, presiding, to consider other methods of raising funds in view of the refusal of a Life-boat Day by the Town Council at this Station Branch. Ladies' Life-boat Guild formed; Chairman, Mrs. Younghusband ; Vice- Chairman, Miss Hopkins; Honorary Treasurer, Mrs. Nieppe Edwards; Honorary Secretaries, Miss Ethel Hopkins and Mrs. London. (The refusal of the Town Council was later withdrawn as another charity to whicii a day had been allotted did not want it, and a Life-boat Day was held in August.) Sir Philip Sassoon, Bt., G.B.E., C.M.G., M.P., President of the Branch, opened his gardens at Port Lympne to the public in aid of the Branch.

GRAVESEXD (KEXT).—Whist Drive and Dance.

GREAT YARMOUTH AXD GORLESTON.— Ladies' Life-boat Guild Annual Meeting on 18th June. Speakers: The Mayoress of Great Yarmouth, President, and Lady Vincent, Chairman. Amount raised £307, as compared with £441 in the previous year.

GREENFORD (MIDDLESEX).—Dance.

GBEENHITHE (KENT). — Life-boat Day.

HASTINGS AND ST. LEONARDS (SUSSEX).—Annual Meeting on 5th June Speakers : The Mayor, President, and Captain G. C. Holloway, O.B.E., R.D., R.N.R., a member of the Committee of Management of the Institution. Special efforts for the past year: Life-boat Day. Collection at ceremony of Blessing the Sea, Lantern Lectures by Mr. H.

Samson, J.P., the Honorary Secretary, Entertainment by pupils of Dunmore School. Amount raised £230, as compared with £85 in the previous year.

Street Collection on Regatta Day.

Life-boat Days have been held at KING'S LYNN (NORFOLK), LEWES (Sus- SEX), MAIDENHEAD (BERKSHIRE), MARCH (CAMBRIDGESHIRE), SOUTHWICK (Sus- SEX), ToNBRIDGE and [TUNBRIDGE WELLS (KENT), and WALTON-ONTHAMES (SURREY).

WALTON - ON - THE - NAZE (ESSEX).—• Annual Dinner of Life-boat workers, with Mr. J. F. Graham, Honorary Secretary of the Branch, presiding.

WATFORD (HERTFORDSHIRE). — Branch formed. Mr. L. A. Capel and Mr. W. D. Clarke, Joint Honorary Secretaries.

WELWYN GARDEN CITY (HERTFORDSHIRE).

—Life-boat Day.

South-West of England.

Life-boat Days have been held at ALDERSHOT (HAMPSHIRE), AXMINSTER (DEVONSHIRE), BANBURY (OXFORDSHIRE), BATH (SOMERSET), BRADFORDON- AvoN and DEVIZES (WILTSHIRE), and DORCHESTER (DORSETSHIRE).

EXETER (DEVONSHIRE).—Life-boat Day, and Annual Jumble Sale.

Life-boat Days have been held at FARNBOROUGH, FAWLEY and PETERSFIELD (HAMPSHIRE).

POOLE, BOURNEMOUTH, WIMBORNE AND CHRISTCHURCH.—Annual Meeting on llth May. Speakers : The Mayor, Vice-President, and Mr. George F.

Shee, M.A., Secretary of the Institution.

Special efforts for the past year : Life-boat Day, House to House collection, Special Appeal. Amount raised £1,011, as compared with £635 in the previous year.

Wimborne Life-boat Day.

Life-boat Days have been held at READING (BERKSHIRE), ROMSEY and SOUTHAMPTON (HAMPSHIRE), andTnAME (OXFORD).

TORBAY (BRIXHAM, DEVONSHIRE).— Special Meeting held at Brixham.

Speakers : Mr. Harold Clayton, Chairman of the Torbay Branch and member of the Committee of Management of the Institution, and Mr. George F. Shee, M.A., Secretary of the Institution, who presented to the Coxswain and each member of the Crew a copy of a letter of thanks received from the Italian Ambassador for the rescue of three men of the crew of the Italian steamer Liberia, in February, 1926.

Life-boat Days have been held at TROWBRIDGE (WILTSHIRE), TKURO (CORNWALL), WARM -STER (WILTSHIRE), WELLS (SOMERSET).

Scotland.

ARBROATH (FORFARSHIRE).—Ladies' ; Life-boat Guild Annual Meeting on 12th April. Speaker: Mrs. M'Laren Robertson, Vice-President. Amount raised £70, as compared with £69 in the previous year.

Life-boat Days have been held at AYR, at BIGGAR and CARLUKE (LANARK), CUPAR (FIFE), DUNOON (ARGYLL), ELGIN (ELGIN), and EDINBURGH.

GLASGOW.—Annual Meeting on 1st June. Speaker: Mr. Leonard Gow, J.P., President. Amount raised £3,512 as compared with £2,391 in the previous year.

Life-boat Day.

Life-boat Days have been held at GOUROCK (RENFREW), GRANGEMOUTH (STIRLING). GREENOCK AND PORT GLASGOW (RENFREW), HAWICK (ROXBURGH), HELENSBURGH (DUMBARTON), INVERKEITHING (FlFE), KlLSYTH (STIRLING), KlLWINNING (AYR), KlRKINTILLOCH (DUMBARTON), LAMINGTON and LANABK (LANARK), and LONGFORGAN (PERTHSHIRE).

PERTH AND DISTRICT.—Annual Meet-, ing on 6th June. Speakers: Lady Findlay, Honorary Secretary of the Scottish Life-boat Council, Lord Provost Dempster and the Rev. P. R.

Landreth, Chairman, presiding. Special efforts for the past year: Life-boat Day collection in 37 districts. Amount raised £408, as compared with £382 in the previous year.

Life-boat Days.

SELKIRK (SELKIRK).—Life-boat Day.

Ireland.

ARMAGH (Co. ARMAGH).—Branch formed. President. Mrs. Miller, J.P. ; Honorary Secretaries, Mrs. Belford and Mrs. Noel Smith.

BANGOR (Co. DOWN).—Annual Meeting on 7th May. Speakers : The Mayor and the District Organising Secretary. Amount raised £127, as compared with £103 in the previous year.

BELFAST (LouGH).—Annual Meeting on 30th May. Speakers : The Lord Mayor, President, and Colonel the Right. Hon. Sharman Crawford, C.B.E., D.L., P.C., a member of the Branch Committee. Special efforts for the past year: Life-boat Day, Works Collections, Ball organised by Ladies' Life-boat Guild, Appeal by Lord Mayor.

Amount raised £634, as compared with £644 in the previous year.

Life-boat Day.

DUBLIN AND DISTRICT.—Ladies' Lifeboat Guild formed. President, Her Excellency Mrs. McNeill, wife of the Governor-General.

Life-boat Day.

DROGHEDA (Co. LOUTH).—Life-boat Day.

GALWAY.—Annual Meeting, 27th April. Mr. Philip O'Gorman, President of the Chamber of Commerce, in the chair. Mr. C. J. McQuillan appointed Honorary Secretary, and Mr. J. O'Kelly- Lynch re-elected Honorary Treasurer.

Amount raised £46, as compared with £109 in the previous year.

Life-boat Day.

HOWTH (Co. DUBLIN).—Annual Meeting on 27th April. Speaker: Commander Gaisford St. Lawrence, R.N. D.L., Chairman of the Branch.

Amount raised £105, as compared with £107 in the previous year.

LARNE (Co. ANTRIM).—Annual Meeting on 7th May. Speakers : Brigadier- General T. K. E. Johnston, C.B., J.P., and the District Organising Secretary.

Special efforts for the past year : Lifeboat Day. Amount raised £83 as compared with £63 in the previous year.

LISBURN (Co. ANTRIM).—Annual Meeting in May. Speakers : Mr. Joseph Allen and the District Organising Secretary.

Amount raised £141, as compared with £121 in the previous year.

Life-boat Day.

Life-boat Days have been held at LONDONDERRY, and at MILFORD (Co.

DONEGAL).

NEWCASTLE (Co. DOWN).—Annual Meeting on 28th June. Speaker : The Rev. 0. Woodward, Chairman of the Branch. Special efforts for the past year : Life-boat Day. Amount raised £74 as compared with £94 in the previous year.

STRABANE Day.

(Co. TYRONE).—Life-boat Wales (Including Herefordshire and Shropshire).

CAERNARVON (CAERNARVONSHIRE).— Life-boat Day.

CONWAY (CAERNARVONSHIRE) Drive.

-Whist Life-boat Days have been held at DENBIGH (DENBIGH) and LEDBUEY (HEREFORDSHIRE).

LLANDUDNO (CAERNARVONSHIRE).— Crew entertained to supper by Mr. Jack Holden.

LLANELLY (CARMARTHEN).—Life-boat Day.

MARKET DRAYTON (SHROPSHIRE).— Branch formed. President, Mrs. E. E.

Davies.

NEWPORT (MONMOUTHSHIRE).— Ladies' Life-boat Guild Annual Meeting on 17th April. Speakers: Mrs. E.

Eees, Chairman of the Guild, and the District Organising Secretary. Amount raised £258, as compared with £141 in the previous year.

Life-boat Day, Life-boat Days have been held at PONTYPRIDD and SWANSEA (GLAMORGANSHIRE), WREXHAM AND DISTRICT (DENBIGH).

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