THE following summary of eight months' work by a new honorary secretary, Miss G. Coventry, of Milford- on-Sea, Hampshire, deserves to be put on record.

A year ago Miss Coventry bought an old life-boat (the Mevagissey, Cornwall, boat, 1897 to 1930, which had rescued forty-four lives) and con- verted it into a house-boat. She asked for a collecting box, and became a subscriber. In February of this year she joined the Ladies' Life-boat Guild and 'took over the organization of the Milford section of the Lymington branch, and in April became joint honorary secretary for Lymington.

In Milford and Lymington she has placed collecting boxes in the hotels and shops.

In Milford she has carried out a house-to-house collection single-handed, except for one road, collected subscrip- tions, organized and collected at life- boat day, and arranged dinner-table collections ; and at Easter and Whitsun- tide she had a life-boat souvenir stall.

In Lymington and elsewhere she has sent out appeals for subscriptions, and organized and personally managed a life-boat stall at a four days' exhibition of model boats.

In New Milton she has organized a life-boat day, collecting and selling souvenirs herself for twelve hours, and carried out a cinema collection.

Outside the area of her own branch she has organized and personally helped to manage a life-boat stall at a model boat and engineering exhibition at Bournemouth ; collected at Cowes life- boat day ; found an honorary secretary at Esher, started a house-to-house collection there, and helped to organize and collected at a life-boat day.

As a record of eight months' work, this should be hard to beat, and thanks to the generous support of those who have responded to these appeals, they have raised a substantial sum..