THE life-boat exhibition which was given in London at the Charing Cross Underground Station in May and June of last year,1 was given this year for a fortnight in Manchester and a week in Salford.

The Manchester exhibition was in the store-theatre of Messrs. Pauldens Ltd., and was opened on 29th May by Miss Violet Vanbrugh and Miss Irene Vanbrugh. Captain C. E. Froggatt, O.B.E., R.D., R.N.R., a member of the Manchester branch committee, pre- sided, supported by the Rev. F. Paton- Williams, rector of St. Ann's Church, Mr. E. Seymdur-Bell and Mr. T. Hyde, principals of the White Star Line in Manchester, and members of the branch committee.

The Salford exhibition was held in 1 See The Lite-boat for September, 1933.

the Pendleton Town Hall and was opened on 18th June by the Mayor of Salford, supported by the Mayoress, the Mayor and Mayoress of Blackpool, the Deputy Mayor and Mayoress of Eccles, the chairman of the Swinton and Pendlebury Urban District Council, Councillor C. P. Hampson, chairman of the West Salford District of the Manchester and Salford branch, and Mr. J. H. Borlase, North-Western Dis- trict secretary of the National Union of Seamen and honorary secretary of the Salford District of the branch.

It is impossible to say how many people visited the two exhibitions, but at the Manchester exhibition 10,000 programmes were distributed, and at the Salford exhibition nearly 4,000, while 8,300 were distributed in Salford outside the exhibition..