A CONFERENCE of honorary workers from branches in the Greater London district was held at Life-boat House on 21st June. Representatives from sixteen branches and guilds were present, and Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution, presided, supported by Lieut.-Col. C. R. Satter- thwaite, O.B.E., secretary of the Insti- tution, and the district organizing sec- retary. Sir Godfrey Baring welcomed the delegates and thanked them for the generous help which the London branches had again given during the past year. Two papers were read and discussed : " The Organization of Branch Areas by Wards," by Mr.

J. H. Ford, honorary secretary of the Hornsey branch, and " Different Methods of Obtaining Subscriptions," by Air Vice-Marshal Sir Oliver Swann, a member of the Chelsea branch committee.

In the afternoon many of the dele- gates visited the Institution's store- yard at Poplar, where they saw the reserve fleet of life-boats, the work- shops and stores, and also the arrange- ments for the custody, reconditioning and issue of Jife-boat day supplies..