OWING to the space taken by the accounts of the winter gales and the report of the Prince of Wales's visit to Edinburgh and Glasgow, it has been.

necessary to hold over a number of articles and reports which otherwise would have appeared in this issue.

Among these are an illustrated article on the new fast type of Motor Life-boat for Dover, already described in the issue for March 1929 ; reports of the re- opening of the Shoreham Station with a Motor Life-boat, the District Con- ferences held at Harrogate, Truro and Taunton, and the presentation of Centenary Vellums at Sunderland, Hart- lepool and Newhaven ; the broadcast appeal from London by ex-Coxswain Swan, of Lowestoft, which brought in nearly 1,700 contributions, amounting to nearly £750; an article on Grace Darling's coble at the North East Coast Exhibition at Newcastle, and the arrangements which are being made, with the generous help of Lord Armstrong, to found a permanent house for it at Bamburgh, where Grace Darling is buried ; an account of the Bridlington Memorial Service for the lives lost in the great gale of 12th February, 1871, and a chapter from Major-General Seely's book of reminiscences, " Adventure," describ- ing a Life-boat Service in which he took part as a member of the Brooke (Isle of Wight) Life-boat Crew.