Greater London.

CHELSEA.—Annual Meeting. Speaker : Sir Godfrey Baring, St., Chairman of the Institution. Amount collected in 1932 £244, as compared with £184 in 1931.

Visit of new Skegness Motor Life-boat to Cadogan Pier.

CLAPHAM.—Whist Drive.

HAYES.—Annual Meeting. Speaker : The District Organizing Secretary. Amount collected in 1932 £133, as compared with £114 in 1931.

HORNSEY.—Concert. Whist Drive.

Dolphin Dance, with address by the District Organizing Secretary. Address by the Dis- trict Organizing Secretary to the North London 62nd Scout Group.

MITCHAM.—Annual Meeting. Amount collected in 1932 £122, as compared with £110 in 1931.

Dance. Dramatic Entertainment.

ST. ALBANS.—Bridge Drive and Dance.

ST. MARYLEBONE. — Drawing-room Meeting. Speaker : Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., Chairman of the Institution.

TOOTING.—Whist Drive.

TWICKENHAM.—Presentation at St.

Mary's Boys' School of the Challenge Shield for Greater London in the Life-boat Essay Competition.

WALLINGTON.—Concert.

WALTHAMSTOW.— Concerts at St.

Andrew's Hall and Mathews Memorial Hall, with addresses by the District Organizing Secretary.

Lantern Lectures or addresses were also given to the British Sea Anglers' Society, the Little Ship Club, the Brentford and Chiswick Rotary Club, and at East Ham, Hendon, Islington, Mile End, New Barnet, New Maiden, Tottenham, West Ham, West Norwood and Willesden.

North-West of England.

ACCRINGTON.—Annual Meeting on 2nd December. Mr. A. Hunter elected Honorary Secretary in succession to the late Councillor Walter Holden. Amount collected in 1932 £63, as compared with £123 in 1931. Cinema Collections.

BLACKBURN.—Annual Meeting on 21st October. Amount collected in 1932 £182, as compared with £150 in 1931.

BREDBURY.—Annual Meeting on 3rd November. Amount collected in 1932 £38, as compared with £33 in 1931.

COLNE.—Concert by the " Optimists." CONGLETON.—Whist Drive.

CULCHETH-WITH-KENYON. — Bridge and Whist Drive.

KINDLEY.—Whist Drive and Dance.

KENDAL.—Annual Meeting on 9th De- cember. Amount collected in 1932 £116, as compared with £122 in 1931.

KESWICK.—Annual Meeting. Amount collected in 1932 £44, as compared with £38 in 1931.

LANCASTER.—Annual Whist Drive.

LIVERPOOL.—Annual Meeting at Wal- lasey and New Brighton, and Dance, arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

MANCHESTER, SALFORD AND DIS- TRICT.—Special effort in the Drill Hall of the 6th Manchester Regiment. Crowning of Miss Elsie Thrisk as Sea Queen by Lady Nail. Speaker : Colonel Sir Joseph Nail, D.S.O., M.P. Flannel Dance.

CHORLTON - CUM - HARDY. — Whist Drive.

DIDSBURY.—Dance.

GORTON.—Fancy-dress Ball.

NEW MOSTON.—Ladies' Life-boat Guild Annual Dance.

PRESTWICH.—Address by the Branch Secretary to the Prestwich Women's Co- operative Guild.

SALFORD.—Annual Whist Drive, the Mayor and Mayoress being present.

Appeal by the Mayor.

Annual Meeting on 81st October, the Mayor of Salford, Vice-President, in the Chair.

WALKDEN.—Annual Whist Drive and Dance.

WHITWORTH PARK AND CHORL- TON-ON-MEDLOCK.—Ladies' Life-boat Guild formed.

MARYPORT.—Annual Whist Drive and Dance.

MORECAMBE.—Bring and Buy Sale.

MOTTRAM AND BROADBOTTOM.— Annual Meeting on 12th October. Amount collected in 1932 £7, as compared with £16 in 1931.

OLDHAM.—Annual Meeting on 12th December, the Mayor, President of the Branch, in the chair. Amount collected in 1932 £256, as compared with £234 in 1931.

PORT ERIN.—Concert.

RADCLIFFE.—Dance.

RAMSBOTTOM.—Whist Drives and Dances, arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

RAMSEY.—The Branch has lost an old and valued friend by the death of Mr. A. H.

Teare. He was its Honorary Secretary from 1915 to 1930, being presented with inscribed binoculars in 1929 and the thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum on his retirement, in recognition of his many services to the Branch.

ROMILEY.—Annual Meeting on 8th October. Amount collected in 1932 £43, as compared with £46 in 1931.

Whist Drive.

STANDISH.—Whist and Bridge Drive.

TOTTINGTON.—Annual Whist and Bridge Drive.

WARRINGTON.—Annual Meeting on 27th October, the Mayor, President of the Branch,' in the chair. Mrs. B. Fairclough elected Chairman of the Branch in place of Miss Broadbent, who had resigned. Amount collected in 1932 £189, as compared with £154 in 1931.

WESTHOUGHTON.— Whist Drive.

North-East of England.

BARNARD CASTLE.—Annual Meeting on 20th October. Amount collected in 1932 £16, as compared with £26 in 1931.

BEDLINGTON.—The Branch has suffered a severe loss by the death of Miss Elizabeth Brown, its Honorary Secretary since 1929.

Whist Drive.

BERWICK.—Annual Meeting on 18th November, the Mayor presiding. Efforts of the past year : Life-boat Day and Whist Drives. Amount collected in 1932 £202, as compared with £182 in 1931.

Whist Drive and Dance at Spittal.

BRADFORD.—Annual Matinee at the Alhambra Theatre.

BRIDLINGTON.—Whist Drives and Supper.

CONISBROUGH.—Whist Drives.

CRESSWELL.—Jumble Sale.

DARLINGTON.—Bridge and Whist Drive.

DERWENT VALLEY.—Bridge Drive.

DRIFFIELD.—Tea, Whist and Bridge, to which the members of the Ladies' Life- boat Guild and friends were invited by Mrs. W. H. Blakeston, one of the Honorary Secretaries. Collection.

DURHAM. — Chrysanthemum Show, opened by Lady Surtees.

GATESHEAD.—Annual Meeting on 25th November, the Mayor, President of the Branch, in the chair. Speaker : Sybil, Lady Eden. Efforts of the past year : Life-boat Day, Bridge Drives. Amount collected in 1932 £190, as compared with £293 in 1931.

HALIFAX.—Dramatic performance given by the Heath Old Boys' Dramatic Society.

HARROGATE.—Life-boat Day.

HONLEY.—Whist Drive.

HUDDERSFIELD.—Annual Meeting on 12th December, the Mayoress, President of the Guild, in the chair. Efforts of the past year : Whist Drives. Amount collected in 1932 £111, as compared with £311 in 1931. £ Life-boat day.

KIRKBURTON.—Whist Drive.

LEEDS.—Annual Life-boat Matinee.

Dance and Whist Drive. Dance at Headingley.

MEXBOROUGH.—Bridge Drive.

NORTH SUNDERLAND.—Presentation of awards made for the service to the coble Sea Queen of North Sunderland on 10th October, 1932. Whist Drive.

POCKLINGTON.—Whist Drive.

RIPPONDEN.—Whist Drive and Dance.

SELBY.—Annual Meeting. Efforts of the past year : Life-boat Day ; Dance and Bridge Drive. Amount collected in 1932 £72, as compared with £65 in 1931. Social.

SOWERBY BRIDGE.—Whist Drive and Dance.

STAINLAND.—Whist Drive and Dance.

STAMFORDHAM.—Lantern Lecture.

WAKEFIELD.—Whist Drive.

WEST HARTLEPOOL.—Dance.

WHITBY.—A Wreath was laid on the sea from the Life-boat on Armistice Day, llth November, in memory of the officers and men of the Navy, mine-sweepers, patrol- drifters, and Merchant Service, who lost their lives in the Great War.

WOOLER.—Address by District Organ- izing Secretary to Toe H.

Midlands.

B ADSE Y. —Carol-singing.

BIRMINGHAM.—Special Meeting of the Branch and Guild. New officers appointed.

Life-boat Ball. Collections at Grand, Alexandra, and Hippodrome theatres. Col- lecting boxes in shop arcades and at railway stations. " Heroes of the Sea " film shown, with collection, at Aston Hippodrome.

Carol singing at Yardley Wood. Lantern Lecture by the District Organizing Secretary at Springfield Baptist Chapel.

BRIERLEY HILL AND QUARRY BANK.—Branch reformed. Mr. Andrew Cooper, Hon. Secretary'.

BRISTOL.—Life-boat Ball held in H.M.S.

Flying Fox.

CLEETHORPES.—Whist Drive, Poultry Drive, and Carol-singing.

GLOUCESTER.—" Heroes of the Sea" film shown at Hippodrome.

KIDDERMINSTER.—Life-boat Day.

LEAMINGTON.—Annual Meeting, Canon Feist, Vice-President of the Branch, in the chair. Amount collected in 1932 £208, as compared with £248 in 1931. Speaker : The District Organizing Secretary.

LYE.—Carol-singing.

MIDDLETON - BY - WIRKSWORTH.— Branch formed. Hon. Secretary : Mr. A. B.

Farnsworth. Lantern Lecture by the Dis- trict Organizing Secretary.

NOTTINGHAM. — Special Meeting.

Speaker : The District Organizing Secretary.

OUNDLE.—Branch formed. Hon. Secre- tary, Mr. J. M. Siddons. Lantern Lecture by the District Organizing Secretary.

ROTHWELL.—Life-boat Day.

RUGBY.—Annual Life-boat Ball.

SCOTHERN.—Whist Drive and Dance.

STOKE-ON-TRENT AND NEWCASTLE- UNDER-LYME. Life-boat Day. Annual Meeting of the Newcastle Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

STRATFORD-ON-AVON.—" Heroes of the Sea " film shown at the Picture House.

Lantern Lecture by the District Organizing Secretary at a meeting arranged by the Brotherhood.

SUTTON-IN-ASHFIELD. — Tea Dance and Whist Drive. " Heroes of the Sea" film shown at two cinemas, and collections taken.

Lantern Lectures were also given at Brigg, Daventry, Halesowen, Hinckley, Market Harborough, Stafford, Stow-on-the-Wold and Todenham.

South-East of England.

ALDEBURGH.—Annual Meeting, Capt.

F. C. U. Vernon Wentworth, C.B., R.N., President and Chairman of the Branch, presiding. Events of the past year: In- augural Ceremon v of the new Motor Life-boat by H.R.H. the Prince George, K.G. Life-boat D'ay. Amount collected in 1932 £223, as compared with £140 in 1931.

ATTLEBOROUGH. — Life-boat Day.

Film shown.

BECCLES.—House-to-House Collection.

BEXHILL.—Annual Meeting on 24th November, Admiral C. E.Anson, C.B.,M.V.O., Chairman of the Branch, presiding. Amount collected in 1932 £42, as compared with £140 in 1931.

" Heroes of the Sea " film shown, with collection. Bridge Drive.

BIGGLESWADE.—Jumble Sale.

BISHOP'S STORTFORD.—Carol-singing.

BOGNOR REGIS.—Carol-singing.

BRENTWOOD.—" Heroes of the Sea " film shown, with collection.

BRIGHTON AND HOVE.—Annual Meet- ing of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild on 29th November, followed by a Concert, the Mayor presiding. Speaker : Lieut.-Col. C. R. Satter- thwaite, O.B.E., Secretary of the Institution.

Efforts of the past year: Life-boat Day in Hove, Dance, Cinema Collections, Bridge Drive. Amount collected in 1932 £471.

Address to Toe H. Speakers : Mr. V. G.

North, Hon. Secretary,' Shoreham Branch, Mr. C. Heaton, Asst. Hon. Secretary, and the District Organizing Secretary.

BURNHAM - ON - CROUCH. — Branch formed. Joint Hon. Secretaries, Mrs. Joy and Miss Penrose Fitzgerald. Burnham was before part of the Chelmsford Branch.

BURY ST. EDMUNDS.—House-to-House collection at Ixworth.

BYFLEET AND PYRFORD.—Golf Com- petition.

CAMBERLEY.—Films shown at Cord- walles School.

CANTERBURY.—Cathedral Collection.

Christmas Day Church Collections at Wingham.

CHELMSFORD.—Carol-singing. Whist Drive.

CHICHESTER.—Annual Meeting on llth October, Mrs. Keith Wannop, Chairman of the Branch, presiding. Efforts of the past year: House-to-House Collection, Public Meeting, Church Collection, Theatre and Cinema Collections, Entertainment. Amount collected in 1932 £168, as compared with £192 in 1931.

Conference of Country Workers, Lantern Lecture at Wesleyan Women's Hour.

CHORLEY WOOD.—Scavenging Party.

CROMER.—Annual Meeting on 4th November, Lord Suffield, President of the Branch, in the chair. Efforts of the past year : Life-boat Day, Life-boat Cup Com- petition. Amount collected in 1932 £362, as compared with £433 in 1931.

Dinner given by Mr. T. A. Cook, Member of Parliament for North Norfolk, to the Crews, Chairmen and Hon. Secretaries of the Life-boat Stations at Blakeney, Cromer, Sheringham and Wells.

CUCKFIELD AND HAYWARDS HEATH. Bridge Tournament. Carol- singing.

DARTFORD.—Lantern Lecture at Farn- ingham by Mr. Percy Kemp.

DISS.—" Heroes of the Sea " film shown, with Collection.

DORKING.—" Heroes of the Sea " film shown, with Collection.

EASTBOURNE.—Annual Meeting on 28th November, Mr. N. S. Holland, Chairman of the Branch, presiding. Speaker : Lieut.-Col.

C. R. Satterthwaite, O.B.E., Secretary of the Institution. Efforts of the past year : Life- boat Days in Eastbourne and District, Col- lections in hotels, schools, boarding-houses, etc., Whist Drive at Hailsham. Amount collected in 1932 £1,198, as compared with £1,415 in 1931.

EAST GRINSTEAD.—Carol-singing.

FAKENHAM.—" Heroes of the Sea " film shown, with Collection.

FARNHAM.—Life-boat Competition at Hankley Common Golf Club.

FOLKESTONE.—Annual Meeting of Women's Auxiliary, Mrs. R. G. Wood, J.P., Chairman, presiding. Efforts of the past year: Life-boat Day, Bridge and Whist Drives, Lectures. Amount collected in 1932 £373, as compared with £454 in 1931.

Production of Life-boat Play, Their Business in Great Waters, for one week, with daily Collections. Life-boat Ball. Lecture to Tontine Street Sisterhood.

GODALMING.—Series of three Bridge Tournaments.

GOODWIN SANDS AND DOWNS.— Presentation by the Mayor of Certificates of Service awarded to the Coxswain and Crew of the North Deal Life-boat, on the closing of the Station.

GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLES- TON.—A Wreath was laid on the sea from the Life-boat on Armistice Day, llth November, in memory of the officers and men of the Navy, mine-sweepers, patrol- drifters and Merchant Service who lost their lives in the Great War.

HASTINGS.—Theatricals.

HEMEL HEMPSTEAD.—Lantern Lec- ture by Capt. H. E. Holme, Hon. Secretary, at Potten End Women's Institute, and Lecture to Rover Scouts.

HIGH WYCOMBE.—Bridge Drive.

KESSINGLAND. — Entertainment, ar- ranged by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

LEATHERHEAD.—Dance. Carol-singing.

LITTLEHAMPTON.—Dance.

LOWESTOFT.—Annual Meeting on 2nd November, Mr. F. Spashett, Chairman of the Branch, presiding. Efforts of the past year : Life-boat Day. Amount collected in 1932 £160, as compared with £390 in 1931.

MARGATE.—Annual Meeting on 5th December, the Mayor presiding. Efforts of the last year : Life-boat Day, Dance, Sale of souvenirs. Amount collected in 1932 £505, as compared with £567 in 1931.

Annual Dinner to the Crew.

MARLOW.—Carol-singing.

MIDHURST.—House-to-House Collection and Life-boat Service at Heyshott, with address by Capt. Basil Hall, R.N.

NEWHAYEN.—Annual Meeting on 31st October, Mr. R. W. Dewdney, Chairman, presiding. Efforts of the past year : Life- boat Day. Amount collected in 1932 £59, as compared with £85 in 1931.

NEWMARKET.—Bridge Drive.

ST. IVES.—Annual Meeting on 7th November. Efforts of the past year : Special Matinie of Life-boat Films, Life-boat Day. Amount collected in 1932 £85, as com- pared with £98 in 1931.

SHOREHAM HARBOUR. — Annual Meeting on 30th November. In the absence of the chairman, Mr. J. G. Jackson presided.

Efforts of the past year: Life-boat Day, Dance, organized by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Amount collected in 1932 £159, as compared with £180 in 1931.

SITTINGBOURNE.—" Heroes of the Sea" film shown, with Collection. Whist Drive and Dance.

SLOUGH.—Jumble Sale.

SOUTHBOROUGH AND DISTRICT.— Annual Meeting on 23rd November, Capt.

B. K. Boase, Vice-President of the Branch, in the chair. Efforts of the past year: Life- boat Day. Amount collected in 1932 £34.

SOUTHEND.—Annual Meeting on 27th October, Mr. W. C. Day, Hon. Treasurer of the Branch, presiding, in the absence of Sir John Francis, whose resignation as Chairman was reported. Mr. Fred Britain, Hon.

Secretary, elected Chairman, and Mr. J. L.

Elliston, Branch Secretary. Efforts of the past year : Life-boat Days at Southend, Hadleigh and Canvey Island, Lantern Lecture by the District Organizing Secretary at the Essex Yacht Club, Leigh-on-Sea. Amount col- lected in 1932 £357, as compared with £408 in 1931.

TRING.—Special Matinee of Life-boat Films in connexion with the Women's Section of the British Legion. " Heroes of the Sea " film shown, with Collection.

TUNBRIDGE WELLS.—Life-boat Com- petition at the Nevill Golf Club.

WALTON AND FRINTON.—Annual Meeting on 9th December, Mr. T. W. Eagle, Chairman of the Branch, presiding. Events of the past year : Inaugural Ceremony of boarding boat, Life-boat Day, Life-boat Sunday. Amount collected in 1932 £225, as compared with £223 in 1931.

WOKING.— Life-boat Competition at Worplesdon Golf Club.

WORTHING.—Presentation, arranged by the Shoreham Harbour Branch, of the Life- boat Picture, awarded by the Institution to Messrs. G. N. & L. Prideaux, and Miss Prideaux, of Lancing, for their gallantry in saving two lives. (An account of their service appeared in the last issue of The Life-boat.) Lantern Lectures were also given at Benington, Great Yarmouth, Guildford, Stevenage and Walton-on-Thames.

South-West of England.

ABINGDON.—Life-boat Day.

BIDEFORD.—Concert Recital by Madame Delines at the Church Institute, organized by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

BODMIN.—Life-boat Day.

BRIDGWATER.—Dance at North Petherton.

DEVIZES.—Presentation by the Hon.

Mrs. Bailey of the Certificate won in the Life- boat Essay Competition by West Lavington School. Theatrical Entertainment, " Hullo Devizes" at the Corn Exchange, arranged by the staff of the Mental Hospital.

DORCHESTER. — (Dorset) — Annual Dance.

GOSPORT.—Address by Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., Chairman of the Institution, to the Rotary Club. Presentation by the Mayor of Gosport of the Challenge Shield for the South-West of England in the Life-boat Essay Competition,-and of the special prize for the best essay in Great Britain and Ireland, won by Miss Barbara Bull, of the Lees Girls' School, Gosport.

OXFORD.—Life-boat Day.

PAIGNTON.—Annual Meeting of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, Mrs. H. J. Vick.

Chairman, presiding. Whist Drive, organ- ized by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

PORTSMOUTH.—Concert by the Ports- mouth Glee Club.

PLYMOUTH.—Annual Meeting, the Mayor, a Vice-President of the Branch, in the chair. Amount collected in 1932 £437, as compared with £494 in 1931.

Life-boat Day, Concert and Dance at Bere Alston.

SALISBURY.—Life-boat Day at Lud- gershall.

SIDMOUTH.—Life-boat Day at Ottery St. Mary.

SOUTHAMPTON.—First of a series of Whist Drives, organized by the Ladies' Life- boat Guild.

TAUNTON.—Presentation by Lady Port- man of a Certificate won in the Life-boat Essay Competition, by Holy Trinity School.

TOTNES.—Ashburton Life-boat Day.

WESTON-SUPER-MARE.—Concert and distribution of hampers to Life-boat Crew, arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

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

WEYMOUTH.—Annual Meeting, Major J. H. C. Devenish, J.P., Chairman of the Branch, presiding. Events of the past year : Inaugural Ceremony of the new Motor Life- boat ; House-to-House Collection. Amount collected in 1932 £301, as compared with £268 in 1931.

WINCHESTER.—Life-boat Day, organ- ized by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

WOODSTOCK.—Concert.

Scotland.

Meeting of the Scottish Life-boat Council in Edinburgh on 27th October, the Duke of Montrose, C.B., C.V.O., V.D., LL.D., Chair- man of the Council, presiding. Presentation of awards to Scottish Honorary Workers by Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., Chairman of the Institution.

ABERLOUR.—Lantern Lecture.

AIRDRIE.—Life-boat Day.

ANSTRUTHER.—Special Meeting of Branch, Provost Readdie, Chairman of the Branch, presiding. Speaker : The District Inspector of Life-boats, Lieut.-Commander T.

G. Michelmore, R.D., R.N.R. Mr. Hugh C.

Mackintosh appointed joint Hon. Secretary in succession to the late Mr. Henry Watson.

BANFF.—Performances of Gilbert & Sullivan's Princess Ida by the Banff Operatic Society for four nights. Annual Whist Drive and Dance at Whitehills.

BURNTISLAND.—Annual Meeting on 7th November, Mr. James Piper, Chairman of the Branch, presiding. Efforts of the past year: Whist Drive and Life-boat Days.

Amount collected in 1932 £102, as compared with £79 in 1931.

CARSTAIRS JUNCTION, COAT- BRIDGE AND DING WALL.—Life-boat Days.

DUFFTOWN.—Lantern Lecture.

DUNBAR.—Annual Meeting. Efforts of the past year: Life-boat Days. Amount collected in 1932 £292, as compared with £749 in 1931.

Christmas gifts of woollen gloves and scarves, tea, tobacco, sweets and currant buns made to the Crew by the Chairman of the Branch.

DUNDEE.—Bridge and Whist Drive on board H.M.S. Unicorn, by kind permission of the officers, organized by Mrs. T. Hims- worth, Honorary Secretary of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

Whist Drive to Ladies' Life-boat Guild Presidents and Collectors.

Bridge Drive, organized by Mrs. C. Butler, Hon. Treasurer of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild and a Committee.

DUNFERMLINE.—Dance, arranged by the Branch Committee. Cinema Exhibition arranged by Rosyth Sub-Committee.

EDINBURGH.—Annual Meeting on 28th October, Bailie Wilson McLaren presiding in the absence of the Lord Provost. Speakers : Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., Chairman of the Institution, Mr. Gilbert Archer, Master of the Merchant Company, and Mr. A. L. F. Smith, C.B.E., M.V.O., Rector of the Edinburgh Academy. Efforts of the past year : Life- boat Day; Orchestral Concert ; Bridge and Whist Drive ; Golf Tournament; Bonnyrigg Cinema Exhibition. Amount collected in 1932 £2,682, as compared with £3,360 in 1931.

Meeting of Ladies' Life-boat Guild, Lady Findlay, D.B.E., President of the Guild and Hon. Secretary of the Scottish Life-boat Council, presiding. Speakers: Mrs. Hour- ston, O.B.E., J.P., President of the Glasgow Ladies' Life-boat Guild, and the District Organizing Secretary.

Lantern Lecture at Fettes College by Commander the Hon. A. D. Cochrane, D.S.O., R.N., M.P., Vice-Chairman of the Scottish Life-boat Council.

Life-boat Stall at the Ideal Homes Ex- hibition from the 5th to 19th November.

ELIE.—Annual Meeting on 25th October, Lady Nairn, President of the Ladies' Life- boat Guild, in the chair. Efforts of the past year : Whist Drive and Dance ; Concert and Dramatic Entertainment ; Market Stall at Lundin Links ; Market Stall at Elie ; Concert.

Amount collected in 1932 £143, as compared with £151 in 1931.

FORFAR.—Life-boat Day.

GLASGOW.—Life-boat Dance, organized by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

GLENALMOND.—Lantern Lecture to Trinity College,by Commander the Hon. A. D.

Cochrane, D.S.O., R.N., M.P., Vice-Chairman of the Scottish Life-boat Council.

GREENOCK.—Annual Meeting on 21st October, Mrs. James A. Morrison, presiding.

Efforts of the past year: Life-boat Day.

Amount collected in 1932 £212, as compared with £228 in 1931.

GRANGEMOUTH.—Whist Drive, or- ganized by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

HA WICK.—Life-boat Day.

HOLM.—House-to-House Collection.

INVERNESS.—Life-boat Day. Bridge and Whist Drive organized by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

JOHNSTONE AND KIRKCALDY.—Life- boat Days.

KIRKCUDBRIGHT.—Annual Meeting on 9th December, Sir C. D. Hope-Dunbar, President of the Branch, in the chair. Efforts of the past year : House-to-House Collections ; New Galloway Sale of Work ; Castle Douglas Whist Drive, and Life-boat Days. Amount collected in 1932 £105, as compared with £135 in 1931.

LAURENCEKIRK, MAYBOLE AND MOTHER WELL.—Life-boat Days.

NEWBURGH.—Children's Fancy Dress Party, organized by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

PAISLEY.—Address to the Rotary Club, by Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., Chairman of the Institution.

Reception by the Duke of Montrose, Chair- man of the Scottish Life-boat Council and a Vice-President of the Institution, the Duchess of Montrose, and Major Harold Glen-Coats, D.L., President of the Branch.

Speaker : Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., Chairman of the Institution. Ladies' Life-boat Guild formed.

Special Meeting of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Speaker: The District Organizing Secretary. Life-boat Day.

PEEBLES.—Life-boat Day.

ROSEHEARTY.—House-to-House Col- lection.

SCOTSCALDER.—Life-boat Day.

TROON.—Annual Meeting on 3rd Novem- ber, Mr. James Clark, President of the Branch, in the chair. Efforts of the past year : Appeal by the Committee, Joint Church Service, Whist Drive, and Life-boat Day.

Amount collected in 1932 £114, as compared with £26 in 1931.

Special Meeting, Mr. James Clark pre- siding. Ladies' Life-boat Guild formed.

WHITEHILLS.—Inaugural Ceremony of the new Motor Life-boat on 5th October, followed by a Dance. (For special report see the last issue of The Life-boat.) Life-boat Day.

WHITHORN AND BAY OF WIGTOWN BRANCH.—The Branch has suffered a severe loss by the death of Mr. James D. Brown, its Hon. Secretary since 1919.

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

WISHAW.—Life-boat Day.

Lantern Lectures were also given at the Women's Rural Institutes at Athelstaneford, Borestone, Cameron, Carron, Colmonell, Errol, Farnell, Furnace, Greenhills, Kil- martin, Kingsford, Lendalfoot, Letham, Lochgair, Lochgilphead, Manor, Minard, Newmill, Newstead, Stratherrick, Strath- nairn, Tayvallich and Uphall.

Ireland.

BALLYCOTTON.—The Branch has lost a very valued friend by the death of Mr. W. H.

Garde, who was Hon. Secretary from 1922 to 1931.

BELFAST.—Annual Life-boat Ball. Lady Dixon, D.B.E., first Vice-President of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, received the guests.

CORK.—Third Annual Life-boat Ball.

DUBLIN.—Reception, at which Lieut.- Col. C. R. Satterthwaite, O.B.E., Secretary of the Institution, met the members of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Special Meetings of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, the Countess van Cutsem presiding.

Resignation of Mrs. James McNeil], wife of the late Governor-General, from the position of President of the Guild, was received with regret.

DUN LAOGHAIRE.—Mrs. R. De Courcy Wheeler appointed President of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, and Mrs. Cathcart Hon.

Secretary. Bridge Tournament, by kind permission of Mr. and Mrs. David Barry.

HOWTH.—The Branch has suffered a severe loss by the death of its Chairman, Commander J. C. Gaisford-St. Lawrence, R.N., D.L.

TUAM.—Life-boat Day.

Wales.

(Including Herefordshire, Monmouthshire, and Shropshire.) CAERLEON.—Presentation by Mrs.

Whitfield of Certificate in the Life-boat Essay Competition won by Caerleon Endowed School. Speakers : The Director of Educa- tion for Monmouthshire, and the District Organizing Secretary.

CARDIFF.—Presentation, by the Lady Mayoress, of Certificate won by the Severn Road Girls' School in the Life-boat Essay Competition. Speakers : The Lord Mayor and the District Organizing Secretary.

IRON BRIDGE.—Drawing-room Meeting, by the kindness of Mrs. W. Bishop. Speaker : The District Organizing Secretary. Ladies' Life-boat Guild formed. Hon. Secretary, Mrs. H. Fisher.

MILFORD HAVEN.—Life-boat Day.

MONMOUTH.—Miss Kay Lennox appointed Hon. Secretary of the Branch.

NEWPORT.—Lantern Lecture by the District Organizing Secretary to school- children at the Carnegie Library.

PONTYPOOL.—Life-boat Day.

SOUTH CAERNARVONSHIRE.—The Branch has suffered a severe loss by the death of Capt. Owen Evans, the Hon.

Secretary of the Porthdinllaen Station since 1917.

SWANSEA.—Presentation, by the Mayoress, of Certificates won by Swansea Schools in the Life-boat Essay Competition.

Speaker : The District Organizing Secretary.

WREXHAM.— Life-boat Day. Mr. A.

Williamson appointed Hon. Treasurer, in place of Mr. G. H. West, who had resigned on leaving Wrexham..