A REMARKABLE instance of the enthu- siastic support given to the Institution by working men and women was re- counted by Mr. R. M. Burke, the Honorary Secretary of the Branch at Tuam, Co. Galway, at the Conference of Honorary Secretaries and Workers in the Irish Free State held in Dublin last September.

A number of the men employed on his farm approached him one day in Decem- ber, 1930, and said that they wished to arrange a dance in aid of the funds of the Institution. They wanted to do everything themselves, and asked for the loan of a barn. Mr. Burke readily agreed, and the preparations went ahead. Admission was 4rf. for men and 3d. for women. For an orchestra, one of the men played a concertina. There were no expenses, and the dance resulted in 15s. being handed to Mr.

Burke for the Institution. The evening was so successful that two further dances were arranged on similar lines, and altogether just over £2 was raised.

Mr. Burke also related that when a number of men on the estate were unemployed he realised some of his investments in order to provide work for them by repairing and improving the cottages of his own employees, and also by putting up three cottages for poor people who could not afford to build for themselves or to pay an economic rent. In order to show their gratitude these men insisted upon con- tributing to the Institution, and gave donations of from 5s. to 10s. each..