By the death of Mr. George B.

Dixon, of Walthamstow, at the age of seventy-six, the Institution has lost one of its most valued honorary secretaries. He was appointed honor- ary secretary in 1923, and, in spite of the poverty of a great part of his branch area, he maintained a good sub- scription list, carried out an annual life-boat day and organized four or five concerts each year, covering in this way the whole of the borough.

During the last three years he continued his work with unaltered energy in spite of failing health, and in 1931 was awarded a framed life-boat picture..