From the Men of the Fleet.

A gift of £1,900 has been received from the Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes. This is a part of the profit made by the Naval Canteen trading during the past year, and it has been given to the Life-boat Service "in accordance with the wishes of the men of the Fleet." Last year the Institu- tion received a gift of. £1,300 from the profits of the Canteen. Our warm thanks are offered to " the men of the Fleet," who have thus again marked their sympathy and admiration for the Life-boat Service.

In Gratitude for the Life-boats' Help.

ON the 19th September last the Humber Motor Life-boat saved the motor-boat Curlew, of Whitby, and her two occu- pants. The Institution has received a contribution of £1 from Mr. Ralph Almond, who was a passenger in the motor-boat, and a letter saying that he intends to become an annual subscriber.

* * * * On the 5th October the Swanage Motor Life-boat rescued the two occu- pants of the yacht Gwynedd, which was in distress in Studland Bay. The owner, Dr. Neville Williams, of Harrogate, gave a donation of £17 to the Swanage Branch.

From Mid-Atlantic.

We have received a donation of 10s., with the following letter, which has no other address than " on the Atlantic":—"While a passenger on the Freighter Raby Castle I have read with interest your JOURNAL, and as I see that you do not despise the day of small things I would like to add this small donation to your fund for the Institution. With great admiration." A Seventh Line-throwing Gun.

Miss A. Hall, of Selhurst, who has already presented line-throwing guns for six Life-boats, has now given the Institution £20 for the gun on the new Clacton-on-Sea Motor Life-boat.

Invalid Girl's Bazaars.

Six years ago, a little girl at Bideford, Miss Ruby Snow, who is an invalid, held a bazaar in her bedroom for the Life-boats and made £1. In 1927 she held two more bazaars, the first making £3 10s. and the second £8 10s. Last September she held her fourth Life-boat Bazaar, and it made £14, so that she has now contributed £27 to the Institution.

In September, 1927, Miss Snow was presented with a Framed Photograph of a Life-boat going out to a vessel in distress.

Emergency Ration.

All the Life-boats of the Institution carry chocolate as an emergency ration, and each year Messrs. Fry, Messrs. Cad- bury and Messrs. Rowntree each present the Institution with 30 tins of chocolate.

As the supply was running short in September, Messrs. Fry kindly made an extra emergency gift of 20 tins of this emergency ration..