THE Dundee Life-boat Day this summer was an outstanding event. The Honorary Secretary, Mr. Lindsay, and his Life-boat Day Sub-Committee had j the very generous help of Mr. Kalph (.'. Cowper, the General Manager of the Dundee, Perth and London Shipping Co., who spared nothing to make the Day a, success, and, for some weeks before had a large part of his staff engaged in making arrangements for the appeal. The day before the Day the Shipping Company gave a luncheon party on board one of its vessels at which seventy guests were present, including the Lord Provost (Sir William High) and Commander the Hon. A. D.

Cochrane, D.S.O., Vice-Chairman of the Scottish Council, who gave a short address. At this luncheon £100 was subscribed.

On the Day itself, through the influence of Mr. Cowper. the offices of the shipping companies were specially decorated, as were also the steamers of the Dundee, Perth and London Shipping Company in the harbour, while a number of shops had Life-boat pictures and models in their windows. The Montrose and Broughty Ferry Motor Life-boats gave a demonstration off the esplanade. This was followed by a procession through the town in which the Arbroath Life-boat (brought over at the expense of the Dundee, Perth and London Shipping Company) took part, and afterwards the Tay Boat Clubs held a regatta in. King William Docks.

In short, the whole city took part in the Day, and that no one might miss the opportunity of contributing, a special appeal had been made in the Press by the President of the Branch, asking all who might be absent on the Day, to contribute in advance.

The Day was easily a record. It raised over £700, while last year the total collection of the Branch and the Guild for the whole year was £385.

It only remains to say that the Dundee, Perth & London Shipping Company, to whose generous help this success was so largely due, were the owners of the Forfor shire, wrecked off the Northumberland coast in 1838, whose nine survivors, out of sixty-three, were rescued by Grace Bailing and her father..