ALDERMAN J. G. OLDFIELD, of White- haven, Cumberland, who died on 8th May at the age of eighty, was for thirty- five years of his life the Honorary Secre- tary of the Whitehaven Life-boat Station. He found time for this work in the midst of many other public duties, as a member of the Town Council, the Harbour Board and the Board of Guardians, and as a Justice of the Peace. Appointed in 1890, he remained Honorary Secretary until the station was closed in 1925. In 1900 he was presented with inscribed Binoculars, and on his retirement he received the Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum for his many services to it..