IN 1931 an appeal was made to the principal golf clubs in Kent, Surrey and Sussex to hold a competition in aid of the Life-boat Service. The Institution offered to present a silver and enamel Spoon as prize (two Spoons being offered if a mixed competition was held) and suggested that the entrance fee should be five shillings or half-a-crown, the fees to be a gift to the Institution. In response to this appeal six clubs held competitions and presented entrance fees to the Institution, amounting to £35 11s. Qd.

It was then decided that the appeal should be made in 1932 to the principal clubs in England, Scotland and Wales.

Twenty-two clubs responded, and the entrance fees have brought the Institu- tion £68 5s. 6d.

The Institution will make j|nother general appeal to clubs in 1933, Vesides asking the clubs which have held a Life-boat competition already to make it an annual event. It would also appeal to its Branches to approach their local clubs, and asks readers of The Lifeboat who are golfers to suggest a Life-boat Competition to their own clubs..