1st January Greater London.

CHELSEA.—Address to the Rotary Club by the District Organizing Secre- tary.

CHINGFORD (ESSEX).—Bridge and Whist Drive. Address by the Assistant District Organizing Secretary.

CBOYDON (SURREY).—Special meeting, with the Mayor presiding. Speaker: Colonel The Master of Sempill, a Member of the Committee of Management.

DEPTFORD.-—St. Catherine's Fellow- ship. Talk by Mr. Norton.

FINCHLEY.—Whist Drive.

FULHAM.—Life-boat Day.

HAMMERSMITH. — Special meeting, with the Mayor presiding. Speaker: Colonel The Master of Sempill, a Member of the Committee of Management.

HAREFIELD (MIDDLESEX).—Concert, with Lantern Lecture by the District Organizing Secretary.

HORNSEY.—Address to the Rotary Club by the District Organizing Secre- tary.

MITCHAM (SURREY).—Drawing-room Meeting. Branch formed.

NEW MALDEN (SURREY).—Address to the Rotary Club by the District Organiz- ing Secretary.

SUTTON (SURREY).—Life-boat Day and Theatrical Performance with talk by the District Organizing Secretary.

Bridge Drive.

TWICKENHAM (SURREY).—Address to the Rotary Club by the District Organiz- ing Secretary.

WALTHAMSTOW (ESSEX). — Concert.

Address by the District Organizing Secretary.

WESTMINSTER.—Presentation of the London District Challenge Shield and Certificates in the Life-boat Essay Com- petition by Major-General the Rt. Hon.

J. E. B. Seely, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., a Member of the Committee of Manage- ment, with the Mayor of Westminster presiding. (A full report appeared in the last issue of The Lifeboat.) Wardrobe sale.

WOODFORD AND EPPING (ESSEX).— It was stated in the last issue that the the Branches.

to 31st March.

Annual Meeting of the Woodford Ladies' Life-boat Guild had been held, the amount collected being £280 as com- pared with £176 in the previous year.

This should have been "Woodford and Epping " Guild.

Sixteen lectures and addresses were given by the District Organizing Secre- tary during the quarter in addition to those mentioned.

North-West of England.

ACCRINGTON (LANCS.)—Annual Meet- ing on the 19th February. Amount collected last year £183, as compared with £150 in the previous year.

Whist Drive, arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

BLACKPOOL (LANCS.)—Annual Meet- ing of the Branch held on the 6th March.

Amount collected last year £594, as com- pared with £560 in the previous year.

Bridge and Whist Drive, organized by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

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

BURNLEY (LANCS.)—Annual Meeting on 24th January. Amount collected last year £36, as compared with £140 in the previous year.

CARLISLE (CUMBERLAND). — Annual Meeting on 7th February, the Deputy Mayor (Mr. T. G. Charlton) in the chair.

Amount collected last year £328, as compared with £297 in the previous year.

Whist Drive.

CARNFORTH (LANCS.)—Annual Meet- ing on 21st January. Amount collected last year £93, as compared with £73 in the previous year.

Whist Drive.

COLNE (LANCS.).—Whist Drive and Dance.

COPPULL (LANCS.)—Annual Concert given by the Blackpool" Unity Singers." DUKINFIELD (CHESHIRE). — Whist Drive and Dance in the Town Hall.

HINDLEY (LANCS.)—Annual Meeting on 12th March. Amount collected last year £79.

Whist Drive. Carnival Dance.

HOLLINGWORTH (CHESHIRE).—Annual Meeting on 28th January.

Amount collected last year £66, as compared with £62 in the previous year.

Annual Dance.

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

KENDAL (CUMBERLAND).—Whist and Bridge Drive.

LANCASTER. •— Annual Meeting on 26th March. Amount collected last year £173, the same amount as in the previous year.

Collection at the Football Ground.

Cinema Collection. Jumble Sale.

LITTLEBOROUGH (LANCS.) — Cinema Collections.

LIVERPOOL.—Annual Meeting on 4th March, Mr. Charles Livingston, Deputy Chairman, presiding in the absence of the Lord Mayor. Amount collected last year £3,346, as compared with £4,342 in the previous year.

Bootle.—Service of Seamen at Christ Church, attended by members of the New Brighton Life-boat Crew.

Wallasey.—Annual Whist Drive and Dance, arranged by the Wallasey Ladies' Swimming Club.

Rock Ferry.—Life-Boat Service on board H.M. Training Ship Conway.

New Brighton.—Annual Meeting on 6th March. Crew entertained to dinner by the Committee.

MACCLESFIELD (CHESHIRE).—Annual Meeting on 25th March, the Mayor, President of the Branch, in the chair.

Amount collected last year £132, as compared with £146 in the previous year.

MANCHESTER, SALFORD AND DISTRICT.

•—Annual Meeting on the 12th February at the Manchester Town Hall, the Lord Mayor, President of the Branch, in the chair. Principal speaker : Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., Chairman of the Committee of Management of the Institution.

Among those present were : the Mayor and Mayoress of Salford, the Very Rev.

the Dean .of Manchester, Mr. Saul Adler, President of the Great Syna- gogue, Mr. E. G. D. Liveing, M.A., North Regional Director of the British Broadcasting Corporation, and Mr.

Cuming Walters, Editor of the Man- chester City News. Amount collected last year £3,973, as compared with £4,362 in the previous year. Captain W. C. Bacon was appointed Chairman of the Branch in succession to the late Sir William Milligan, and the Lady Mayoress of Manchester gave afternoon tea to the assembly.

Operatic Production " The Cabaret Girl" given by the South Manchester Operatic (Amateur) Society at the Opera House.

Blackley.—-Special Meeting. Ladies' Life-boat Guild formed.

Cheadle Hulme.—Christmas Day col- lection in the Parish Church.

Fallowfield.—Junior Guild Social.

Lantern Lecture at St. Chad's, Fallowfield, given by the Assistant Secretary.

Old TrafEord.—Annual Dance.

Prestwich.—" Household Shower and Pedlar's Fair," arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Miss Mona Vivian opened the proceedings, and the Chairman of the Council, Councillor J. Rowlands, J.P., was in the chair. A special feature of the afternoon was a Mannequin Parade arranged by Madame Grace Lord.

Sale and Brooklands.—Bridge Drive, arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

Hulme.—Special Meeting. Ladies' Life-boat Guild formed.

Salford.—Annual Meeting of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild on 27th March. Amount collected last year £58, as compared with £43 in the previous year.

Swinton and Pendlebury.—Special Meeting. Ladies' Life-boat Guild reconstituted.

NORTHWICH (CHESHIRE). — Annual Meeting on llth March. Amount col- lected last year £110, as compared with £177 in the previous year.

OLDHAM (LANCS.).—Annual Meeting on 10th February. Amount collected last year £295, as compared with £323 in the previous year.

Whist Drive and Dance in the Town Hall, arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

PIEL (BARROW) (LANCS.).—Concert given by the Shipyard Orchestral Society, arranged by the Ladies' Life- boat Guild. Whist Drive.

EISHTON (LANCS.).—Annual Ball.

KOCHDALE (LANCS.).—Annual Meet- ing on 22nd January. Amount collected last year £138, as compared with £125 in the previous year.

ST. ANNES-ON-SEA (LANCS.).—Annual Meeting on 14th March. Amount col- lected last year £127, as compared with £124 in the previous year.

STANDISH (LANCS.).—Whist Drive.

TOTTINGTON (LANCS.).—Whist Drive.

TKAWDEN (LANCS.).—Whist Drive and Dance.

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

WAREINGTON (LANCS.). — Annual Meeting on 19th March, the Mayor, President of the Branch, in the chair.

Amount collected last year £256, as compared with £264 in the previous year.

WHALEY BRIDGE (CHESHIRE).— Dramatic Performance given by the Whaley Bridge Play Club.

WIGAN (LANCS.).—Life-boat Day.

WORKINGTON (CUMBERLAND).—An- nual Dance.

North-East of England.

BARNSLEY (YoRKS.)—Annual Meet- ing. Special Efforts of the past year: Dance, Life-boat Day. Amount col- lected last year £70, as compared with £118 in the previous year.

Children's Ball.

BEDLINGTON (NORTHUMBERLAND).— Whist Drive.

BERWICK-ON-TWEED.—Whist Drives and Dance. Annual Supper to the Life-boat Crew, given by the Committee.

BLYTH (NORTHUMBERLAND).—Annual Meeting on 31st March, the Mayor, President of the Branch, in the chair.

Special Efforts of the past year: Sale of Work, Whist Drive and Special Appeal.

Amount collected last year £383, as com- pared with £371 in the previous year.

The Annual Meeting of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, the Mayoress, President of the Guild, in the chair, was held on the same day.

BRADFORD AND DISTRICT.-—Annual Meeting on 21st January, the Deputy Lord Mayor presiding. Special Efforts of past year : Life-boat Day, Matine'e, Concert. Amount collected last year £1,835, as compared with £1,941 in the previous year.

BRIDLINGTON (YoRKS.). — Annual Meeting of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild on 14th March, the Mayoress, President of the Guild, in the chair. Special Efforts of the past year : Organ Day, Concert and Whist Drives. Amount collected last year £84, as compared with £125 in the previous year.

Whist Drive and Dance organized by Mrs. Squire. Sunday Concert and Life- boat Play.

CAWTHORNE (YORKS.).—Whist Drive.

CRESSWELL (NORTHUMBERLAND).— Whist Drive and Dance.

DARLINGTON (DURHAM).—Afternoon Tea given by Mrs. Freeman. Whist Drive.

DONCASTER.—Annual Meeting of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild on 5th March, the Mayoress, President of the Guild, in the chair. Special Efforts of the past year : Special Appeal, Life-boat Day.

Amount collected last year £98.

DRIFFIELD (YORKS.).—Whist Drive.

HALIFAX (YoRKS.).—Sunday Concert.

HECKMONDWIKE (YORKS.).—Bridge Drive.

LEEDS AND DISTRICT.—Annual Meet- ing on 9th January, the Deputy Lord Mayor presiding. Speakers : Sir God- frey Baring, Bt., Chairman of the Com- mittee of Management, Mr. George P.

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

Special Efforts of past year : Envelope Appeals, Life-boat Day, Matinee.

Amount collected last year £1,231, as compared with £1,124 in the previous year. Presentations to honorary workers by Sir Godfrey Baring.

Address by Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., at Sunday afternoon women's meeting at Cromwell Hall, at which between 500 and 600 women were present.

Whist and Bridge Drives.

MARKET WEIGHTON (YORKS.).—Whist Drives and Drawing-room meeting, organized by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

MELTHAM (YORKS.).—Meeting to re- vive Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

NEWBURN-ON-TYNE (NORTHUMBER- LAND).—Jumble Sale.

ROTHERHAM AND DISTRICT (YORKS.).

—Annual Meeting on 28th March, the Mayor, Patron of the Branch, presiding.

Special Effort of the past year: Life- boat Day. Amount collected last year £158, as compared with £213 in the pre- vious year.

SALTBURN (YORKS.).—Annual Meet- ing, the Rev. F. L. B. Knight, B.A., presiding. Special Efforts of the past year: Concert, Mile of Pennies, Life- boat Day. Amount collected last year £77, as compared with £117 in the pre- vious year.

Vaudeville Entertainment.

SCARBOROUGH (YORKS.). — Sunday Concert. Whist and Bridge Drive.

SEAHAM (DURHAM).—Children's Ball and Whist Drive.

SELBY (YORKS.).—Annual Dance.

SKELMANTHORPE AND SCISSETT (YoRKS.).—Whist Drive and Dance.

SPENBOHOUGH (YORKS.).—Drawing- room Meeting. Bring-and-Buy Sale.

STAINLAND, GRBETLAND AND WEST VALE (YoRKS.).—Bridge Drive given by Mrs. Marshall. Bridge Drive given by Mrs. Rothwell.

STOCKTON AND THORNABY (DURHAM).

—Annual Meeting of Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Amount collected last year £143, as compared with £171 in the previous year. Special Efforts of the past year : Ball, ,Whist Drive and Dance and Life- boat Day.

TYNEMOUTH (NORTHUMBERLAND).— Annual Meeting, the Rt. Hon. Walter Runciman, M.P., a Member of the Committee of Management, presiding.

Special Efforts of the past year : Whist Drives, Shipping Appeal, Life-boat Day.

Amount collected last year £205, as compared with £395 in the previous year.

Whist Drive. Annual Supper and Concert to Life-boat Crew, given by Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

WAKEFIELD (YORKS.).—Concert in Playhouse Theatre.

WEST HARTLEPOOL (DURHAM).— Annual Meeting on 6th March, the Mayoress, President of the Guild, in the chair. Special Efforts of the past year : Whist Drives, Life-boat Day. Amount collected last year £117, as compared with £107 in the previous year.

Whist Drive.

Midlands.

ALFRETON (DERBYSHIRE).—Children's Party.

BIRMINGHAM.—Annual Meeting on 4th March, the Lord Mayor, President of the Branch, in the chair. Speaker : Mr. George F. Shee, M.A., Secretary of the Institution. Special Efforts of the past year: Life-boat Day, Two Dances, Whist Drives, Theatre, Cinema and School Collections. Amount collected last year £2,428, as compared with £1,513 in the previous year.

Collection during week at Theatre Royal. One week's Collection at Empire Theatre. Life-boat Ball at Tony's Ballroom. Three Broadcast Addresses by the District Organizing Secretary. Whist Drive at Water Orton.

BLAKENEY (GLOS.).—Branch formed, Hon. Secretary, Mrs. G. Edwards.

BRISTOL.—Annual Meeting on 12th March. The Lord Mayor, Patron of the Branch, in the chair. Speakers: Mr. F. 0. Wills, Chairman of the Branch, Mrs. Hartly-Hodder, Hon.

Secretary of the Ladies' Guild, and the District Organizing Secretary. Special Efforts of the past year : Life-boat Day, Dance, Whist Drives. Amount collected last year £1,195, as compared with £1,142 in the previous year. Presenta- tion, by the Lord Mayor, of Framed Photograph awarded by the Institution to Mr. Hartly-Hodder, the Hon. Secre- tary of the Branch.

Lantern lectures and address given in many of the schools by the District Organizing Secretary.

BURTON-ON-TRENT (STAFFS.)—Annual Meeting on 12th February, Mrs. Morris, President of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, in the chair. Speaker: the District Organizing Secretary. Special Efforts of the past year : Life-boat Day, House- to-House collection. Amount collected last year £268, as compared with £177 in the previous year. Presentation of Framed Photograph awarded by the Institution to Mr. W. Vaughan, Hon.

Secretary of the Branch.

COALVILLE (LEics.). — Branch re- vived. Hon. Secretary, Mrs. Gut- teridge.

DAVENTRY (NOKTHANTS.).—Concert arranged by Mrs. Luck, the Hon.

Secretary.

DEOITWICH (Woncs.).—Dance.

GRIMSBY (LiNcs.).—Dance.

KIDDERMINSTER (WoRCS.).—Annual Meeting, the Deputy Mayor in the chair. Speaker : the District Organizing Secretary. Special Efforts of the past year: Life-boat Day, Whist Drives.

Amount collected last year £68, as compared with £155 in the previous year.

LICHFIELD (STAFFS.)—Whist Drive and Dance.

LYE (WoRCS.). — Branch formed.

Hon. Secretary, Mrs. Cook.

NEW MILLS (DERBYSHIRE).—Address by the District Organizing Secretary at a meeting of the Medical Charities Committee.

NUNEATON (WARWICK.).—Collections in Scala Picture Theatre.

OWSTON FERRY (LiNcs.).—-Branch formed. Hon. Secretary, Miss E.

Leggott. Entertainment.

PETERBOROUGH (NORTHANTS.).— Annual Meeting on 12th March, Mr.

H. B. Hartley in the chair. Speaker, Mr. George F. Shee, M.A., Secretary of the Institution. Special Effort of the past year: Life-boat Day. Amount collected last year £220, as compared with £133 in previous year.

EUGBY.—Dance.

RUGELEY (STAFFS.).—Life-boat Ball.

RUSHDEN (NORTHANTS.).—Branch re- vived. Hon. Secretary, Miss E.

Hawkins.

SCOTHERN (LiNcs.).—Branch formed.

Hon. Secretary, Miss M. F. Menzies.

Whist Drive and Dance.

STROUD (GLOS.). — Drawing-room meeting. Address by the District Organizing Secretary.

TOWCESTER (NORTHANTS.).—Ladies' Life-boat Guild formed. Hon. Secre- tary, Mrs. Whitton.

WARWICK.—Life-boat Day ; District Organizing Secretary spoke at the Theatre.

WOLVERHAMPTON (STAFFS.).—Dance.

WOODHALL SPA (LiNcs.).—Fancy Dress Carnival and Dance.

Nine lectures and addresses were given "by the District Organizing Secretary during the quarter in addition to those mentioned.

South-East of England.

ALDEBURGH (SUFFOLK).—Lecture at Harleston by Mr. W. Riggs, Hon.

Secretary.

ASHFORD (KENT).—Lecture by Mrs.

Johnson Smyth, Hon. Secretary at Canterbury.

BIRCHINGTON (KENT).—Special meet- ing. Address by the District Organizing Secretary. Branch formed. Hon. Secre- tary, Mrs. L. K. Martin.

CAMBRIDGE.—Special Appeal in the Press, signed by the Mayor, Mrs. Giles, President of the Branch, and Miss Ackers, Honorary Secretary.

CANTERBURY (KENT).—Annual Meet- ing, the Mayor presiding. Speaker : the District Organizing Secretary. Amount collected last year £146, as compared with £141 in the previous year.

House-to-House Collection.

Lectures to Welfare Clinic, Women's Adult School, and other bodies, by Mrs.

Johnson Smyth, Hon. Secretary of the Branch.

CHATHAM (KENT).—Branch formed.

Hon. Secretary, Lieut. W. C. Butten- shaw, R.N. (Ret.).

CUCKFIELD AND HiYWARDS HEATH (SUSSEX). — Branch formed. Hon.

Secretary, Miss Diana Turner. Lecture at Lindfield Women's Institute by District Organizing Secretary.

DARTFORD (KENT).—Whist Drive, and films shown at Cinema.

Diss (NORFOLK).—Lecture by Mr. W.

Riggs, Hon. Secretary at Aldeburgh.

DOVER (KENT).—Address to Rotary Club by Captain Guy Fanshawe, R.N., a Member of the Committee of Manage- ment of the Institution.

DUNGENESS (KENT).—Presentation of the Bronze Medal awarded to Coxswain Douglas Oilier, and the Vellums awarded to the Crew for the service to the barge Marie May, on llth November, 1929.

Address by Captain Holloway, O.B.E., E.D., R.N.R., a Member of the Com- mittee of Management of the Institution.

FOLKESTONE (KENT).—Annual Meet- ing. Amount raised last year £461, as compared with £353 in the previous year.

Lectures at Folkestone Women's Guild, Beachborough Park School, Sea- brook Hall School, Morehall School, Cheriton Women's Guild, Kent College and Women's Section of the British Legion at Folkestone. Bridge Drive.

GOSFIELD (ESSEX).—Whist Drive.

Life-boat Day.

GRAYS (ESSEX).

Films at Cinemas.

GT. YARMOUTH (NORFOLK).—Annual Meeting. Amount collected last year £386, as compared with £422 in the pre- vious year.

GUILDFORD (SURREY). — House-to- House Collection in villages.

HAWKHURST (SUSSEX). — Rangers' Entertainment.

HERNE BAY (KENT).—Lecture by Mr. C. J. Greene, Hon. Secretary.

HERTFORD (HERTS.).—Address to Rotary Club by District Organizing Secretary.

HYTHE (KENT).—Presentation of the Silver Medal awarded to Coxswain H.

Griggs, Jun., and the Vellums awarded to the Crew for the service to the barge Marie May on llth November, 1929.

LEATHERHEAD (SURREY). — Dance, organized by the Headley Women's Institute.

LEIGHTON BUZZARD (BEDS.).—Branch formed. Hon. Secretary, Miss Brown.

LITTLEHAMPTON (SUSSEX).—Concert, and presentation to Commander H. B.

Boothby, D.S.O., R.N.R., late Honorary Secretary at Grimsby, by Brig.-Gen. Sir Arthur Allen-Williams, K.B.E., C.M.G., M.I.C.E.

MARGATE (KENT).—Annual Meeting, the Mayor, President of the Branch, in the chair. Amount collected last year £817, as compared with £775 in the pre- vious year.

MlDHURST AND DISTRICT (SUSSEX).— Branch formed. Hon. Secretary, Mrs.

Denys Johnson.

NEWPORT PAGNELL (BUCKS.). — Branch formed. Hon. Secretary, Miss P. Taylor.

NEW ROMNEY (KENT).—Presentation to Mr. R. P. Anderson, Hon. Secretary of the Branch, by the District Organizing Secretary, of the Thanks of the Institu- tion inscribed on Vellum.

NORWICH (NORFOLK).—Jumble Sale.

RAMSGATE (KENT).—Dance.

REIGATE AND REDHILL (SURREY).— Bridge Drive.

SAFFRON WALDEN (ESSEX). —Branch formed. Hon. Secretary, Miss Bell.

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

Bertram Baker. Lecture by Mrs.

Johnson-Smyth, Hon. Secretary at Canterbury.

SHOREHAM (SUSSEX).—Ladies' Life- boat Guild formed. Hon. Secretary, Miss Ledger.

SLOUGH (BUCKS.).—Lecture by Miss Truman, Hon. Secretary.

SOUTHWICK (SUSSEX).—Dance orga- nized by Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

THETFORD (NORFOLK).—Entertain- ment.

TUNBRIDGE WELLS (KENT).—Lecture at Rose Hill School.

WADHURST (SUSSEX). — Branch formed. Hon. Secretary, Mr. G. A.

Wilkins.

WALTON-ON-THAMES (SURREY). — Life-boat Day.

WEYBRIDGE (SURREY). — Life-boat Day.

WOKING (SURREY).—Concert by Chid- dingfold Players.

WORTHING (SUSSEX) .—Annual General Meeting, the Mayor presiding. Speaker : Mr. George F. Shee, M.A., Secretary of the Institution. Amount collected last year £686, as compared with £546 in the previous year.

South-West of England.

ANDOVER (HANTS).—Life-boat Day, arranged by Mrs. Cole, at Whitchurch.

BATH (SOMERSET).—The Earl and Countess Waldegrave's Matinee at the Theatre Royal: " The Cassilis Engage- ment." Lady Waldegrave presented the Gold Badge awarded by the In- stitution to Mrs. George Goldie, the Hon. Secretary.

BRIDPOET (DORSET).—Annual Meet- ing on 10th May, the Mayor presiding.

Speaker : The District Organizing Secre- tary. Amount collected last year £84.

Miss Sadleir elected Hon. Secretary.

EXETER (DEVON).—Annual Meeting, the Mayor, Vice-President of the Branch, in the chair. Speakers : Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., Chairman of the Committee of Management of the Institution, and the Rev. the Earl of Devon, President of the Branch. Special Efforts for the year: Appeals, Life-boat Day, Com- petitions, Stalls, Dance given by the Exeter Butchers' Association, Whist Drive, Bridge Drives, and four theatrical performances arranged by Mrs. Gamble.

Amount collected last year £745, as compared with £609 in the previous year. Sir Godfrey Baring presented the Gold Badge, which had been awarded by the Institution to Mrs. Arthur Reed, Chairman of the Branch and of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. In Mrs. Reed's absence on account of illness, the badge was received by Mr. Reed.

OXFORD.—Annual Meeting on 7th February, at Corpus Christi College, the President of Corpus Christi presiding.

Speaker: Sir Godfrey Baring Bt., Chair- man of the Committee of Management of the Institution. Amount collected last year £680, as compared with £660 in the previous year. Presentation of certificate won by a pupil of the Cowley School in the Life-boat Essay Competi- tion.

PAIGNTON (DEVON).—Whist Drive, organized by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

PORTSMOUTH (HANTS). — Special Meeting summoned by the Lady Mayoress, with the Lord Mayor pre- siding, to develop the work of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Speakers: Mrs. Pollard, Chairman of the Guild, and the District Organizing Secretary.

New members enrolled.

SALISBURY (WILTS.).—Social at West Moors.

SOUTHAMPTON (HANTS). — Annual Meeting, the Mayor, President of the Branch, in the chair. Speaker: Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., Chairman of the Committee of Management of the Institution. Special Efforts : Life-boat Day : Theatrical Performance. Amount collected last year £760, as compared with £778 in the previous year. Sir Godfrey Baring presented the Gold Badge awarded by the Institution to Mrs. Walter, the Hon. Secretary.

Performance of " Tons of Money " by the Blenheim Players.

SWINDON (WILTS.).—Annual Meeting, the Mayor presiding. Speaker: the District Organizing Secretary. Amount collected last year £64.

TAUNTON (SOMERSET).—District Con- ference. (See special report on p. 90.) THAME (OxoN.).—Annual Meeting.

Speaker : Mr. C. J. Greene, Hon. Secre- tary of the Herne Bay Branch. Amount collected last year £125, as compared with £132 in the previous year. " Q Ships " film shown; about 500 people were present.

TOTNES (DEVON).—Special Meeting, the Mayor presiding, and display of films. Speaker : Lieut. Col. C. R. Satter- thwaite, O.B.E., R.E., Deputy Secretary of the Institution.

TRURO (CORNWALL).—District Con- ference. (See special report on p. 90.) WARMINSTER (WILTS.).—Display of Life-boat Films arranged by the Women's Section of the British Legion.

Address by the District Organizing Secretary.

WEYMOUTH (DORSET).—Concert by the " Dorchester Follies." Scotland.

ABERDEEN.—Annual Meeting on 1st February. The Lord Provost, President of the Branch, in the chair. Speaker: Colonel the Master of Sempill, a Member of the Committee of Management.

Amount collected last year £757, as compared with £736 in the previous year.

AEBROATH (FORFARSHIRE).—Annual Meeting on 5th March, Captain A. S.

Edward in the chair. Amount collected last year £35, as compared with £123 in the previous year.

BATHGATE (LINLITHGOW.) .—Life-boat Day.

DUNFERMLINE (FiFE.).—Whist Drive and Dance, arranged by the local Committee.

EDINBURGH.—Ball, arranged by the Edinburgh Ladies' Life-boat Guild, held by the kind permission of the Marquis and Marchioness of Linlithgow at Hope- toun House, South Queensferry.

Whist Drive given by Lodge Dal- housie 720, at the request of Mrs. Core- Greenshields, Vice-President of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

Three Lantern Lectures by Captain A. S. Balfour, O.B.E., a member of the Edinburgh Committee.

FALKIRK (STIRLINGSHIRE) .—Life-boat Day.

GLASGOW.—Whist Drive on board the s.s. California, by kind permission of the Anchor Line, arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

Four performances by the Anderston Church Operatic Society of " Our Miss Gibbs/' arranged by the Glasgow Com- mittee and the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

KEITH (BANFF.).—-Lantern Lecture by the Eev. Kenneth J. Cameron.

KIRKCUDBRIGHT.—Annual Meeting on 24th January. Sir Charles Hope Dun- bar, President of the Branch, in the chair. Speakers : Admiral Sir Alex.

L. Duff and the Organizing Secretary for Scotland. Amount collected last year £128, as compared with £137 in the previous year. Ladies' Life-boat Guild formed, Officers appointed, and fifty members joined the Guild.

NEWBURGH (ABBBDEENSHIEE). — Fancy Dress Ball, arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

PETERHEAD (ABERDEENSHIRE).—Sun- day Concert, arranged by the local Committee and Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

Address by the Organizing Secretary for Scotland.

ROTHESAY.—Public Meeting, Bailie Brown presiding. Ladies' Life-boat Guild formed for the Isle of Bute.

Address by the Organizing Secretary for Scotland.

WICK (CAITHNESS-SHIRE). — Annual Procession on behalf of the local Hospital and Life-boat Fund.

Six lectures were given during the quarter by the Organizing Secretary for Scotland, in addition to those men- tioned.

Ireland.

BANDON (CORK).—Ladies' Life-boat Guild formed. Life-boat Day. Dance.

BANGOR (Co. DOWN).—Annual Meet- ing, Councillor Bowman presiding.

Speakers : The Bishop of Kilmore, and the District Organizing Secretary.

Amount collected last year £129, as compared with £112 in the previous year.

BELFAST.—Popular Ball. Children's Party. At both functions Lady Dixon, D.B.E., first Vice-President of the Bel- fast Ladies' Life-boat Guild, and the Lady Mayoress (Lady Coates) received the guests.

CLONMEL (TIPPERARY). — Life-boat Day.

KILLORGLIN (KERRY).—Whist Drive.

MULLINGAR ( WESTMEATH) .—Drawing- room Meeting, with Mrs. Hannin pre- siding. Speaker : the District Organiz- ing Secretary. Branch formed.

NENAGH (Co. TIPPERARY).—Life-boat Day.

NORTH-WEST MEATH.—Four Village Concerts, with short lectures on Life- boat work.

ROSCREA (TIPPERARY). — Special Meeting, with Mrs. Murray presiding.

Speaker : the District Organizing Secre- tary.

(Continued on page 116.)WESTMEATH. — Village Concert, arranged by Miss Rose Chapman, the Hon. Secretary.

Wales.

(Including Herefordshire and Shropshire.) BABMOUTH (MERIONETHSHIRE).—Pre- sentation by Mr. T. M. Piggott, J.P., Chairman of the Branch, of the Gold Brooch awarded by the Institution to Mrs. J. R. Heath, Hon. Secretary of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Speaker: the District Organizing Secretary.

NEWPORT (MoN.)—Annual Meeting, the Mayor presiding. Speaker: the District Organizing Secretary. A vote of sympathy was passed with Mr.

Phillips, the Chairman, in his prolonged illness. Amount collected last year £218, as compared with £254 in the previous year.

SWANSEA.—Annual Dance at The Mumbles, organized by Mrs. W. Tarr, Hon. Secretary of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Dance at Swansea.

TENBY (PEMBROKE).—Special Meet- ing, the Mayor presiding. Presentation of the Gold Brooch awarded by the Institution to Miss Harvey for her work as a collector for many years. Speaker : the District Organizing Secretary.

Notice.

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The next number of The Lifeboat will be published in September, 1930..