1st October to 31st December.

Greater London.

BARNES (SURREY).—Concert.

BERMONDSEY.—Concert.

CLAPHAM.—Address to the Rotary Club by the Organizing Secretary.

; HAYES.—Annual Meeting on 15th November. Speaker : The District Organizing Secretary. The Annual Report showed that £51 had been raised.

ILFORD (ESSEX).—Concert and presentation of Certificates in the Life-boat Essay Competition. Speakers : The Mayor and Deputy Mayor.

ST. PAXCRAS.—Address to the Rotary Club by the Organizing Secretary.

STOKE NEWIXGTON.—Address to the Rotary Club by the Organizing Secretary.

STREATHAM.—Address to the Rotary Club by Mr. Walter Riggs, Honorary Secretary at Aldeburgh. Address to " Toe H " by the Organizing Secretary.

WEST ACTOX.—Visit of Life-boat workers to the Institution's Storeyard.

WILLESDEX.—Address to the East Willesden Rotary Club by the Organizing Secretary.

WOODFORD (ESSEX).—Bridge Drive.

Ten Lantern Lectures and talks were given during the quarter.

North of England.

ACCRIXGTOX (LANCASHIRE).—Collections by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild in places of amusement.

ARLINGTON (LANCASHIRE).—Annual Meeting on the 8th November. The Annual Report showed that £42 had been raised, as compared with £30 in the previous year.

ALXWICK (NORTHU51BERLAXH).

Annual Meeting. Special efforts during the year. Ball which raised over £60 and Concert. The Annual Report showed that £111 had been raised, as compared with £106 in the previous year.

BERWICK-OX-TWEED.—Annual Meeting on 20th November. Captain F. C. H.

Allenby, R.N.. Vice-President, in the chair. The Annual Report showed that the Life-boat had been out on two occasions, and that £344 had been raised as compared with £296 in the previous year. Of this sum the Ladies' Life-boat Guild contributed £250. as compared with £69 in the previous year.

BLACKPOOL (LANCASHIRE).—Meeting of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Whist Drive.

Dinner to the Life-boat C'rew by the Mayor, who presented the Inscribed Barometers awarded to Councillor C. E.

Tatham (Honorary Secretary) and Mr.

E. Flower by the Institution for rescuing a stranded yachtsman at considerable ri k on 1st July.

BLYTH (NORTHTMBERLAXD).—Sale of Work.

BRADFORD (YORKSHIRE). — Annual Matinee at the Alhambra Theatre.

Visit of the Bridlington Life-boat Crew, who were presented to the Mayor.

The Coxswain presented Miss Nora Grainger, the Assistant Secretary, with a model of the City of Bradford Motor Life-boat, stationed at Spuin Point on the Humber.

BRIDLIXGTOX (YORKSHIRE).—Whist Drive organized by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

BURLEY - IX' - WHARFEDALE (BRADFORD BRANCH, YORKSHIRE).-— Bridge Drive.

CARNFORTH (LANCASHIRE).—Annual Meeting on 19th October. The Annual Report showed that £74 had been raised, as compared with £16 in the previous year.

C'eLCHETH-WITH-KEXYOX (LANCASHIRE).

—Annual Meeting on 15th November. Mrs. Arthur Taylor, President, in the chair. The Annual Report showed that £17 had been raised as compared with £53 in the previous year.

DENTON (MANCHESTER AND HALVDRD BRANCH).—Whist Drive and Dance.

DUKINFIELD (CHESHIRE). — Whist Drive, at which the Mayor was present.

GATESHEAD (DURHAM). — Annual fleeting on 2nd November. The Annual Report showed that £183 had been raised, as compared with £105 in the previous year.

GOLBOURXE (LANCASHIRE).—Annual : Meeting on 18th October, at which steps were taken to revive the activities of the Branch.

HALIFAX (YORKSHIRE). — Annual Meeting on 5th October. The Annual Report showed that £233 had been raised as compared with £144 in the previous year, the expenses being only £1 9.s. Id." Bridge Drive organized by the Mayoress.

HECKMOXDWIKE (YORKSHIRE). — Whist Drive.

IXCE (LANCASHIRE).— Annual Meeting of the Branch and Ladies' Life-boat Guild on 3rd October. The Annual Report showed that the Guild, which was only formed in February, had raised over £66 by the end of September. The Honorary Secretary, Mrs. W. Smith, was cordially thanked.

KEXDAI. (WESTMORLAND).—Annual Meeting of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, 3rd December. A sum of £135 had been collected as compared with £106 the previous year.

KIRKBY STEPHEN (LANCASHIRE).— Whist Drive and Dance.

KlRKHEATOX (YORKSHIRE). HoUSeto- house Collection.

LVMM AND HEATLEY (CHESHIRE).— Whist Drive and Dance.

MARKET WEIGHTOX (YORKSHIRE).— Whist Drive.

MELTHAM (YORKSHIRE). — Annual Meeting. The Annual Report showed that £36 had been raised.

Whist Drive and Dance, with an address by Sir Charles Wilson, M.P., Chairman of the Leeds Branch.

MYTHOLMROYD (YORKSHIRE). — House-to-house Collection.

NEW BRIGHTON (CHESHIRE).—Two special performances at the Trocadero Cinema, attended by the New Brighton Committee and the Life-boat Crew, at which was shown the film of the New Brighton Motor Life-boat returning with the 23 men rescued on 24th November from the French steamer Emile Delmas.

ORRELL (LANCASHIRE).—Whist Drive and Dance.

PADIHAM Drive.

(LANCASHIRE). — Whist PIEL, BARROW (LANCASHIRE). — Annual Meeting of the Branch and Ladies' Life-boat Guild on 27th November, Mr. ,T. M. Mawson, J.P. (Honorary Secretary), presiding in the absence of the Mayor. The Annual Report showed that there had been one launch on service, and that £258 had been raised, as compared with £133 in the previous year. To this sum the Guild had contributed £70.

PORT ERIX (!SLE OF MAN).—Annual Meeting on 12th October. The Annual Report showed that there had been one launch on service, and that £363 had been raised, as compared with £389 in the previous year. The Ladies' Lifeboat Guild was cordially thanked.

PORT ST. MARY (!SLE OF MAN).— Annual Meeting on 10th December, Mr. F. W. Lawson, J.P., the Chairman, presiding. The Annual Report showed that £74 had been raised as compared with £49 in the previous year.

RADCLIFFE (LANCASHIRE). — Annual 31eeting on 8th October, fit which steps were taken to revive the activities of the Branch.

RAMSEY (!SLE OF MAN).—Annual Meeting on 17th December, the Rev.

W. M. Harrison, M.A., Chairman, presiding.

The Annual Report showed that there had been one launch on service, and that the sum of £152 had been collected, as compared with £150 in the previous year. A presentation was made to the Bowman, Harry Sharpe, who has been connected with the Station for 40 years.

RAWMARSK (YORKSHIRE). — Organ ' Recital.

ROCHDALE (LANCASHIRE).—Meeting at the Town Hall at which the Ladies' Life-boat Guild was reconstituted.

ROMILEY (CHESHIRE) .—The first Annual Meeting was held on 9th October, Mrs. Kinsey, President of the Guild, in the chair. The Annual Report showed that £40 had been raised.

SALFORD (MANCHESTER, SALFORD AND DISTRICT BRANCH, LANCASHIRE).— Whist Drive, attended by the Mayor and Mayoress.

STAINLAND (YORKSHIRE). — Whist Drive and Dance organized by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

STANDISH (LANCASHIRE).—Annual Meeting on 1st November. The Annual Report showed that £55 had been raised, as compared with £88 in the previous year.

STOCKTON AND THORNABY (DURHAM).

—Annual Meeting on 24th September.

The Annual Report showed that £170 had been raised.

Whist Drive and Dance.

URMSTON Drive.

WESTHOUGHTON Whist Drive.

(LANCASHIRE). — Whist (LANCASHIRE). — WIGAN (LANCASHIRE).—" Bring and Buy" Sale arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

Midlands.

BARNT GREEN (WARWICKSHIRE) — Branch formed (district of Birmingham Branch). Honorary Secretary, Mrs.

Newman.

BIRMINGHAM (WARWICKSHIRE). — Dance, Concert, Wireless Appeal.

BRISTOL (GLoucESTERSHrRE). — Annual Ball CANNOCK (STAFFORDSHIRE). — Lifeboat Day. Address at Sunday Concert.

CHADSMORE (STAFFORDSHIRE). — Life-boat Address in the church.

COSELEY AND SEDGELEY (STAFFORDSHIRE).

—Branch formed. Honorary Secretary, Mr. T. B. Davies.

DAVENTRY (NORTHAMPTONSHIRE). — Branch formed. Honorary Secretary, Mrs. W. Edgar.

GRIMSBY (LINCOLNSHIRE). — Whist Drive and Dance. Concert.

HANDSWORTH. (STAFFORDSHIRE). — Address to the Brotherhood.

HEAGE AND BELPER (DERBYSHIRE).— Branch formed. Honorary Secretary, Mr. Joseph Allsop. | HINCKLEY (LEICESTERSHIRE). — | Special Works and Banks Appeal. j HORNCASTLE (LINCOLNSHIRE). — Dance at Coningsby.

ILKESTON (DERBYSHIRE).—Meeting to restart the Branch. Life-boat Day.

LETCHLADE AND FAIRFORD (GLOUCESTERSHIRE).

—Branch formed. Honorary Secretary, Mr. W. Birkley-Forrester.

NOTTINGHAM (NOTTINGHAMSHIRE).— Annual Meeting on 20th November, the Lord Mayor (Alderman AtYiey) presiding.

Speaker : Sir Godfrey Baring, Bart., Chairman of the Committee of Management of the Institution. The Annual Report showed that £342 had been raised, as compared with £581 in the previous year.

NUNEATON (WARWICKSHIRE). — Branch revived. Honorary Secretary, Mr. George Cross, Junr. Life-boat Day.

RETFORD (NOTTINGHAMSHIRE). — Whist Drive and Dance.

STOKE-ON-TREXT (STAFFORDSHIRE).— Life-boat Day.

SUTTON - IN - ASHFIELD (NOTTINGHAMSHIRE).

—Dance and Whist Drive.

ToWCESTER (NORTHAMPTONSHIRE) .— Branch formed. Honorary Secretary, Mr. W. W. Baker. Dance." UPPIXGHAM (RUTLANDSHIRE). — Concert.

WEDNESFIELU (STAFFORDSHIRE).— Whist Drive and Dance.

WOLVERHAMPTON (STAFFORDSHIRE).

—Address to the Rotary Club.

South-East of England.

AMERSHAM (BUCKINGHAMSHIRE).— Branch formed. Honorary Secretary, Mr. A. E. Whitcomb.

ASHFORD (KENT).—Branch formed.

Honorary Secretary. Mrs. Alexander.

AYLSHAM (NORFOLK.). — Branch formed. Honorary Secretary, . Commander E. A. Day, R.N.

BEDFORD (BEDFORDSHIRE).—Houseto- house Collection.

BRENTWOOD (ESSEX). — Branch formed. Honorary Secretary, Mrs.

Churchill.

BROADSTAIRS (KENT). — Branch formed. Honorary Secretary, H. E.

Slade, Esq.

BYFLEET AXD PYRFORD (SURREY).— Branch formed. Honorary Secretary, Paymaster-Rear-Admiral C. S. Wonham, C.B.E.

CAMBERLEY (SURREY).—Drawingroom Meeting. Branch formed. Honorary Secretary, Miss J. Hilary.

CANTERBURY (KENT).—Lecture by the Organizing Secretary to St. Edmund's School.

DORKING (SURREY).—Branch formed.

Honorary Secretary, Miss Stilhvell.

DOVER (KENT).—Branch formed.

Honorary Secretary, Dr. Richardson.

Ladies' Life-boat Guild formed.

Honorary Secretary, Miss Jordan.

EASTBOURNE (SUSSEX).—Annual Meeting on Hth November, Mr. Ernest Armstrong, Chairman, presiding.

Speaker : Mr. George F. Shee, M.A., Secretary of the Institution. The Annual Report showed that the Lifeboat had been out once on service, and that £1,397 had been raised, as compared with £1,489 in the previous year.

Mr. Armstrong's resignation as Chairman was accepted with regret. Mr.

Shee paid a tribute to his services, and spoke of the invaluable work done by Mrs. Astley Roberts as President of the Guild, and Mr. A. Robertson as Honorary Secretary of the Branch. Mr.

Norman Holland was elected Chairman.

EGHAM AND ENGLEFIELD GREEN (SURREY).—Branch formed. Honorary Secretary, Paymaster-Rear-Admiral B.

U. Colclough, C.B.E., R.N.

ELY (CAMBRIDGESHIRE).— Life-boat Day.

FOLKESTONE (KENT).—Annual Meeting.

The Annual Report showed that there had been one launch on service, and that £353 had been raised as compared with £258 in the previous year.

Bridge Tournament.

GUILDFORD (SURREY). — House-to- House Collection. Special Meeting, with Alderman W. T. Patrick presiding, at which Mr. H. Hargood, O.B.E., a Vice-President of the Institution, gave an address and received the cheque for the collection.

HORSHAM (Si'SSEx).—Address to the Rotary Club by the Organizing Secretary.

HUNTINGDON (HUNTINGDONSHIRE).

—Branch formed. Honorary Secretary, Mr. J. H. Howgate, B.A., F~C.S.

KESSINGLAND (SUFFOLK).—Life-boat Service in the Parish Church.

MARGATE (KENT).—Dinner and Entertainment for the Life-boat Crew by 'Mrs. T. W. Gomm, wife of the Honorary Secretary. Among tho.se present were the Mayor and Mayoress and Colonel E. 0. Skey, Chairman of the Branch.

ROCHESTER (KENT).—Church Collection.

ST. IVES (HUNTINGDONSHIRE).—Lifeboat Day.

SHERINGHAM (NORFOLK).—Life-boat Day.

UCKFIELD (SUSSEX).—Branch formed.

Honorary Secretary, Rev. K. H. Mac- Dermott.

WESTGATE-ON-SEA (KENT).—Branch formed. Honorary Secretary, Mr. G. L.

Watson.

WOLVERTON (BUCKINGHAMSHIRE).— Branch formed. Honorary Secretary, Mr. Albert Brown, J.P.

South-West of England.

BATH (SOMERSET).—Annual Meeting The Report showed that £341 had been raised as compared with £345 in the previous year. Entertainment at the Theatre. Whist Drive.

BUDE (CORNWALL).—Annual Meeting on 2nd October. The Annual Report showed that £161 had been raised, as compared with £143 in the previous year.

CREDITON (DEVONSHIRE).—Lecture and Life-boat films at the Cinema.

• EXETER (DEVONSHIRE). — Monthly Whist Drives. Bridge Drive and Dance, organized by the Master Butchers' Association.

LAUNCESTON (CORNWALL). — Meeting and display of films at the Cinema.

NEWTOX ABBOT (DEVONSHIRE). — House-to-house Collection.

OKEHAMPTOX (DEVOXSHIRE).—Meeting and display of films at the Cinema.

OXFORD (OXFORDSHIRE).—Life-boat Day. "' At Home " to collectors, with Life-boat Address.

PORTSMOUTH (HAMPSHIRE). — Annual Meeting. The Annual Report showed that £417 had been raised, as compared with £429 in the previous year. Presentation by the Lady Mayoress of the Challenge Shield (South of England), won by Harold Mills, Drayton Road Boys' School, Portsmouth.

SALCOMBE AXD HOPE COVE (Dsvox).

—Annual Meeting on 9th October. The Annual Report showed that £173 had been raised, as compared with £162 in the previous year. A special vote of thanks was passed to Mrs. Street, Mrs.

Prowse and Mrs. Trevenar for their efforts in obtaining the largest sum so far raised by the Branch.

SHERBORXE (DORSET).—Special meeting organized by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild to increase interest in the Institution.

Speakers : Rear-Admiral Isorris, C.B., C.M.G., the Rev. Canon S. H.

Wingfield Digby and Mr. George F.

Shee, 31.A.. Secretary of the Institution.

SWIXDOX (WILTSHIRE). — Special meeting arranged by the Mayoress.

WINCHESTER (HAMPSHIRE) . —Houseto- house Collection, Bridge Drive, Sale and Tea. Both organized by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

Scotland.

ARBROATH (FORFARSHIRE).—Whist Drive.

ARDRISHAIG (ARGYLLSHIRE).—Whist Drive, Children's Concert.

BRIDGE OF ALLAX (STIRLIXGSHIRE).— Life-boat Day.

CAMPBELTOWX, MACHRIHAXISH AXD SOUTHEXD (ARGYLLSHIRE). — Annual Meeting on 15th October, Ex-Provost Mitchell, Chairman, presiding. The Annual Report showed that there had been one launch on service, 15 lives being rescued, and that £173 had been raised, as compared with £172 in the previous year.

DUMFRIES (DUMFRIES-SHIRE). — Address by Captain A. S. Balfour, O.B.E., a member of the Edinburgh Committee.

DfMBARTOX (l)UMBARTOXSHTRE).— Life-boat Day.

DUNDEE (FORFARSHIHE).—Annual Meeting on 5th October. Speaker : The Duke of Montrose, Chairman of the Scottish Council. The Annual Report showed that there had been one launch on service of the Broughty Ferry Lifeboat, and that £385 had been raised as compared with £170 in the previous year. The reason for this increase is that the bulk of the 1927 House-to-House Collection was received just after the close of the financial year, so that the 1928 figure includes this part of the 1927 Collection.

EDIXBURGH.—Annual Meeting on 20th November. Speakers : The Senior Magistrate (Bailie Hay), Admiral Sir John F. E. Green, Captain C. K.

M'Intosh, R.N.R., and Dr. A. Darling.

The Annual Report showed that £1,978 had been raised as compared with £1,595 in the previous year.

GOUROCK (REXFREWSHIRE).—Whist Drive arranged by the Ladies' Guild.

JOHXSTOXE (RENFREWSHIRE).—Lifeboat Day.

KILMARXOCK (AYRSHIRE).—Address to the Rotary Club.

KIRKCUDBRIGHT (KIRKCUDBRIGHTSHIRE).

—Annual Meeting on 30th November, Dr. Norris presiding. The Annual Report showed that £137 had been collected as compared with £102 in the previous year.

MoXTHOSE (FORFARSHIRE).—Whist Drive.

MOTHERWELL (LAXARKSHIRE).—Lifeboat Day.

NEWBURGH (ABERDEEXSHIRE). — Ladies' Life-boat Guild formed. Address by Captain A. S. Balfour, O.B.E., a member of the Committee of the Edinburgh Branch.

PAISLEY boat Day.

(REXFREWSHIRE).—Life- STOBNOWAY (ISLAND or LEWIS).— Whist Drive and Dance.

WISHAW (LANARKSHIRE).—Life-boat Day.

Thirty-four Lantern Lectures were given during the Quarter.

Ireland.

ABBEYFEALE (Co. LIMERICK).—Lifeboat Day.

CLONMEL (Co. TIPPERARY).—Lifeboat Day.

ENNIS (Co. CLARE).—Children's Dance.

ENNISKILLEN (Co. FERMANAGH).—By the death of Lady Mary Lowry-Corry on 5th October the Institution has lost an Honorary Secretary who, for over twenty years, had carried on the work of the Branch.

KILLORGLIN (Co. KERRY).—Life-boat Day.

LISTOWEL (Co. KERRY).—Life-boat Day.

NEWCASTLE WEST (Co. LIMERICK).— Life-boat Day.

PORTRUSH (Co. ANTRIM).—Cinema Entertainment and Cinema Collection.

TUAM (Co. GAL WAY) .—Branch formed.

Honorary Treasurer, Mr. W. F. Purcell ; Honorary Secretary, Mr. R. M.

Burke. Dance.

WATERFORD (Co. WATERFORD).— Life-boat Day.

WEXFORD (Co. WEXFORD).—Lifeboat Day.

Wales.

(Including Herefordshire and Shropshire.) ABERGAVENNY (MONMOUTHSHIRE).— Whist Drive.

BANGOR (CAERNARVONSHIRE).—Concert.

BASCHURCH (SALOP).—Church service.

CONWAY (CAERNARVONSHIRE). — Dance at which the Mayor and Mayoress were present, the Mayor making a special appeal.

NEWPORT (MONMOUTHSHIRE).—Whist Drive.

WELLINGTON (SALOP).—Whist Drive..