REFERENCE has been made before in The Life-boat to the way in which old age continues to help the life-boats.

There are five more very touching examples of such service.

A Croydon lady 79 years old has sent the institution a parcel of woollen mufflers for the life-boat crews, which was " part of her lenten work." The institution has recently awarded its record of thanks and a lifeboat- man's statuette to Mrs. Tucker, widow of the late signalman at Moelfre, Anglesey, who has been a collector for forty years and still continues her work at the age of 86.

Each year the institution receives from a lady in Beckenham, Kent, now aged 94, gifts of woollen mufflers for the crews.

A lady collector in Surrey, who celebrated her 98th birthday in April, writes : "I have been trying for some time to get a larger sum than enclosed, but I cannot write the letters and in these hard times people are not giving so much." (The sum sent was larger than in the previous year.) A lady in Dumfriesshire has doubled her subscription because, so she writes: " I am now in my 103rd year and feel how uncertain next year's subscription must be.".