1st April to 30th June.

Greater London.

GREATER LONDON. — Meeting of London members of the Ladies' Lifeboat Guild at the house of the Duchess of Sutherland, President of the Guild.

Address by Rear-Admiral T. P. H.

Beamish, C.B., M.P., a member of the Committee of Management.

Life-boat Day on 24th April.

ACTON AND CHISWICK (MIDDLESEX).— Annual Meeting. Amount collected last year £114, as compared with £82 in the previous year.

ASHSORD (MIDDLESEX).—Meeting of Life-boat Helpers. Ladies' Life-boat Guild formed. Hon. Secretary, Mrs.

A. C. Hetherington.

BARNES (SURREY).—Dance.

BLACKHEATH (LONDON).—Special meeting, with Sir George Hume, M.P., in the chair. Speaker: Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., Chairman of the Committee of Management of the Institution.

Branch formed. Hon. Secretary, Mrs.

Field.

BRIXTON.—Address to the Rotary Club by the District Organising Secretary.

EPPING (ESSEX).—Life-boat Day.

ERITH (KENT).—Address to the Brotherhood by Lieut.-Col. C. R. Satterthwaite, O.B.E., R.E., Deputy Secretary of the Institution.

FOREST HILL (LONDON).—Visit of Life-boat Day workers to the Institution's Storeyard.

FULHAM (LONDON).—Collection on the Fulham Football Club ground.

HAYES—Ladies' Life-boat Guild visit to Messrs. Huntley & Palmers; new members enrolled.

ILFORD (ESSEX).—Social and Whist Drive. Ladies' Life-boat Guild At- Home ; address by the District Organising Secretary.

KINGSTON (SURREY).—Address to the Rotary Club by the District Organising Secretary.

LEYTON (ESSEX).—Address to the Rotary Club by the District Organising Secretary.

NEW MALDEN (SURREY).—Whist Drive.

PURLEY AND COULSDON (SURREY).— Branch formed. Hon. Secretary, Mr.

G. Gray.

ST. ALBANS.—Bridge Drive.

TOTTENHAM.—Address to the Rotary Club by the District Organising Secretary.

WEALDSTONE (MIDDLESEX). — Lantern Lecture by the Rev. A. Peckham, Chairman of the Harrow and District Branch.

WESTMINSTER.—Collection at the Lyceum Theatre.

WOODFORD.—Concert by the Primrose League Buds.

Four Talks or Lantern Lectures were given during the quarter.

North'Wettera District.

ADLINGTON (LANGS.).—Life-boat Day.

Jumble Sale, arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

BACUP (LANCS.).—Life-boat Day.

BARROW-IN-FURNESS (L A N o s.). — Whist Drive and Fete.

BILLINGE (LANCS.).—Life-boat Day.

BLACKBURN (LANCS.).—Annual Meeting on 23rd April. Amount collected £295, as compared with £233 in the previous year.

BLACKPOOL (LANCS.).—Annual Meeting on 27th June, the Mayor of Blackpool, President of the Branch, in the chair. Special Effort of the past year : Life-boat Day. Amount collected last year £560, as compared with £431 in the previous year.

BRIERCLIFFE (LANCS.). — Life-boat Day.

BRIERFIELD (LANCS.). — Life-boat Day.

BURNLEY (LANCS.).—American Tea, arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

BUKY (LANCS.).—Annual Meeting on 26th March. The Mayor, President of the Branch, in the chair. Amount collected last year £150, as compared with £171 in the previous year.

Life-boat Day.

CARLISLE (CUMBERLAND).—Life-boat Day.

CHESTER (CHESHIRE).—Annual Meeting on 13th May. The Mayor in the chair. Speaker : Mr. Jerrett, F.I.C.S.

Special Efforts of the past year : Mayoral Appeal for Subscriptions and Life-boat Day. Amount collected last year £310. the same amount as in the previous year.

Life-boat Day.

CHORLEY (LANCS.).—Life-boat Day.

CHURCH (LANCS.).—Life-boat Day.

CLAYTON-LE-MOORS (LANCS.).—Lifeboat Day.

COLNE (LANCS.).—Life-boat Day.

COPPULL (LANCS.).—Life-boat Day.

CREWE (CHESHIRE).—Life-boat Days.

CULCHETH-WITH-KENYON (LANCS.).— Life-boat Day.

DALTON-IN-FURNESS (LANCS.).— House-to-House Collection.

DARWEN (LANCS.).—Life-boat Day.

GARSTANG (LANCS.).—Life-boat Day.

GOLBORNE (LANCS.).—Life-boat Day.

GRANGE-OVER-SANDS (LANCS.).—Cafe Chantant arranged by the Ladies' Lifeboat Guild.

HASLINGDEX (LANCS.).—Annual Meeting on 15th April. Amount collected £42, as compared with £45 in the previous year.

Life-boat Day.

HAYDOCK AND ASHTON-IN-MAKERFIELD (LAXCS.).—Life-boat Day.

HEYWOOD (LANCS.).—Life-boat Day.

HINDLEY (LANCS.).—Life-boat Day.

HOLME (LANCS.).—Annual Meeting on 16th April. Amount collected last year £11, as compared with £7 in the previous year.

HOYLAKE (CHESHIRE). — Life-boat Sunday, with procession and special service. Presentation of the Binoculars awarded by the Institution to Mr.

D. W. Hesslegrave, the Honorary Secretary.

HYDE (CHESHIRE).—Annual Meeting on 4th April, the Mayor, President of the Branch, in the chair. Amount collected last year £75, as compared with £29 in the previous year. The resignation of Mr. J. W. Danby, Chief Constable, from the Hon. Treasurership, was accepted with regret. He was thanked for his past services and elected a Vice-Presideut.

Life-boat Day.

IRLAM (LANCS.).—Life-boat Day.

LANCASTER (LANCS.).—Whist Drive arranged by Toe H. Collection at the Palladium.

LEIGH (LANCS.).—Garden P a r t y organised by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Life-boat Day.

LITTLE HULTON (LANCS.).—Life-boat ! Day. | LITTLEBOROUGH (LANCS.).—Garden Party arranged by the Ladies' Lifeboat Guild.

LYMM AND HEATLEY (CHESHIRE).— i Dance arranged by the Ladies' Life- j boat Guild. Life-boat Day.

LYTHAM (LANCS.).—Annual Meeting on 10th May. Special Effort of the past year : Life-boat Day. Amount collected last year £199, as compared with £207 in the previous year.

MACCLESFIELD (CHESHIRE).—Annual Meeting on 19th March. Amount colj lected last year £146, as compared with £133 in the previous year.

'Life-boat Days.

MANCHESTER AND SALFORD (LANCS.).

—Special Meeting of tie Ladies' Lifeboat Guild at the Manchester Town Hall, at which Lady Stanley of Alderley accepted office as Honorary Secretary in succession to the late Lady Sheffield.

Collections on the occasion of the visit of the Flotilla of Destroyers to the Manchester Docks.

Life-boat Day.

SALFORD.—Flannel Dance arranged by the Guild. The Mayor and Mayoress of Salford were present, and many of the Officers from the Flotilla of Destroyers, following a " Lancashire High Tea," given to them in the afternoon by the Mayor.

MARYPORT (CUMBERLAND).—Garden Party arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, and held at Netherhall Grounds by permission of Colonel Pocklington Senhouse, President of the Branch.

MIDDLETON (LANCS.). — Life-boat Day.

MIDDLEWICH (CHESHIRE).—Life-boat Day.

NEW BRIGHTON (CHESHIRE).—Annual Meeting on 12th June, Mr. S. S. Jerrett, Chairman of the Branch, presiding.

Amount collected last year £18, as compared with £13 in the previous year, while the Wallasey and New Brighton section of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild collected £243, as compared with £314 in the previous year. Mr. Stuart Deacon (Stipendiary Magistrate of Liverpool) was elected President, in the place of Mr. Charles Livingston. The Meeting was followed by the annual hot-pot supper which the Committee give to the Life-boat Crew.

NEWTON-IN-MAKERFIELD (LANCS.).— | Life-boat Day.

ORRELL (LANCS.).—American Tea and Garden Party organised by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

f~ OSWALDTWISTLE (LANCS.).—Life-boat Day.

PEEL (!SLE OF MAN).—Annual Meeting on 29th May. Special Efforts of the past year : Life-boat Sunday, Lifeboat Day, Dance and Sports. Amount collected last year £139, as compared with £147 in the previous year.

PRESTON (LANCS.).—Annual Meeting on 6th May, Alderman Durham in the chair. Special efforts of the past year : House-to-House Collection and Life-boat Day. Amount collected last year £398, as compared with £422 in the previous year.

Life-boat Day.

RAMSBOTTOM (LANCS.). — S p e c i a l Meeting held on 10th May. Ladies' Life-boat Guild formed. President, Miss M. Cain ; Hon. Secretary, Miss N. R.

Peake.

Dance organised by the Ladies' Lifeboat Guild.

RISHTON (LANCS.).—Life-boat Day.

ROMILEY (CHESHIRE). — Life-boat Days.

SHAW AND CROMPTON (LANCS.).— Life-boat Day.

SOUTHPORT (LANCS.). — Annual Meeting on 6th May, the Mayor of Southport in the chair. Special Effort of the past year: Appeal by the Lady Mayoress, Life-boat Day. Amount collected last year £457, as compared with £510 in the previous year.

Life-boat Day.

STOCKPORT (CHESHIRE).—Life-boat Day.

TOTTINGTON (LANCS.).—House-to- House Collection.

TRAWDEN (LANCS.).—Life-boat Day.

WARRINGTON (LANCS.). — Annual Meeting on 26th March, the Mayor, President of the Branch, in the chair.

Amount collected last year £264, as compared with £212 in the previous year.

WEST HOUGHTON (LANCS.).—Lifeboat Day.

WIDNES (LANCS.).—Life-boat Day.

WIGAN (LANCS.).—Whist Drive arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

WORSTHORNE (LANCS.). — Annual Meeting on 7th May, the Rev. H. Stones, M.A., President of the Branch, in the chair. Special Efforts of the past year : Life-boat Day, House-to-House Collection.

Amount collected last year £16, as compared with £13 in the previous year.

North-Eastern District.

BARNSLEY (YoRKS.). — Life-boat Day.

1 BEVERLEY (YORKS.).—House-to- House collection.

BLAYDON (DURHAM).—Life-boat Day.

BOLTON-UPON-DEARNE ( YORKS.).— House-to-House collection.

BLYTH ( N O R T H U M B E R L A N D ) .— Special Meeting, with the Mayor, the President, in the chair. Mr. J. W.

Hogarth elected Chairman.

BRADFORD (YoKKS.).—Life-boat Day.

BRIGHOUSE ( YORKS.). — Life-boat Day.

CONJSBOROUGH (YORKS.).—Life-boat Day.

CUDWORTH (YORKS.).—House-to- House collection.

DARLINGTON (YORKS.). — Whist Drive organised by the Ladies' Lifeboat Guild, the Mayor and Mayoress being present. At Home. Life-boat Day.

DEWSBURY ( YORKS.). — House-to- House Collection.

DINNINGTON (NORTHUMBERLAND).— Meeting of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, with Lady Reed, the President, in the chair. Address by the District Organising Secretary.

DONCASTER (YoRKS.).—Life-boat Day.

DURHAM.—Life-boat Day.

GATESHEAD (DURHAM). — Life-boat Day. Special Parade by Naval Reserve Men in boat on lorry. Garden Party, opened by Lady Marr, of the Sunderland Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

GOLCAR (YORKS.).—Life-boat Day.

HARTLEPOOL (DURHAM).—Life-boat Day. Ladies arranged a Fish Stall in the street.

HECKMONDWIKE (YORKS.).—Bridge Drive.

HOLMFIRTH (YoRKS.). —• Life-boat Day.

HOKNSEA (YoRKS.).—Garden Fete.

Sir Charles Wilson, M.P., Chairman of the Leeds Branch, presented Mrs. Hedley, the President, with the Gold Brooch, and Mr. Fenton, late Honorary Secretary, with the framed Life-boat picture, awarded them by the Institution.

HUDDERSFIELD (YoRKS.).—Garden Party at the residence of the Mayor.

HULL (YoRKS.).—Annual Meeting on 12th June in the Guild Hall, the Lord Mayor, President of the Branch, in the chair. Special Efforts of the past year : Life-boat Day, Matinee. Amount collected last year £699, as compared with £733 in the previous year.

Life-boat Day.

KEIGHLEY (YoRKS.). — Life-boat Week. Drawing-room meeting, the Mayoress presiding. Address by the District Organising Secretary.

MARSDEN (YoRKS.).—Annual Meeting on llth April. Amount collected last year £23, as compared with £20 in the previous year.

MIDDLESBROUGH (YoRKS.).—Annual Meeting on 10th June, the Mayor, President of the Branch, in the chair.

Sir Charles Wilson, M.P., Chairman of the Leeds Branch, presented the Gold Pendant, awarded by the Institution, to the Honorary Secretary, Mr. J. H.

Amos. Special Efforts of the past year : Life-boat Day, Special Appeal for Crown subscribers. Amount collected last year £352, as compared with £214 in the previous year.

NORTON (YORKS.).—Life-boat Day.

O SETT AND HORBURY (YoRKS.).— House-to-House Collections by Rovers in Horbury District.

OUTWOOD AND STANLEY (YoRKS.).— Life-boat Day.

POCKLINGTON (YoRKS.). — Life-boat Day.

RAWMARSH (YoRKS.). —• Life-boat Day. Dance.

ROTHERHAM (YORKS.). — Life-boat Day.

RYTON (DURHAM).—Annual Meeting.

Amount collected last year £30, as compared with £28 in the previous year.

Life-boat Day.

SELBY (YORKS.).—Life-boat Day.

SHEFFIELD (YoRKS.).—Annual Meeting, the Lord Mayor, President of the Branch, in the chair. Speakers : the Bishop of Sheffield and Sir W. H.

Hadow, Vice-Chancellor of the University.

Special Efforts of the past year : Life-boat Day, American Tea, and Special Appeal by the Chairman of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Amount collected last year £582, as compared with £588 in the previous year.

SOWERBY BRIDGE (YoRKS.).—Lifeboat Day.

SPENBOROUGH ( YORKS.).—Life-boat Day.

STAINLAND ( YORKS.). — House-to- House collection.

STAITHES (YoRKS.).—Religious service held in celebration of the anniversary of the re-opening of the Station, followed by a launch of the Boat, a Public Tea, and a Whist Drive and Dance.

SUNDERLAND (DURHAM.)—Life-boat Day.

TYNEMOUTH (YoRKS.). — Life-boat Day.

WAKEFIELD (YoRKS.).—Two Whist Drives.

WEST HARTLEPOOL (DURHAM).—Lifeboat Day.

WHITLEY BAY (NORTHUMBERLAND).

—Collection in the Picture Houses, carried out by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

WITHERNSEA (YoRKS.). — Life-'boat Day.

Midlands.

ALDERWASLEY (DERBYSHIRE).—Lifeboat Day.

BELPER (DERBY).—Life-boat Day.

BIRMINGHAM.—Annual Meeting, the Lord Mayor, President of the Branch, in the chair. Speaker : Mr. John Scott, O.B.E. Amount collected last year £1,513, as compared with £1,283 in the previous year. Presentation of the Gold Pendants, awarded by the Institution to Mr. George Ward, Vice-Chairman, and Mr. H. H. Cooke, a member of the General and Executive Committees. A number of new District Presidents were appointed.

Police Concert, House-to-House collection, and Theatre collections.

BRISTOL (GLOS.).—Life-boat Day.

BURTON LATIMER (NORTHANTS.).— Life-boat Day.

BURTON-ON-TRENT (STAFFS.).—Lifeboat Day. Life-boat visited town and neighbouring villages.

CHELTENHAM (Gi-os.). — Life-boat Day.

COSELEY AND SEDGLEY (STAFFS.).— Life-boat Day. .

CRADLEY HEATH (STAFFS.).—Lifeboat Day.

DAVENTRY (NORTHANTS.).—Visit of Life-boat.

DESBOROUGH (NORTHANTS.). — Lifeboat Day.

FAIRFORD AND LECHLADE (GLOS.).— Life-boat Day.

GRIMSBY AND CLEETHORPES (Lixcs.).

—Special Meeting of the Grimsby Ladies' Life-boat Guild, when a presentation was made to Mrs. Boothby on her resignation from the Honorary Secretaryship.

The Branch has also suffered a serious loss by the resignation of Captain H. B.

Boothby, D.S.O., R.N., from the Hon.

Secretaryship, which he has held since 1911. Captain and Mrs. Boothby have moved to Littlehampton, where they hope to continue to help the Institution.

IRTHLINGBOROUGH (NORTHANTS.).— Life-boat Day.

LANGWITH (NOTTS.).—Life-boat Day.

LEEK (STAFFS.).—Life-boat Day.

LICHFIELD (STAFFS.).—Life-boat Day.

LINCOLN (LiNCS.).—Life-boat Day.

LONG EATON (DERBY). — Life-boat Day, organised by the Fire Brigade.

Visit of Life-boat.

LOUGHBOBOUGH (Lsics.).—Life-boat Day.

MALVERN (WORCESTERSHIRE).—Lecture to the boys of Malvern School by Lieut.-Col. C. R. Satterthwaite, O.B.E., Deputy-Secretary of the Institution (in March).

MATLOCK (DERBY).—Life-boat Day.

NOTTINGHAM (NOTTS.). — Life-boat Day. Life-boat taken through the city.

NUNEATON (WARWICK). — Life-boat Day.

OAKHAM AND UPPINGHAM (RUTLAND).

—Life-boat Day.

PERSHORE (WoRcs.).—Life-boat Day.

RUGBY (WARWICK).—Life-boat Day.

RUGELEY (STAFFS.).—Life-boat Day.

SHIPSTON - ON - STOUR (WoRcs.). — Life-boat Day.

STAFFORD (STAFFS.).—Addresses to Too H and the Rotary Club by the District Organising Secretary.

STOURBRIDGE AND AMBLECOTE (WoRCS.).—Life-boat Day.

SlOW-ON-THE-WoLD (GLOS.).—Lifeboat Day.

SWADLINCOTE (DERBY). — Branch formed. Honorary Secretary, Miss May Badkin.

UPPINGHAM (RUTLAND).—Address to Uppingham School and Members of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, by Mr. George F. Shee, M.A., Secretary of the Institution.

• UPTON-ON-SEVERN (WoRcs.).—Lifeboat Day.

WALSALL (STAFFS.).—Annual Meeting on 12th June, the Mayor, President of the Branch, in the chair. New Chairman, Honorary Secretary and Committee appointed. Amount collected last year £89, as compared with £42 in the previous year.

Life-boat Day.

WARWICK. — Annual Meeting.

Amount collected last year £43.

WELLINGBOROUGH (NORTHANTS.).— Life-boat Dav. Visit of Life-boat.

WOLVEEHAMPTON (STAFFS.). — Lifeboat Day, with a Life-boat taken through the streets, and a special openair service.

WRAGBY (LINGS.).—Life-boat Day.

Carnival Dance.

Seven Lectures were given by the District Organising Secretary during the quarter.

South-Eastern District.

BEDFORD (BEDS.).—Pageant organised by the Rotary Club. (See special report.) BRENTWOOD (ESSEX). — Life-boat Day.

BRIGHTON AND HOVE (SUSSEX).— Garden Party. Speaker : Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., Chairman of the Committee of Management.

BURNHAM (BUCKS.).—Life-boat Day.

CAMBRIDGE.—Lecture to St. Faith's School, by Mr. J. F. Lamb, a member of the Committee of Management (in March).

CHELMSFORD (Esssx). — Life-boat Day.

CRAWLEY, THREE BRIDGES AND WORTH (Susssx). — Branch formed.

Honorary Secretary, Miss Moorhouse.

Diss (NORFOLK).—Life-boat Day.

DOWNHAM MARKET (NORFOLK).—Lifeboat Day.

GRAVESEND (KENT).—Life-boat Day.

HASTINGS (SUSSEX).—Annual Meeting on 26th June, the Mayor, President of the Branch, in the chair. Speaker : Captain the Earl Howe, C.B.E., V.D., A.D.C., R.N.V.R., a member of the Committee of Management. Amount collected last yi ar £288, as compared with £230 in the previous year.

HORSHAM (SUSSEX).—Life-boat Day.

KING'S LYNN (NORFOLK).—Life-boat Day.

LITTLEHAMPTON (SUSSEX).—Dance.

LETCHWORTH (HERTS.). — Life-b3at Day.

LEWES (SUSSEX).—Life-boat Day.

MALDON (ESSEX).—Life-boat Day.

SANDWICH (KENT).—Life-boat Day.

SEAFORD (SUSSEX).—Life-boat Day.

WELWYN GARDEN CITY (HERTS.).— Life-boat Day.

WOLVERTON (BuCKS.). — Life-boat Day.

Two Lectures given by the District Organising Secretary during the quarter.

South-Westem Districts.

BASINGSTOKE (HANTS.). — Special Meeting to re-establish the Branch.

Tea provided by the Mayoress.

BATH (SOMERSET).—Life-boat Day.

BOURNEMOUTH (HANTS.).—Annual Meeting on 10th May, with the Mayor, a Vice-President of the Branch, in the chair. Speaker : Mr. George F. Shee, M.A., Secretary of the Institution.

Amount collected last year £940, as compared with £785 in the previous year.

BRIDPORT (DORSET).—House-to- House collection.

EMSWORTH AND DISTRICT (HANTS.).

—New Branch formed. Hon. Secretary, Mr. A. L. C. Stewart.

EXETER (DEVON).—Life-boat Day.

DEVIZES (WILTS.).—Life-boat Day.

FALMOUTH (CORNWALL). —Ladies' Life-boat Guild formed. Hon. Secretary, Mrs. J. Eogers.

HENLEY (OXFORDSHIRE).—Life-boat Day.

HONITON (DEVON).—House-to- House collection.

PAIGNTON (DEVON).—Dancing Display.

PLYMOUTH (DEVON).—Life-boat Day.

READING (BERKS.).—Life-boat Day.

SOUTHAMPTON (HANTS.).—Life-boat Day.

STREET (SOMERSET).—Dancing Display.

TIVERTON (DEVON).—New Branch formed. Hon. Secretary, Mrs. Mills.

TRURO (CORNWALL).—Annual Meeting.

Amount collected last year £85, as compared with £84 in the previous year.

Address by the District Organising Secretary to the Rotary Club. Life-boat Day.

Scotland.

SCOTTISH LIFE-BOAT COUNCIL.—The half-yearly meeting of the Scottish Lifeboat Council was held in Glasgow on 8th. May, the Duke of Montrose, Chairman of the Council, presiding. Eight new members were welcomed to the Council, and Mr. J. Ramsay Smith, Hon. Secretary of the Peebles Branch, was presented with the Gold Pendant awarded him by the Institution.

BIGGAR (LANARK).—Life-boat Day.

CARLUKE (LANARK).—Life-boat Day.

COATBRIDGE (LANARK).—Ladies' Life-boat Guild formed. Hon. Secretary, Miss C. J. Kerr.

DORNOCH (SUTHERLAND).—New Branch formed. Hon. Secretary, Mr.

J. G. Phimister.

DUNDEE (FORFAR).—Life-boat Day.

(See special report.) Address to the Rotary Club by the District Organising Secretary.

DUNOON (AYR).—Ladies' Life-boat Guild formed. President, Mrs. Colin Turner ; Vice-President, Mrs. McArthur Moir ; Hon. Secretary, Miss Helen McLeod.

EASTER Ross (ROSS-SHIRE).—Branch formed. Honorary Secretary, Mr. J.

Macdonald.

EDINBURGH.—Life-boat Day.

ELGIN (ELGIN).—Life-boat Day.

FALKIRK (STIRLING).—Life-boat Day.

FOCHABERS (ELGIN).—Life-boat Day.

FORFAR (FORFARSHIRE).—Branch formed. Hon. Secretary, Mr. Charles Smith.

FORRES (ELGIN).—Branch formed.

Hon. Secretary, Mr. Andrew McLean.

' ~FHASERBURGH (ABERDEENSHIRE).— Presentation of the Awards made for the service to the Steam-trawler Clio in January, 1912. (See report of the Annual Meeting of the Institution in the last issue of The Lifeboat.) GLASGOW.—Annual Meeting on 22nd May, Mr. Leonard Gow, J.P., Chairman of the Branch, presiding. Special Efforts of the past year : Life-boat Day ; Reception on board the Anchor Liner Transylvania for the formation of Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Amount collected last year £4,148, as compared with £3,512 in the previous year. Mr.

J. W. Harper Gow, the son of Mr.

Leonard Gow, was elected Hon. Secretary, in place of Mr. Fred Bedford, who had resigned.

Address given by the District Organising Secretary to the Glasgow Rotary Club. Life-boat Dav.

(RENFREW). — Life-boat (STIRLING).—Life- GOUROCK Day.

GRANGEMOUTH boat Day.

GREENOCK (RENFREW).—Life-boat Day.

HELENSBURGH (DUMBARTON).— Life-boat Day.

INVERKEITHING (FIFE).—Life-boat Day.

KINGUSSIE (INVERNESS).—Life-boat ! Day.

| KIRKCALDY (FIFE).—Ladies' Lifeboat Guild formed. President, Mrs.

Alexander Hutchison ; Vice-President, Mrs. R. W. Honeyman ; Hon. Secretary, Miss J. S. Mitchell.

KIRKCUDBRIGHT (KIRKCUDBRIGHT).

Entertainment by the students of Edinburgh Castle Douglas High School Club during their Easter vacation.

KlRKINTILLOCH (DUMBARTON).—Lifeboat Day.

LAMINGTON (LANARK). — Life-boat LANARK (LANARK).—Life-boat Day.

MILLPORT (BUTE).—Life-boat Day.

MOFFAT (DUMFRIES).—Life-boat Day.

NAIRN (NAIRN).—Ladies' Life-boat Guild formed. Hon. Secretary, Mrs.

Fleming.

Concert and Exhibition of Films.

NEWTONMORE (INVERNESS). — Lifeboat Day.

PERTH (PERTHSHIRE). — Life-boat Days.

ROTHES (ELGIN).—Life-boat Day.

SELKIRK (SELKIRK).—Life-boat Day.

SKELMORLIE (AYRSHIRE).—Life-boat Day.

Ireland.

ATHY (Co. KILDARE). — Branch formed. Hon. Secretary, Miss Reeves. | BELFAST.—Annual Meeting on 13th May, the Lord Mayor, President of the i Branch, in the chair. Speakers : The j Viscount Bangor. Col. the Right Hon.

Sharman Crawford, C.B.E., D.L., P.C., and Mr. George F. Shee, M.A., Secretary of the Institution. Amount collected last year £874, as compared with £634 in the previous year.

Fancy Dress Ball. Life-boat Days.

Life-boat Fete. (See special report.) Skating Carnival opened by the Lord Mayor. Broadcasting talk by the Dis- j trict Organising Secretary.

BOYLE (Co. ROSCOMMON).—Jumble Sale.

COLERAINE (LONDONDERRY). — Lifeboat Day.

COURTMACSHERRY (Co. CORK).—Lifeboat Day.

DROGHEDA (Co. LOUTH).—Life-boat Day.

DUBLIN.—Annual Meeting on 15th May, Senator the Right Hon. Andrew Jameson, D.L., Chairman of the Branch, presiding. Speaker: Mr. George F.

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

Amount collected last year £1,208, as compared with £974 in the previous year.

GALWAY (Co. GAL WAY).—Annual Meeting on 16th May, the Chairman of the Council presiding. Amount collected last year £91, as compared with £46 in the previous year.

Life-boat Day.

KINGSTOWN (Co. DUBLIN).—Annual Meeting on 14th May, Captain A. Fosberry Holmes, Chairman of the Branch, presiding. Speaker : Mr. George F.

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

Amount collected last year £215, as compared with £181 in the previous year.

LAENE (Co. ANTRIM).—Annual Meeting, Mr. S. W. Hill, M.B., Chairman of the U.D.C. and President of the Branch, in the chair. Amount collected last year £96, as compared with £83 in the previous year.

Life-boat Day.

LISBURN (Co. ANTRIM).—Annual Meeting on 10th May. Amount collected last year £168, as compared with £141 in the previous year.

Life-boat Day.

LONDONDEREY.—Life-boat Day.

LURGAN (Co. ARMAGH).—Annual Meeting on 21st May, Mr. H. C. Malcolm, U.D.C., President of the Branch, in the chair. Amount collected last year £67, as compared with £69 in the previous year.

MIDDLETON (Co. CORK).—Life-boat Day.

POETEUSH (Co. ANTRIM).—Life-boat Day.

TANDRAGEE (Co. ARMAGH).—Branch formed. President, Mrs. White ; Hon.

Secretary, Mrs. Green. Life-boat Day.

TEMPLEPATRICK (Co. ANTRIM).— Whist Drive and Dance.

TIPPERARY (Co. TIPPERARY).—Lifeboat Day.

TRALEE (Co. KERRY).—Life-boat Day.

WATERFORD (Co. WATERFORD).— Annual Meeting, the Mayor, Chairman of the Branch, presiding. Amount raised last year £10, as compared with £76 in, the previous year. The reason for the fall was that Life-boat Day (£51) was not held until October, when the Branch financial year had closed.

WEXFORD (Co. WEXFORD).—Annual Meeting on 1st July, with Lady Maurice Fitzgerald, President of the Branch, in the chair. Speaker : Major-General B. J. C. Doran, C.B., Hon. Secretary of the Station until it was closed in 1925, when the Life - boat establishment was transferred to Rosslare Harbour.

Amount collected £62.

Dance.

Wales.

(Including Herefordshire and Shropshire.) 'ABERTILLEEY (MoN.).—Annual Meeting, with Mrs. A. M. Dolman, President of the Branch, in the chair.

Amount collected last year £24, the same amount as in the previous year.

Life-boat Day.

BUCKLEY (FLINT).—Life-boat Day.

CARDIFF (GLAM.).—Life-boat Day.

CARNARVON (CARNARVON).—Lifeboat Day.

DENBIGH (DENBIGH).—Life-boat Day.

LLANELLY (CARM.).—Life-boat Day.

LLANGOLLEN AND CHIRK (DENBIGH).

—Special meeting at which a Guild was formed, with Lord Trevor presiding. President, Lady Trevor ; Hon. Secretary, Mrs. Vaughan Roberts.

NEATH (GLAM.).—Life-boat Day.

NEWPORT (SALOP).—Life-boat Day.

OSWESTRY (SALOP).—Life-boat Day.

PONTYPRIDD (GLAM.). — House-to- House Collection. .Life-boat Days.

FORTH (GLAM.).—Life-boat Day.

PRESTEIGNE (RADNOR).—Life-boat Day.

SWANSEA (GLAM.).—Annual Meeting, the Mayor, President of the Branch, in the chair. Amount collected last year £242, .as compared with £215 in the previous year.

Whist Drive, Garden Fete.

WELLINGTON (SALOP). — Life-boat Day.

WHITCHURCH (SALOP).—Life-boat Day.

Notice.

The next number of THE LIFEBOAT will be published in November, 1929.

When you have read this number will you kindly pass it on to a friend, unless you are keeping a complete set of the Journal ?.