1st August to 31st October.

Greater London.

CLAPHAM.—Whist drive.

CROYDON.—Presentation by the Mayoress of the shield for Greater London in the life-boat essay competition, to Gordon Groves, of Portland Senior Boys' School, South Norwood ; and of the record of thanks awarded to Mr. E. Wilson, honorary treasurer of the branch. The Mayor pre- sided.

HACKNEY.-—Drawing-room sale, organ- ized by Mrs. Roland Smith.

HAMMERSMITH.—The branch has suf- fered a severe loss by the death of its chair- man, Mr. Claydon, who was mainly respon- sible for the founding of the branch and worked for it with the greatest interest and vigour.

HAREFIELD.—Concert, with address by the district organizing secretary.

HAYES.—Annual meeting. Speaker : The district organizing secretary. Efforts of the past year: Garden sale, whist drives and life-boat day. Amount collected in 1933 £118, as compared with £133 in 1932.

HORNSEY.—Dance.

MITCHAM.—Annual meeting. Speaker : The district organizing secretary. Efforts of the past year : Dances, whist drives, life-boat day. Amount collected in 1933 £128, as compared with £122 in 1932.

Whist drive.

ST. ALBANS.—Life-boat day.

WALTHAMSTOW.—Garden party ; pre- sentation of life-boat statuettes to Mr. E.

Hunt and Mrs. E. Hunt (nee Miss L. A.

Jarritt), and to Mrs. A. W. Burfleld (nee Miss A. M. Pattle).

Lectures and address in the Citv of London to the Little Ship Club, and the'British Sea Anglers, and at Battersea, Cranford, Hamp- stead, St. Pancras, Teddington and West Drayton.

North-West of England.

ABRAM AND BICKERSHAW.—Annual whist drive and dance.

ADLINGTON.—Whist drive and dance.

ATHERTON.—House-to-house collection.

BLACKPOOL.—Life-boat day.

BOLTON.—Whist drive, organized by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

BREDBURY.—Annual meeting on 18th October. Amount collected in 1933 £83, as compared with £38 in 1932.

Whist drive.

BURNLEY.—Life-boat day.

CARLISLE.—Whist drive and dance, organized by Mrs. Martindale, a member of the local branch committee. Life-boat day at Silloth.

CARNFORTH.—Life-boat day.

DALTON-IN-FURNESS.—Annual meet- ing on 27th September. Amount collected in 1932 £36, as compared with £35 in 1931.

Annual house-to-house collection.

DOUGLAS AND FLEETWOOD.—Life- boat days.

GREAT HARWOOD.—House-to-house collection.

HEYWOOD.—Whist drive.

HOLME.—House-to-house collection.

HORWICH.—Annual meeting on 26th September. Amount collected in 1932 £59, as compared with £61 in 1931.

HYDE.—Annual meeting on 16th October.

The Mayor, president of the branch, in the chair. Speaker: Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution. Efforts of the past year: Mayor's appeal for collections in works, life-boat day, whist drive. Amount collected in 1933 £97, as compared with £83 in 1932.

LAKE DISTRICT.—Pianoforte recital by Albert Thompson, arranged by Miss Belk.

LANCASTER.—Dramatic entertainment, which included the life-boat play " Their Business in Great Waters." PORT OF LIVERPOOL.

WALLASEY.—Annual dance and whist drive, arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. House-to-house collections.

MACCLESFIELD.—Address by the hon- orary secretary to the Y.M.C.A.

MANCHESTER, SALFORD AND DIS- TRICT.—Special meeting convened by the Lady Mayoress of Manchester for the purpose of constituting a City of Manchester Ladies' Life-boat Guild. President of the Guild, Mrs.

H. J. Wilson. Chairman, Mrs. Harold Baerlein.

CHORLTON-CUM-HARDY. — Annual whist drive, arranged by the Ladies' Life- boat Guild.

MOSS SIDE.—Whist drive, arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

HULME.—Annual meeting on 28th August. New honorary secretary elected.

WALKDEN.—Visit of the Ladies' Life- boat Guild to Fleetwood ; cruise in the motor life-boat.

MILLOM.—House-to-house collection.

MORECAMBE.—Life-boat day.

OLDHAM.—Annual meeting on 17th October, the Mayor, president of the branch, in the chair. Speaker : Sir Godfrey Baring.

Bt., chairman of the Institution. Efforts of the past year : Collections in works, life-boat day at Crompton, whist drive and dance.

Amount collected in 1933 £248, as compared with £255 in 1932.

ORRELL.—Social evening.

PEEL.—Life-boat day. Dance. Sacred service.

PORT ERIN.—Annual meeting held on 30th October. Amount collected in 1933 £323, as compared with £351 in 1932.

Life-boat day. Sacred service.

PORT ST. MARY.—Life-boat day. Sacred service. Dinner-table collection.

RADCLIFFE.—Annual meeting on 19th October. Speaker : The district organizing secretary. Efforts of the past year : House- to-house collection, dance, whist drive.

Amount collected in 1933 £35, as compared with £54 in 1932.

RAMSEY.—Life-boat day. Sacred service.

ROCHDALE.—Annual meeting on 17th October, Councillor W. Crossley presiding in the unavoidable absence of the Mayor.

Speaker : Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution. Efforts of the past year : Appeal for subscriptions, collections in works, American tea. Amount collected in 1933 £146, as compared with £155 in 1932.

Annual American Tea.

ST. ANNE'S-ON-SEA.—Life-boat day.

SABDEN.—House-to-house collection.

SEASCALE.—Life-boat day.

STOCKPORT.—Annual meeting on 16th October, the Mayor, president of the branch, in the chair. Speaker : Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution. Amount collected in 1933 £185, as compared with £222 in 1932.

TOTTINGTON.—Annual meeting on 19th October, Mrs. H. Barnicot, president of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, in the chair. Efforts of the past year : House-to-house collection, dance, whist drive. Amount collected in 1933 £76, as compared with £60 in 1932.

ULVERSTON.—Life-boat day.

WARRINGTON. — Annual meeting on 25th October, the Mayor, president of the branch, in the chair. Speaker : The district organizing secretary. Amount collected in 1933 £185, as compared with £189 in 1932.

North-East of England.

District conference of delegates from Durham and Northumberland at Tynemouth, on 27th October. Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution, presided, sup- ported by Lieut.-Col. C. R. Satterthwaite, O.B.E., secretary of the Institution, and the district organizing secretary. The delegates were welcomed by the Mayor of Tynemouth and the Tynemouth motor life-boat Henry Frederick Swan was launched and took the delegates afloat.

BERWICK.—Life-boat day. Garden fete.

BLYTH.—Monthly exercise of the life- boat with the Mayor, president of the branch, the ex-Mayor, Mr. J. W. Hogarth, chairman of the branch, and Mrs. Colpitts, honorary secretary of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, on board. After the exercise the crew and visitors had tea in the Watch House.

The branch has lost an old and valued friend by the death, at the age of eighty-seven, of Mr.

John Easton. He was its honorary secretary from 1896 to 1910, being awarded inscribed binoculars and the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum, and from then until his death a member of the committee of the branch.

CUDWORTH.—House-to-house collection.

CULLERCOATS.—Coxswain R. S. Arthur died in June at the age of 64, having served with the life-boat for over forty-seven years.

During three years of that time he was shore- signalman, and coxswain during the last four years.

Life-boat day.

DARLINGTON.—Garden party.

DEWSBURY.—Bridge drive.

FILEY.—Special meeting, Canon A. N.

Cooper, M.A., chairman of the branch, presiding. Speaker : Lieut.-Col. C. R.

Satterthwaite, O.B.E., secretary of the Institution.

FLAMBOROUGH.—Life-boat day.

GATESHEAD.—Bridge drives. Life-boat day.

HALIFAX.—Bridge and whist drives, arranged by Lady Fisher-Smith, J.P., chair- man of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

HARROGATE.—Life-boat day.

HEMSWORTH.—Jumble sale.

HIPPERHOLME.—Bridge drive.

HUDDERSFIELD.—Life-boat day.

KEIGHLEY.—Stall at Mission to Sea- men's Sailors' Week, arranged bv the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

LEEDS.—Bridge drive. Life-boat day.

MALTON.—Ball.

NEWBIGGIN.—Life-boat day.

NEWCASTLE.—American tea. Whist drives.

NORTH SUNDERLAND.—Dance.

POCKLINGTON.—Whist drive.

PONTEFRACT AND RIPON.—Life-boat days.

SCARBOROUGH.—Annual meeting of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild on 28th Sep- tember. Councillor Mrs. Whitfleld, president of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, in the chair.

Speaker: Lieut.-Col. C. R. Satterthwaite, O.B.E., secretary of the Institution. Efforts of the past year : Bridge drives.

Life-boat day.

SLAITHWAITE.—Life-boat day.

STAINLAND.—Whist drive and dance.

TYNEMOUTH.—District conference (see above).

WAKEFIELD.—Garden party.

WASHINGTON.—Lantern lecture.

WATH-UPON-DEARNE, WEST HARTLEPOOL, WHITBY AND WOMB- WELL.—Life-boat days.

YORK.—House-to-house collection.

Midlands.

BOSTON.—Life-boat day.

CHELTENHAM.—Whist drive and dance.

CHESTERFIELD AND CLEETHORPES.

—Life-boat days.

COALVILLE.—House-to-house collection.

COVENTRY, DUDLEY, GLOSSOP AND HADFIELD, AND GRIMSBY.—Life-boat days.

KIDDERMINSTER.—" Heroes of the Sea " film shown at Empire and Grand cinemas, with collections. Life-boat day.

Address by Mr. E. T. Moule at Wilden Church, Life-boat day at Stourport, and " Heroes of the Sea " film shown.

LEAMINGTON.—Annual meeting on 9th October, Lieut.-Gen. Sir John Keir, K.C.B., D.L., J.P., chairman of the branch, presiding.

Speaker : The district organizing secretary.

Amount collected in 1933 £192, as compared with £208 in 1932.

LEEK, LEICESTER, LINCOLN, LYE AND WOLLESCOTE, AND MABLE- THORPE.—Life-boat days.

MANSFIELD.—Life-boat day. Life-boat day, and " Heroes of the Sea " film shown at Warsop.

MARKET RASEN.—Life-boat day.

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

NORTHAMPTON.—Annual meeting on 30th October, the Mayor presiding. Amount collected in 1933 £224, as compared with £234 in 1932.

OLDBURY & LANGLEY.—Whist drive.

OUNDLE.—Whist drive.

ROTHWELL, SCUNTHORPE, SKEG- NESS, SOUTH NORMANTON, SPILSBY, AND STAMFORD.—Life-boat days.

STOKE-ON-TRENT.

NEWCASTLE - UNDER - LYME. — Annual meeting of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild on 25th October, the Mayoress in the chair. Speaker : The district organizing secretary. Amount collected in 1933 £29, as compared with £50 in 1932.

Life-boat day.

SUTTON-ON-SEA, WEDNESBURY, WELLINGBOROUGH, WORKSOP, AND WRAGBY.—Life-boat days.

Lectures at Painswick (Stroud branch) and Ulceby (Grimsby branch).

South-East of England.

ALDEBURGH.—Annual meeting on 28th October, Captain F. C. U. Vernon-Went- •worth, C.B.E., R.N., president of the branch, in the chair. Efforts of the past year : Life- boat day. Amount collected in 1933 £179, as compared with £222 in 1932.

Life-boat day.

AMPTHILL, ARUNDEL, AND BAL- DOCK.—Life-boat days.

BEXHILL-ON-SEA.—Annual meeting on 26th October, Commander R. D. B. Haddon, D.S.C., R.N., chairman of the branch, presiding. Efforts of the past year : Bridge drive, cinema collection. Amount collected in 1933 £52, as compared with £42 in 1932.

BIGGLESWADE.—Jumble sale.

BISHOP'S STORTFORD.—Jumble sale.

BLAKENEY.—Life-boat day.

BOGNOR REGIS.—Life-boat day and golf competition.

BRAINTREE AND BRENTWOOD.— Life-boat days.

BRIGHTON.—Collections along the front on the occasion of a visit by the Shoreham Harbour motor life-boat.

BURY ST. EDMUNDS AND CAISTER.

—Life-boat days.

CATERHAM.—Bridge and whist party at Warlingham, arranged by Mrs. Master.

CLACTON-ON-SEA. — Life-boat -day.

Life-boat Sunday. Whist drive, arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

CRANBROOK AND HAWKHURST.— Life-boat day.

CROMER.—Annual meeting on 30th October, Lord Suffield, president of the branch, in the chair. Efforts of the past year : Life-boat day, life-boat cup competi- tion, etc. Amount collected in 1933 £428, as compared with £362 in 1932.

Life-boat day.

DUNGENESS.—Naming ceremony of the new motor life-boat. (For special report see page 180.) EASTBOURNE AND DISTRICT, AND ELY.—Life-boat days.

FAKENHAM.—House-to-house collection.

FARNHAM.—Golf competition at Hank- ley Common Club.

FELIXSTOWE.—Life-boat day.

FOLKESTONE.—Life-boat days at Cheri- ton and Sandgate. Theatrical performance by the Elmsted Players.

GOODWIN SANDS AND DOWNS.— Naming ceremony of the new Walmer life- boat. (Special report on page 176.) HASBOROUGH AND DISTRICT.— Life-boat days.

HASTINGS.—Annual meeting on 12th August, at Highland House, St. Leonards, kindly lent by Lady King, the Deputy- Mayor presiding in the absence of the Mayor.

Speaker : Commander H. Strong, R.D., R.N.R., a member of the committee of management. Efforts of the past year: Life-boat day, theatricals. Amount col- lected in 1932 £373, as compared with £408 in 1931.

Life-boat day at Battle.

HERNE BAY AND HOLT AND DIS- TRICT.—Life-boat days.

IHUNSTANTON.—" Heroes of the Sea " film shown, with collection. Life-boat day.

HUNTINGDON AND HYTHE.—Life- boat days.

KESSINGLAND.—Whist drive and dance.

LITTLEHAMPTON.—Life-boat day.

LOWESTOFT.—Annual meeting on 27th October, Mr. F. Spashett, chairman of the branch, presiding. Efforts of the past year : Life-boat day. Amount collected in 1933 £171, as compared with £161 in 1932. Life- boat day.

MAIDSTONE, MARGATE, NEW- HAVEN, PALLING, RAMSEY, ROCH- ESTER, ST. NEOTS, AND ST. IVES (Hunts.)—Life-boat days.

SANDWICH.—Life-boat day and film shown.

SELSEY, AND SHEERNESS AND DIS- TRICT.—Life-boat days.

SHERINGHAM.—Tournament in aid of the branch carried out by the Sheringham branch of the British Legion Bowls Club.

Life-boat day.

SHOREHAM HARBOUR.—Life-boat day in Southwick and Portslade.

SOUTHEND-ON-SEA. — Life-boat day at Hadleigh.

SOUTHWOLD, TENTERDEN, AND UCKFIELD.—Life-boat days.

WALTpN AND FRINTON.—Life-boat day and life-boat Sunday.

WALTON-ON-THAMES. — Three bridge teas.

WATFORD.—Life-boat week. (For spe- cial account see page 183.) WELLS, WELWYN GARDEN CITY, AND WHITSTABLE.—Life-boat days.

WISBECH.—Life-boat day, including Wal- soken and Sutton Bridge.

Lectures at High Wycombe, Monks Ris- borough and Tring.

South-West of England.

ANDOVER AND DISTRICT.—Life-boat day.

BANBURY. — Bring-and-buy sale at Adderbury Women's Institute. Address bv Captain Basil Hall, R.N.

BLANDFORD.—Life-boat day. Presenta- tion of life-boat essay competition award.

BODMIN.—Life-boat day, in which some members of the Padstow life-boat crew took part.

BRADFORD-ON-AVON.—Life-boat day.

BATH.—Life-boat day at Midsomer Norton.

BRIDPORT.—Life-boat day in Bridport and surrounding villages.

BRIXHAM.—Life-boat day. Concert, and presentation of a gift from the branch to Ex- Coxswain W. G. Sanders, by the Rev. the Earl of Devon, a vice-president of the Institution.

BUDE AND CHARD.—Life-boat days.

CHANNEL ISLANDS.—Life-boat days in Guernsey, Alderney and Sark.

COVERACK.—Life-boat day and dance.

EXETER.—Special meeting of the branch and Ladies' Life-boat Guild officers arranged by Councillor Mrs. Reed, chairman of the branch, and attended by Lieut.-Col. C. R.

Satterthwaite, O.B.E., secretary of the Institution.

EXMOUTH.— Naming ceremony of the new motor life-boat. (For full report see page 179.) Life-boat day and dance.

FROME.—Life-boat day in Frome and surrounding villages.

FOWEY.—Life-boat day.

HENLEY.—Life-boat day at Shiplake.

ILFRACOMBE.—Life-boat day and sacred service from the life-boat.

The branch has lost an old and valued friend by the death at the age of eighty- three of Mr. N. Stephens, who from 1922 to February of this year was its honorary secretary. He was awarded the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum when he retired.

ISLE OF WIGHT.—Life-boat day at Ryde, Sandown, Ventnor, Sea View, East and West Cowes, Yarmouth, and villages.

LISKEARD.—Life-boat day.

LOOE.—Life-boat day, with visit of the Plymouth motor life-boat.

LIZARD.—Life-boat day and dance.

LYNMOUTH.—Life-boat day and carnival.

LYME REGIS, MALMESBURY, AND MINEHEAD.—Life-boat days.

NEWBURY.—Life-boat day. Presenta- tion of certificate won in the life-boat essay competition, at Leckhampstead School.

NEWQUAY.—Life-boat day, with pro- cession and launch of the life-boat.

OXFORD.—Life-boat day.

PADSTOW.—Life-boat days at Padstow and Wadebridge. Presentation at Wade- bridge by Colonel C. R. Prideaux-Brune, D.L., J.P., president of the branch, of life- boat essay competition awards.

The branch has suffered a severe loss by the death of Captain E. P. Hutchings, who had been its honorary secretary for nearly ten years.

By the death in June of Mr. Samuel Brown, a Trinity House pilot, at the age of eighty- three, passed away one of the survivors of the life-boat disaster at Padstow in 1900, when the steam life-boat James Stevens No. 4 cap- sized with the loss of eight of the crew of ten, and the pulling and sailing life-boat Arab, of which Mr. Brown was in command, was wrecked, though without loss of any of her crew. Mr. Brown was coxswain from 1899 to 1904.

PAIGNTON.—Annual meeting of the branch and Ladies' Life-boat Guild, Dr. J. R.

Julyan George, honorary secretary of the branch, presiding, supported by the chairman of the council and Mrs. Higgin, president of the Guild. Speaker : Lieut.-Col. C. R. Satter- thwaite, O.B.E., secretary of the Institution.

Presentation to Miss I. N. K. Middleton of the life-boat picture awarded to her by the Institution, and of a handbag from members of the Guild. Efforts of the past year : Life- boat day, house-to-house collection, bridge and whist drive. Amount collected in 1933 £185, as compared with £196 in 1932.

PENZANCE.—Life-boat day.

PLYMOUTH.—Annual meeting of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Speaker: The Viscountess Astor, M.P., president of the Guild, supported by Mrs. Buller Kitson, chairman of the Guild, Lady Humphries, vice-chairman, and Mrs. Bowen, honorary secretary and treasurer.

POOLE.—Unveiling in the Missions to Seamen Church, by Miss Lees, honorary secretary of the Poole Ladies' Life-boat Guild, of a tablet in memory of Henry Brown, for forty-nine years a member of the life- boat crew.

POOLE, BOURNEMOUTH, WIM- BORNE AND CHRISTCHURCH.—Life- boat days at Poole and Bournemouth.

PORTHLEVEN AND RINGWOOD.— Life-boat days.

ST. AUSTELL.—Life-boat day, organized by the Rotary Club.

ST. IVES.—Life-boat day and dance.

SALCOMBE AND HOPE COVE.—The branch has suffered a severe loss by the death, at the age of eighty-four, of Dr.

William Cock, president of the branch and chairman of the trustees of the Salcombe Life-boat Disaster Fund.

Life-boat day.

SALISBURY.—Life-boat days at Fording- bridge, Gillingham, Shrewton and Wilton.

Life-boat day and dance at Durrington.

SCILLY ISLES, AND SEATON.— Life- boat days.

SENNEN COVE.—Life-boat day and dance.

SHAFTESBURY.—Life-boat day.

SIDMOUTH.-—Life-boat days at Ottery St. Mary, Sidbury and Sidmouth.

SOUTHAMPTON.—Variety entertain- ment at Botley, given by the Roaming Players.

SWANAGE, SWINDON, TAVISTOCK, AND TEIGNMOUTH.—Life-boat days.

TORQUAY.—Ball and midnight bathing party on Goodrington Sands, to which the guests were taken in motor launches.

TOTNES.—Life-boat day at Buckfast- leigh.

TRURO.—Life-boat days at Perranporth, St. Agnes and Chacewater.

WATCHET.—Life-boat day and carnival.

WESTON-SUPER-MARE.—Whist drive, organized by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

Life-boat day. First bridge drive of a series.

WEYMOUTH.—Life-boat days at Wey- mouth, Portland and Lulworth.

WINCHESTER.—Life-boat day, and stall at the Butter Cross.

YEOVIL.—Life-boat day at Martock.

Scotland.

Meeting of the Scottish Life-boat Council in Edinburgh on 25th October, Commander the Hon. A. D. Cochrane, D.S.O., M.P., vice- chairman, presiding. Speakers : Rear- Admiral E. J. Hardman Jones, O.B.E., Commanding Officer, Coast of Scotland, and Lieut.-Col. C. R. Satterthwaite, O.B.E., secretary of the Institution.

ABERDEEN.—Life-boat pageant, and life-saving demonstration.

ARBROATH.—Meeting of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, Lady Chapel, president, in the chair.

ARDFERN AND AYR.—Life-boat days.

BANFF, MACDUFF AND WHITE- HILLS.—Annual meeting on 23rd October, Mr. Adam Walker, chairman of the branch, presiding. Speaker : The Town Clerk. Mrs.

Jessie Findlay appointed joint honorary secretary with Mr. V. Desson. Efforts of the past year: Opera " Princess Ida," whist drive, dance, life-boat days. Amount col- lected in 1933 £117, as compared with £130 in 1932.

Life-boat days at Cornhill, Portsoy, Turriff and Whitehills.

BIGGAR.—Life-boat day.

BRECHIN.—Life-boat day. Life-boat day at Farnell.

BUCKIE.—Life-boat day.

BURNTISLAND AND ABERDOUR.— Annual meeting on 24th October. Mr.

James Piper, president of the branch, in the chair. Efforts of the past year : Whist drive and life-boat day. Amount collected in 1933 £117, as compared with £102 in 1932.

Life-boat days.

CAMPBELTOWN.—Golf tournament at Machrihanish.

CARDENDEN, CARSTAIRS, COAT- BRIDGE, COWDENBEATH, CROM- ARTY, CULLEN, CULROSS, DUMBAR- TON, AND DUMFRIES.—Life-boat days.

DUNFERMLINE.—Annual meeting on 18th September. Efforts of the past year : Lantern lecture, cinema exhibition, dance, whist drive and dance, concert, life-boat day, house-to-house collection. Amount collected in 1932 £214, as compared with £135 in 1931.

EDINBURGH.—Annual meeting of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, Harriet, Lady Findlay, D.B.E., president, in the chair. In view of Lady Findlay's absence abroad this winter Lady Whitson was appointed acting president. On the resignation of Mrs.

Kenneth MacEwan, who was appointed a vice-president, Miss Lilian M. Roger was appointed honorary secretary. The report for the year was submitted prior to its in- clusion in the general report of the branch.

ELIE.—Life-boat day and open-air market, with visit from the Anstruther life-boat, which helped with the collection. Open-air market at Lundin Links.

EYEMOUTH.—Life-boat day at Chirn- side.

HELENSBURGH.—Life-boat day, with visit from the Troon motor life-boat, which helped with the collection.

INVERARAY AND INVERGORDON.— Life-boat days.

INVERNESS.—Life-boat day. Life-boat days at Kingussie and Aviemore.

ISLE OF BUTE.—Special meeting of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, the Marchioness of Bute, D.B.E., president of the Guild, in the chair.

ISLE OF SKYE, JOHNSTONE, KILWINNING, AND KINROSS.—Life- boat days.

KIRKCALDY.—Life-boat day at Kirk- caldy and Kinghorn.

KIRKINTILLOCH AND LENZIE.— Life-boat day.

KIRKCUDBRIGHT.—Life-boat launch and demonstration. Life-boat day at Dal- beattie.

LARGS, LAURENCEKIRK, LESLIE, LOCHMABEN, LOCHGILPJEAD, AND LOCKERBIE.—Life-boat days.

LONGHOPE.—Naming ceremony of the new motor life-boat. (Special report on page 181.) Life-boat day and dance.

MAYBOLE.—Life-boat day.

MELROSE.—Life-boat day at Newstead.

MILLPORT, MONTROSE, MOTHER- WELL, MUNLOCHY, NAIRN AND NORTH BERWICK.—Life-boat days.

OBAN.—Life-boat days at Mallaig, Ben- derloch, Connel Ferry, Taynuilt and Tober- mory.

PAISLEY AND PEEBLES.—Life-boat days.

PERTH.—Life-boat day at Crieff. Con- cert and lantern lecture at Crieff.

PITCAIRNGREEN.—Life-boat day.

PORTPATRICK.—Life-boat fancy dress parade and dance.

SELKIRK AND STEWARTON.—Life- boat days.

STORNOWAY.—Sale of work, organized by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

WICK AND WISHAW.—Life-boat days.

Lantern lectures at Culross, Dalrymple, Earlston, Fort Augustus, Harburn, Hermis- ton, Mallaig, Monzie and Gilmerton, Monzie- vaird and Strowan, Paxton, Sandford and Strathmiglo.

Ireland.

ARKLOW.—Presentation by the Earl of Wicklow of binoculars to the honorary secretary, Mr. B. Tyrrell, and certificate of service to Coxswain Thomas Hayes.

Speakers : The Earl of Wicklow, the hon- orary secretary, the honorary treasurer, the district inspector of life-boats, and the dis- trict organizing secretary.

ARMAGH.—Life-boat day.

ATHY.—Mrs. Toomey, president of Ladies' Guild, appointed honorary secretary of the branch.

BALTIMORE, BANGOR, AND BEL- FAST.—Life-boat days.

BRAY.—Life-boat day. Presentation of life-boat essay competition awards at Kil- macanogue.

CARRICKFERGUS AND CLOGHER HEAD.—Life-boat days.

CLOUGHEY.—Golf competition.

COBH.—Life-boat day.

CORK.—Annual meeting, Mr. D. F.

Doyle, H.C., P.C., presiding. Speakers-: Mr.

H. P. F. Donegan, honorary secretary, and the district organizing secretary. Efforts of the past year : Dance and life-boat day.

Amount collected in 1933 £407, as compared with £392 in 1932.

Life-boat day.

COLERAINE.—Presentation of life-boat essay competition prizes.

COURTMACSHERRY.—Life-boat day.

DERRYHASSEN.—Presentation by the Very Rev. J. Sheridan, P.P., of the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum and money awards to Mr. John McFadden and Mr. Michael Carr, for the rescue in a curragh, on 2nd September, 1932, of two men whose curragh had capsized in a heavy sea.

Speakers : The Very Rev. J. Sheridan, P.P., the Rev. Dr. Shields, the district inspector of life-boats, and the district organizing secretary.

DUNGARVAN.—Golf competition.

DUNDALK AND BLACKROCK, DUN- MORE EAST, AND ENNIS.—Life-boat days.

FENIT.—Inaugural ceremony of the new motor life-boat. (Special report on page 180).

FERMOY.—Golf competition.

GREYSTONES AND KILMORE.—Life- boat days.

KINCASSLAGH (Cruit Island) .—Presenta- tion of life-boat essay competition prizes.

KINSALE.—Golf competition.

LISTOWEL, LONGFORD, AND LUR- GAN.—Life-boat days.

MARYBOROUGH. — Branch formed, covering whole of Leix with exception of Portarlington. Honorary secretary, Mrs.

T. F. E. Morrow.

MILTOWN MALBAY.—Life-boat day.

NEWCASTLE (Co. Down).—Annual meet- ing. Speaker : The district inspector of life-boats. Efforts of the past year : Dance and life-boat day. Amount collected in 1933 £94, as compared with £89 in 1932.

NEW ROSS, SKERRIES, TRALEE, TRAMORE, AND TUAM.—Life-boat days.

WATERFORD.—Golf competition.

WESTMEATH (N.).—Dances, organized by the honorary secretary, Miss Rose Chap- AND WEXFORD, WHITEHEAD, YOUGHAL.—Life-boat days.

Wales.

(Including Herefordshire, Monmouthshire, and Shropshire.) ABBEY CWMHIR.—Presentation of life- boat essay competition prizes by the district organizing secretary.

ABERAYRON.—Life-boat day.

ABERDOVEY.—Life-boat day and hotel collections. Two dances.

ABERGELE.—Life-boat day.

ABERYSTWYTH.—Life-boat day and hotel collections, with launch of the life-boat.

BANGOR.—Life-boat day and house-to- house collection.

BARMOUTH.—Life-boat day and hotel collections, with launch of the life-boat.

BARRY.—Annual meeting of the branch on 25th October, Mr. E. V. Swallow, chair- man of the branch, presiding. Speaker : The district organizing secretary. Efforts of the past year: Life-boat day, house-to-house and cinema collections. Mr. A. C. Jones elected honorary secretary in place of Mr. Mostyn L.

Sims, resigned on account of ill-health.

Amount collected in 1933 £77, as compared with £31 in 1932.

Annual meeting of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

BLAENAU FESTINIOG.—Life-boat day.

BORTH.—Life-boat day and hotel col- lections.

BRIDGNORTH.—Life-boat day. Pre- sentation of life-boat essay competition prizes by the district organizing secretary.

BUCKLEY AND BISTRE.—Life-boat day.

CARDIFF.—Presentation by the Lady Mayoress of prizes in the life-boat essay competition to five schools.

COLWYN BAY.—Life-boat day and house-to-house collection.

CONWAY.—Life-boat day.

CRICCIETH.—Annual meeting of the South Caernarvonshire Ladies' Life-boat Guild at " Brynawelon," the residence of the Rt. Hon. David Lloyd George, O.M., P.C., M.P., Dame Margaret Lloyd George, president of the Guild, in the chair. Speaker : The district organizing secretary. Efforts of the past year: Life-boat days and cinema collections.

Life-boat day and cinema collections.

DOLGELLY.—Exhibition of life-boat films and collection.

EDEYRN AND TYDWEILIOG, FISH- GUARD AND GOODWICK, HARLECH, AND HAVERFORDWEST. — Life-boat days.

HEREFORD.—Branch re-formed. Presi- dent, Lord Somers, K.C.M.G., D.S.O., M.C. ; Chairman, Vice-Admiral F. P. Loder- Symonds, C.M.G., R.N. ; Honorary secretary, Mr. George R. Williams.

Life-boat day and cinema collections.

HOLYWELL.—The branch has suffered a great loss by the death of its honorary treasurer, Mr. Trevor Lloyd-Jones.

KINGTON AND LLANBEDR.—Life- boat days.

LLANDRINDOD WELLS. — Life-boat day and hotel collections.

LLANDUDNO.— Arrival of the new motor life-boat; civic welcome. Life-boat day and hotel collections.

LLANELLY.—Life-boat day.

LLANFAIRFECHAN.—Life-boat day.

LLANFECHAIN. — Presentation by Mrs.

Jones, wife of the vicar, of life-boat essay competition prizes.

LLANGRANOG.—Life-boat day.

LLANWNOG.—Presentation by Mrs. T.

E. Kinsey of life-boat essay competition prizes.

LLWYNGWRIL.—Life-boat day.

MARKET DRAYTON.—Life-boat day and cinema collection.

MORFA NEVIN AND NEVIN, MOLD AND NEWQUAY (Cardiganshire).—Life- boat days.

NEWTOWN.—Life-boat day. Presenta- tion by the district organizing secretary of life-boat essay competition prizes.

PENRHIWCEIBER. — Presentation by the district organizing secretary of life-boat essay competition prizes.

PENYGROES.—Cinema collections.

PONTYPRIDD.—The branch has suffered a severe loss by the death of Mrs. John Lewis, its vice-president. Mrs. Lewis founded the branch twenty-eight years ago, and in 1919 was awarded the gold badge of the Institution for her distinguished services.

PORTMADOC.— Life-boat day and cinema collections.

PORTHCAWL.—Life-boat day and hotel collections, with visit of the Barry motor life-boat.

PRESTATYN AND PWLLHELL—Life- boat days.

RHYL.—Life-boat day and hotel col- lections, with launch of the life-boat.

ST. DAVID'S.—Fete and carnival.

SALTNEY.—Presentation by Councillor Irvine of the Challenge Shield for Wales, and other prizes in the life-boat essay competition, to Eric Channell, of the Wood Memorial Boys' School, the vicar presiding.

Address by the district organizing secretary.

SHIFNAL. — Presentation by Mrs.

Crowther Davies of life-boat essay com- petition prizes, the vicar presiding. Address by the district organizing secretary.

SHREWSBURY.—Life-boat day.

TENBY.—Life-boat day and hotel col- lections, with launch of the life-boat.

TOWYN—Life-boat day.

TREFOR AND CLYNNOG.—Life-boat day.

WELLINGTON.—Presentation by Mrs.

Ward of life-boat essay competition prizes, the vicar presiding. Address by the district organizing secretary.

Notice.

THE LIFE-BOAT is published quarterly and is sent free to all honorary secretaries of branches and the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, to coxswains, honorary workers, subscribers often shillings and over, libraries, the principal hotels, and the press.

It is the current record of the work of the life-boat service, and the chief means by which it keeps its workers, subscribers and the general public informed of its activities.

Unless you are keeping a complete set of the journal you will help the Institution if, after reading this number, you will pass it on to a friend.

All contributions for the Institution should be sent either to the honorary secretary of the local branch or guild, or to the Secretary, Royal National Life-boat Institution, 42, Grosvenor Gardens, London, S.W.I.

All enquiries about the work of the Institution or about the journal should be addressed to the secretary.

The next number of THE LIFE-BOAT will be published in February, 1934..