IT is not only the crews of the Life- boats who carry on in spite of injury.

There have recently been two cases, which deserve to be recorded, of ladies continuing their work for financial Branches after serious accidents.

Mrs. Finch, the Honorary Secretary of the Chelmsford Branch, who had fractured her thigh while in Bourne* mouth, insisted upon returning to Chelmsford, although unable to travel alone, in order to make arrangements for the Branch collection. Failing on that occasion to secure anybody to carry on Mrs. Finch herself made all the arrangements for Life-boat Day, and later returned again to Chelm ford to carry through the Life-boat Day, organize a Whist Drive, and find a successor as Honorary Secretary.

Although, owing to her accident, Mrs. Finch has been compelled to leave Chelmsford and to give up her work for the Chelmsford Branch, she has already found work to do for the Bournemouth and Christchurch Branch.

Miss Derbyshire, the Honorary Secretary of the Nottingham Ladies' Life-boat Guild, also fractured her thigh, but continued her work from hospital..