AT this conference delegates from fourteen branches and Ladies' Life- boat Guilds in Cardigan, Carmarthen, Glamorgan, Hereford, Monmouth, Pembroke and Radnor met at Cardiff on 29th May. Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution, pre- sided, supported by Lieut.-Colonel C. R.

Satterthwaite, O.B.E., secretary of the Institution, and the organizing secre- tary. The Deputy Lord Mayor of Cardiff, in the absence of the Lord Mayor, welcomed the delegates.

The conference included a display of the Institution's films.

In the afternoon the delegates visited the Barry Dock life-boat station.

The motor life-boat Prince David was launched and the delegates went afloat..