1st February to 30th April, 1935.

Greater London.

ACTON AND CHISWICK.—Annual meet- ing on 29th April, the Mayoress of Acton, president, in the chair. Speakers : The Mayor and the district organizing secretary.

Efforts of the past year: Life-boat day.

Amount collected in 1934 £92.

BEXLEY HEATH.—Old-fashioned party.

Address by the district organizing secretary.

Address by the district organizing secretary to Rotary Club.

BRIXTON.—Whist drive.

BROMLEY.—Concert.

CLAPHAM.—Whist drives.

BALING.—Address by Mr. A. G. Spaull, honorary secretary of the branch, to the Hanwell Conservative Association (Women's Section).

HAMMERSMITH.—Dance.

HORNSEY.—Annual meeting on 13th February, the Mayor, president, in the chair.

Speaker : Commander E. D. Drury, O.B.E., R.D., R.N.R., chief inspector of life-boats.

Efforts of the past year : Dance, garden fete, whist drive and life-boat day. Amount collected in 1934 £307.

Guild- social. Address by the district organizing secretary.

ISLINGTON.—Lantern lecture and film display by Mr. F. Heffer. Lantern lecture to Boy Scouts by Mr. F. Heffer.

MILL HILL.—The branch has suffered a severe loss by the death of Miss Helen M.

Greatorex, its honorary secretary for the past 10 years.

MITCHAM. — Presentation of second searchlight by Mitcham Surrey Schools.

Lantern Lecture by the district organising secretary.

ST. ALBANS.—The branch has suffered a heavy loss by the death of Sir Edgar Wigram, Bt., who was its first president when it was formed in 1927 round the existing Ladies' Life-boat Guild, and who, when ill health compelled him to live at Bath, still maintained his interest in the branch and returned to St. Albans to attend its functions.

ST. PANCRAS.—Whist drive. Address by the district organizing secretary. Lecture by Mr. A. Leckie, assistant secretary, with films and slides.

TOTTENHAM.—Special meeting of life- boat day organizers.

WALTHAMSTOW.—Concert.

WESTMINSTER. — Surprise cocktail party at Claridge's.

Lectures to the British Sea Anglers' Association and H.M.S. President; and at Chislehurst, Cockfosters, Croydon, Hornsey, Richmond, St. Albans, Stepney, Tooting and West Norwood.

North-West of England.

ACCRINGTON.—Special meeting, at which the Mayor presented the record of thanks awarded to Mr. C. F. Fox, honorary treasurer. Cinema collections.

ASHTON - UNDER - LYNE. — Annual American tea.

ATHERTON.—Special meeting, Miss A. M.

Fletcher, M.A., presiding. Speaker : The district organizing secretary. Ladies' Life- boat Guild formed. President, Miss A. M.

Fletcher ; honorary treasurer, Mr. F. Peters ; honorary secretary, Miss D. Wilson.

BACUP AND BLACKBURN.—Prince of Wales Days.

BLACKPOOL.—Annual meeting on 12th February, the Deputy-Mayor presiding in the absence of the Mayor. Speaker: Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution. Efforts of the past year: Life-boat day, special night launch of the life-boat, life-boat service at St. Stephen's- on-the-Cliffs, collections in hotels. Amount collected in 1934 £699, an increase of £92 on 1933.

Annual life-boat service at St. Stephen's- on-the-Cliffs. Preacher: The Rev. F. B.

Freshwater, chaplain of the branch. Lesson read by Coxswain Harry Parr. The Black- C l life-boat band, conducted by Mr. J.

;r, accompanied the service, with Dr.

G. A. Armstrong at the organ.

BOLTON.—Annual meeting on 13th February, the Mayor, president, in the chair. Speaker : Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution. Efforts of the past year : Life-boat day, annual dinner, dance and whist drives, afternoon whist drive, bowling tournament, works' collections. Amount collected in 1934 £389, an increase of £29 on 1933.

Whist drive.

BURY.—Annual meeting on llth Feb- ruary, the Mayor, president, in the chair.

Speaker : Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution. Efforts of the past year : Life-boat day, bridge and whist drive, works' collections. Amount collected in 1934 £136.

CARLISLE.—Annual meeting on 15th February, the Mayor, president, in the chair.

Speaker : The district organizing secretary.

Efforts of the past year : .Life-boat day at Silloth, whist drive, bridge drive. Amount collected in 1934 £199, an increase of £16 on 1933. Presentation of the record of thanks awarded to Mr. T. G. Cowan, honorary treasurer.

Prince of Wales Day. Whist drive and dance.

CARNFORTH.—Annual meeting on 26th March. Amount collected in 1934 £70.

CHESTER.—Prince of Wales Day.

DALTON - IN - FURNESS.—House - to - house collection.

FLEETWOOD.—Social and concert given to the members of the life-boat crew.

HEYWOOD.—Whist drives.

HINDLEY.—Annual meeting on 20th February. Efforts of the past year : Life- boat day, dance, whist drive. Amount collected in 1934 £59, an increase of £2 on 1933.

Whist drive.

HORWICH.—Annual house-to-house col- lection.

HYDE.—Prince of Wales Day. Whist drive.

LANCASTER.—Annual football collec- tions. Annual cinema collections.

LEIGH.—Dance, arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

LIVERPOOL.—Annual meeting on 2nd April, the Lord Mayor, president, in the chair. Speaker : Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution. Amount col- lected in 1934 £3,241, including a special donation of £1,000, an increase of £980 on 1933.

LYMM AND HEATLEY.—Prince of Wales Day.

LYTHAM ST. ANNE'S.—The branch has suffered a severe loss by the death of Sir Thomas Smethurst, K.B.E., J.P., its chair- man for the past 7 years.

MACCLESFIELD.—Annual meeting on llth April, the Mayor, president, in the chair. Speaker : The district organizing secretary. Efforts of the past year : Mayor's appeal for subscriptions, life-boat day, col- lections in works. Amount collected in 1934 £125, an increase of £3 on 1933. Alder- man E. Eaton, J.P., elected chairman. The Mayoress, Mrs. H. L. Kirk and Miss W.

Bennett elected joint honorary secretaries.

MANCHESTER, SALFORD AND DIS- TRICT.—Address by the branch secretary to the Soroptimists Club of Greater Man- chester.

CHORLTON - CUM - HARDY. — Whist drives and social evenings, arranged by Miss Faulkner, a member of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

ECCLES.—Special meeting to re-con- stitute the branch. The Mayor presided and was elected president; Mr. E. Beau- mont Crowther, honorary treasurer ; Mrs.

E. B. Crowther, honorary secretary.

FALLOWFIELD.—Fallowfield Junior Life-boat Guild fancy dress dance.

HEATON MOOR.—Special meeting ar- ranged by the president, Mrs. William Brown, M.B.E.

PRESTWICH.—Special meeting held to form a Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Mrs.

Wild, J.P., president; Mr. S. H. Hardman, honorary treasurer ; Mrs. B. H. Awford, honorary correspondence secretary ; Mrs.

Kitching, honorary organizing secretary.

Whist drive.

MOSS SIDE.—Annual dance.

SALFORD.—Special meeting at which a City of Salford Life-boat Guild was formed. President, the Mayor of Salford ; chairman, Councillor E. A. Hardy, J.P. ; honorary treasurer, Mr. H. W. Glover; honorary secretary, Mr. C. P. Hampson.

NORTH SALFORD.—Annual meeting on 26th March.

SOUTH SALFORD.—Jumble sale.

WALKDEN.—Whist drive at Booths- town arranged by Mrs. Davies, a member of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

WHITWORTH PARK AND CHORL- TON-ON-MEDLOCK.—Special meeting of the Ladies' Guild.

MIDDLETON.—Annual meeting on 12th March, the Mayor, president, in the chair.

Speakers : Mrs. H. Bayfleld, chairman of the Manchester and District Ladies' Life- boat Guild and president of the Chorlton- cum-Hardy Ladies' Life-boat Guild, and the district organizing secretary. Amount col- lected in 1934 £58. Presentation of the record of thanks awarded to Mr. H. W.

Wood, honorary treasurer.

MIDDLEWICH.—Prince of Wales Day.

MORECAMBE AND HEYSHAM.—An- nual meeting on 14th March, the Mayor, president, in the chair. Speaker : The dis- trict organizing secretary. Efforts of the past year : Life-boat day, fishermen's concert, works' collections. Amount collected in 1934 £135.

NEW BRIGHTON.—The branch, and in particular the crew, have lost a devoted friend by the death of Mrs. B. J. Kirkham, widow of Mr. B. J. Kirkham, who died last year, and had been for forty years associated with the work of the branch. Mrs. Kirkham was also for many years a valued worker for the life-boat service and a very generous friend to the New Brighton crew. In 1920 she was awarded the gold badge of the Institution.

Annual meeting on 2nd April, and annual supper and entertainment to the crews.

PADIHAM. — Annual meeting on 20th February. Efforts of the past year : Life- boat day, whist drive. Amount collected in 1934 £21.

PORT ERIN.—Military whist drive.

PRESTON.—Annual meeting on 21st March, the Mayor, president, in the chair.

Speaker : The district organizing secretary.

Efforts of the past year: Life-boat day, Mayor's appeal for subscriptions, dance and whist drive, house-to-house collection, works' collections. Amount collected in 1934 £296, an increase of £187 on 1933. A life-boat day was held in 1934, but not in 1933.

Presentation by the Mayor of the gold badge awarded to Mr. S. Whitehead, honorary secretary.

RADCLIFFE.—Annual dance. Whist drive arranged by Mrs. Etheridge.

RAMSBOTTOM.—Bridge and whist drive and dance.

WARRINGTON.—Annual bridge drive.

WESTHOUGHTON.—Whist drive.

WHALEY BRIDGE.—Presentation of the record of thanks awarded to Mrs. Toler, honorary secretary of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

WIGAN.—Life-boat day.

North-East of England.

BERWICK-ON-TWEED.—Annual meet- ing of the Wooler section. Speaker : Lady Francis Osborne, president of the branch.

Amount collected in 1934 £12, an increase of £1 on 1933.

Social evening.

BEVERLEY.—Whist drive.

BLAYDON.—House-to-house collection.

BLYTH.—Annual meeting on 28th March, Col. the Hon. Harold Robson, a member of the committee of management and chair- man of the Alnmouth and Boulmer branch, presiding. Presentation of awards made by the Institution, to Mr. John Manners, honorary secretary, of the binoculars ; to Mr. C. E. Baldwin, J.P., honorary treasurer, of the record of thanks accompanying the gold badge, and to the bowman, Peter J.

Dullaghan, of the certificate of service.

Efforts of the past year : Life-boat day.

Amount collected in 1934 £334, an increase of £21 on 1933.

BRADFORD.—Annual meeting on 27th February, the Lord Mayor, president, hi the chair. Efforts of the past year : Life- boat day, house-to-house collection. Amount collected in 1934 £1,306, an increase of £6 on 1933.

BRIDLINGTON.—Annual meeting on 7th March, the Mayor, patron, presiding. Efforts of the pastTyear : Life-boat day and concert.

Amount raised in 1934 £231, an increase of £39 on 1933.

CONISBOROUGH.—Bridge drive.

DARLINGTON.—Annual meeting on 21st March, the Mayor, president, in the chair.

Efforts of the past year : Life-boat day, and whist drives. Amount collected in 1934 £187, an increase of £22 on 1933.

DONCASTER.—Prince of Wales Day.

GATESHEAD.—Annual meeting on 5th March, the Mayor, president, in the chair.

Speaker : Col. the Hon. Harold Robson, a member of the committee of management and chairman of the Alnmouth and Boulmer branch. Efforts of the past year : Life-boat day, garden fete, bridge drives. Amount collected in 1934 £175.

HALIFAX.—Dance.

HARROGATE.—Whist drive.

HEXHAM.—Dance.

KEIGHLEY.—Prince of Wales Day.

KIRKBURTON. — House-to-house col- lection and whist drive.

LEEDS.—Prince of Wales Day. Dance.

MALTON.—Whist drive and lantern lecture.

MARKET WEIGHTON.—Whist drive.

MEXBOROUGH.—Whist drive.

MIRFIELD.—" Bring-and-buy " sale.

MORPETH.—Annual meeting on llth February. Efforts of the past year : Life- boat day. Amount collected in 1934 £22.

NEWCASTLE - UPON - TYNE.—Bridge drive and dancing matinte. Bridge drive.

NORMANTON.—Prince of Wales Day.

POCKLINGTON.—Bridge drive.

PONTEFRACT.—Special meeting, ar- ranged by the Mayoress. Ladies' Life-boat Guild formed.

REDCAR.—Supper to Redcar and Tees- mouth life-boat crews, given by Mr. T. W.

Wilson, the Mayor of Redcar presiding.

The station has lost one of its oldest life- boatmen by the death of ex-Coxswain William Upton. He served as second- coxswain for 6J years, and as coxswain for 18£ years, retiring in 1923 at the age of seventy.

RUNSWICK.—Jumble sale.

RYTON.—Prince of Wales Day.

SCARBOROUGH.—Launch of the motor life-boat on the occasion of the annual conference of the National Union of Teachers.

SELBY.—Bridge drive.

SHEFFIELD.—Annual meeting on 8th April, the Lord Mayor, president, in the chair. Efforts of the past year : Life-boat day. Amount collected in 1934 £380.

SKELMANTHORPE AND SCISSETT.— Whist drive and dance.

SOUTH KIRBY AND EMSALL.—Whist drive and dance.

SOWERBY BRIDGE.—Annual meeting of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Efforts of the past year: Life-boat day and dance.

Amount collected in 1934 £45.

Whist drive and dance.SUNDERLAND.—Considerable progress has been made with the new boat-house and slipway.

Whist drive.

TYNEMOUTH.— Presentation to the crew of woollen scarf-helmets from Mrs. E.

Manby, of Codsall, Staffordshire.

WAKEFIELD.—Collections at football ground and Playhouse Cinema. Dancing display. Dramatic performance.

WHITLEY BAY.—Whist and bridge drive.

YORK.—Jumble sale.

Midlands.

BIRMINGHAM.—Special meeting at which Mr. T. J. Score was elected chairman in place of Mr. G. F. Igglesden, who has left Birmingham.

Jumble sale, organized 'by the Ladies' Life- boat Guild. House-to-house collections in Aston, Selly Oak, Bournbrook, Harborne, Erdington, and Edgbaston. Collections at Aston Hippodrome, West End Cinema and Gaumont Cinema. Whist-drive, arranged by the vice-chairman.

SMETHWICK.—Annual meeting, the Mayor in the chair. Speaker : The dis- trict organizing secretary. Amount col- lected in 1934 £54, an increase of £8 on 1933.

Two lectures.

HANDSWORTH.—Lantern lecture.

BRIERLEY HILL.—Whist drive.

BRIGG.—Prince of Wales Day.

BRISTOL.—Lantern lecture : " Sailing Ships," by Mr. James Randall, arranged by the Bristol Shiplovers' Society.

BURTON LATIMER AND KETTERING.

—Prince of Wales Day.

CIRENCESTER.—Prince of Wales Day.

COVENTRY.—Annual meeting on April 17th, the Mayor, president, in the chair.

Amount collected in 1934 £181.

CRADLEY HEATH AND OLD HILL.— House-to-house collection.

Day.

HEANOR. — Prince of Wales " Heroes of the Sea " film shown.

HOLBEACH.—Dance.

ILKESTON.—Prince of Wales Day.

KENILWORTH. — House-to-house col- lection.

KIDDERMINSTER.—Lantern talk on life-boat work, with slides, given by the head-mistress of the High School.

LANGWITH.—Whist drive.

LEAMINGTON.—Annual house-to-house collection. " Heroes of the Sea " film shown at the Bath Cinema, and another life-boat film at the Scala Cinema.

LICHFIELD.—Victorian tea-party and dance.

LONG EATON.—Address by the district organizing secretary to the Rotary Club.

MALVERN.—Lantern lecture at Malvern Preparatory School, by the district organizing secretary.

MARKET HARBOROUGH.—House-to- house collection.

NEWCASTLE - UNDER - LYME.—Whist and bridge drive, arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

NORTON CANES.—Prince of Wales Day.

NOTTINGHAM.—Dance.

NUNEATON.—" Heroes of the Sea," film shown at Atherstone. Dance, organized by Miss M. Bostock.

OAKHAM AND UPPINGHAM.—Prince of Wales Day.

OLDBURY.—Annual meeting, Mrs. M. R.

Growcott, chairman, presiding. Amount collected in 1934 £43, an increase of £3 on 1933.

PETERBOROUGH.—Annual meeting on 7th March, Lady Winfrey, president, in the chair. Speaker : Commander E. D. Drury, O.B.E., R.N.R., chief inspector of life-boats.

Presentation by the chairman of the record of thanks awarded to Miss L. M. Gray, honorary secretary. Amount collected in 1934 £206, an increase of £37 on 1933.

RUGELEY.—Annual life-boat ball.

SHEPSHED.—House-to-house collection.

SHIPSTON - ON - STOUR.—House-to- house collection.

SPALDING.—Dance.

STRATFORD-ON-AVON, WARWICK, AND WEDNESFIELD.—Prince of Wales Days.

WELLINGBOROUGH.—Prince of Wales Day. Whist drive.

WOLVERHAMPTON.—Prince of Wales Day.

South-East of England.

AYLESBURY, BEACONSFIELD and BECCLES.—Prince of Vales Days.

BIGGLESWADE.—Bridge Drive.

BLETCHLEY AND BRAINTREE.— Prince of Wales Days.

BRIGHTON AND HOVE.—Life-boat ball.

Lecture at Roedean School, by Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution.

BROADSTAIRS.—Address to the Young People's Fellowship by Councillor H. E.

Bing.

CAISTER.—Whist drive.

CANTERBURY.—Annual meeting. Cap- tain W. Vansittart Howard, D.S.O., R.N., chairman, presiding. Efforts of the past year : Church and chapel collections, cinema collections, bridge drive. Amount collected in 1934 £81.

Lantern lecture to the Women Helpers of Toe H. by Surgeon-Captain K. H. Jones, R.N., M.B., F.Z.S., vice-chairman of the branch.

CATERHAM.—Bridge drive.

CHESHAM AND AMERSHAM.—Prince of Wales Day.

CHORLEY WOOD.—Dance, with address by Captain Basil Hall, R.N.CLACTON - ON - SEA. —Annual meeting, Mr. H. J. Grant, president, in the chair.

Efforts of the past year : Life-boat Sunday, collections at the boat-house, life-boat day and other efforts organized by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Amount collected in -1934 £516.

CROWBOROUGH.—" Heroes of the Sea " film shown, with collections at Crowborough and Forest Row.

DARTFORD.—Prince of Wales Day and cinema collections.

DISS.—Prince of Wales Day.

DUNSTABLE. —Branch formed. Honor- ary secretary, Mr. W. G. Thompson.

EASTBOURNE AND DISTRICT.— Prince of Wales Days at Hailsham, Hellingly and Heathfield.

EAST DEREHAM.—Prince of Wales Days at East Dereham and Swaffham.

EAST GRINSTEAD.—Lecture by Miss M. C. Rowe, the honorary secretary, to " Young Britons " at Baldwins Hill.

ELY.—Prince of Wales Day.

EPPING.—Whist drive.

GERRARD'S CROSS, GRAYS AND DISTRICT, AND HALES WORTH.—Prince of Wales Days.

HASBOROUGH.—Whist drive at Bacton.

HASTINGS.—The station has lost one of its best-known life-boatmen by the death of Mr. Alfred Moon, who was bowman of the life-boat for 24 J years. He retired in 1927, at the age of fifty-eight, owing to ill health, becoming caretaker of the station.

Theatre collection.

HYTHE AND DYMCHURCH.—Life-boat revue. Address by the district organizing secretary. Presentation of woollen scarf- helmets from Mrs. E. Manby, of Codsall, Staffordshire.

KESSINGLAND.—Presentation by Cap- tain Guy Fanshawe, R.N., a member of the committee of management, of the gold badge awarded to Mrs. Brock, chairman of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. The Rev. F. W.

Emms, Rector of Kessingland. presided.

Annual life-boat church service, with address by Lord Elmley, M.P.

LINDFIELD.—Branch formed. Hon- orary secretary, Mrs. L. A. Knowles.

LITTLEHAMPTON.—The vellum record- ing the appointment of Commander H. B.

Boothby, D.S.O., R.N.R., chairman of the branch, as an honorary life-governor of the Institution, presented to him at the monthly meeting of the Urban District Council, Colonel C. C. R. Murphy presiding.

MAIDENHEAD AND DISTRICT.— Prince of Wales Day.

MARGATE.—Dinner to past and present members of the life-boat crew, given by Mr. T. W. Gomm, honorary secretary, and Mrs. Gomm. The Mayor, president, was in the chair, and presented the life-boat picture awarded to Mr. Kerbey Cleveland.

MARLOW. — Prince of Wales Day.

Theatricals.

NORWICH.—Address to the Rotary Club by Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution. Among the guests were the coxswains of the Caister, Cromer and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Stations.

ROMFORD.—Prince of Wales Day. Golf competition.

RYE AND WINCHELSEA.—" Heroes of the Sea " film shown, with collection.

SEAFORD.—American tea, with address by the district organizing secretary.

SEVENOAKS.—Golf competition at the Wildernesse Country Club, Seal.

SLOUGH.—Prince of Wales Day.

SOUTHBOROUGH AND DISTRICT.— Annual meeting, Councillor G. H. Wilson, chairman, presiding. Efforts of the past year : Life-boat day, special appeal. Amount collected in 1934 £.44, an increase of £10 on 1933.

SOUTHEND-ON-SEA.—The new boat- house and slipway have been completed.

SOUTHWOLD.—Presentation by Mr.

P. C. Loftus, M.P., of certificate of service awarded to Coxswain F. Upcraft, on his retirement. Alderman A. J. Critten, chair- man, presided.

TENTERDEN.—Jumble sale.

THETFORD.—Prince of Wales Day.

UCKFIELD AND DISTRICT.—Prince of Wales Day.

UPMINSTER.—Prince of Wales Day.

Progressive bridge drive.

WALTON AND FRINTON.—Life-boat officers and crew entertained to supper by the Yacht Club.

WALTON-ON-THAMES.—Dance. Bridge tournament.

WELWYN.—House-to-house collection.

WESTERHAM.—Bridge evening.

WINDSOR, ETON AND DISTRICT.— Presentation at Ascot of the record of thanks awarded to Miss Alice Stockton, late of Tenby WINSLOW.—Prince of Wales Day.

WOKINGHAM.—Competition at East Berks Golf Club.

WOLVERTON AND DISTRICT.—Prince of Wales Day.

WORTHING.—Annual meeting, the Mayor presiding. Speaker: Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution.

Efforts of the past year : Life-boat day in Worthing and district. Amount collected in 1934 £391.

Lectures at Chorley Wood, Offham, Woking, Wolverton, and Southend.

South-West of England.

APPLEDORE.—Civic welcome at Bide- ford by the Mayor of Bideford to Acting- Coxswain H. E. Pow and Motor Mechanic C. T. Hornabrook, on their return from London after receiving the bronze medal and the Institution's thanks on vellum, at the annual meeting. (See page 470.) AXMINSTER.—Prince of Wales Day.

BASINGSTOKE.—Annual meeting, Mrs.

Stratford, chairman, presiding, supported by the Mayoress, president. Amount col- lected in 1934 £54, an increase of £4 on 1933.

Prince of Wales Day.

BATH.—Annual meeting, Mr. H. K.

Ingham presiding. Speaker: The district organizing secretary. Efforts of the past year: Life-boat day, house-to-house col- lection, special appeal. Amount collected in 1934 £322.

Prince of Wales Day.

BURNHAM-ON-SEA.—Performances of " Prunella" by the pupils of Gardenhurst School.

COVERACK.—Presentation by Mrs. Lamb to the crew of woollen scarf-helmets, from Mrs. E. Manby, of Codsall, Staffordshire.

DAWLISH, DORCHESTER, AND EAST- LEIGH.—Prince of Wales Days.

EXETER.—Annual meeting, the Mayor presiding, supported by Mr. A. C. Reed, M.P., the honorary treasurer, Councillor Mrs.

Arthur Reed, chairman of the branch and vice-president of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, and Mrs. Pollard, vice-chairman of the Guild.

Speaker : Lieut.-Col. C. R. Satterthwaite, O.B.E., secretary of the Institution. Amount collected in 1934 £269. Presentation to Mrs. Arthur Reed of the vellum recording her appointment as a life-governor of the Institution. Mr. A. C. Reed, M.P., elected president, in succession to the late Rev. the Earl of Devon.

Tea-party by Mrs. Pollard to Prince of Wales Day depot-holders. Jumble sale.

Performance by Topsham Amateur Dramatic Society of the play " As you Were," at Topsham.

FALMOUTH.—Bridge tournament, ar- ranged by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

FAREHAM.—Prince of Wales Day in Fareham and adjoining villages.

FARNBOROUGH.—Performance at Fleet of the play " The Irresistible Marmaduke." HENLEY - ON - THAMES. — Prince of Wales Day.

ILFRACOMBE.—Annual meeting, Mr.

R. M. Rowe, C.C., president, in the chair.

Efforts of the past year: Life-boat day.

Amount collected in 1934 £128.

American tea.

LYMINGTON.—The branch has lost one of its three joint honorary secretaries by the death of Mrs. Kay.

Whist drive at Milford-on-Sea.

OXFORD.—Annual meeting, the Mayor, president, in the chair. Speaker : Vice- Admiral G. K. Chetwode, C.B., C.B.E., Admiral Commanding Reserves, and a mem- ber of the committee of management.

Efforts of the past year : Life-boat day, and house-to-house collections. Amount col- lected in 1934 £582.

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

PENLEE.—Bridge drive, arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

PLYMOUTH.—Members of the crew entertained to dinner by Mrs. A. G. Bowen, honorary secretary of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

POOLE.—Annual meeting of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, the Mayor presiding, sup- ported by the Deputy Mayor. Speaker : Lieut.-Col. C. R. Satterthwaite, O.B.E., secretary of the Institution. Efforts of the past year : Life-boat day and house-to-house collection. Presentation of woollen scarf- helmets to the crew from Mrs. E. Manby, of Codsall, Staffordshire.

PORTSMOUTH.—Annual meeting of Ladies' Life-boat Guild, Miss Breton pre- siding. Speaker: The district organizing secretary.

READING.—Drawing-room meeting, the Mayor presiding. Presentation by Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institu- tion, of the life-boat picture awarded to Mr.

G. Burton Fraser, late honorary secretary.

Prince of Wales Day. Address to Cholsey Women's Institute by the district organizing secretary.

ST. IVES.—Whist drive, arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Presentation of the certificate of service awarded to Mr.

J. W. Stevens, a member of the crew, on his retirement.

SALISBURY.—Prince of Wales Day.

Annual whist drive at Bemerton.

SHERBORNE.—Variety entertainment given by " The Magpies." SOUTHAMPTON.—Annual meeting, the Mayor, president, in the chair, supported by the Mayoress. Speaker : Commander E. D.

Drury, O.B.E., R.D., R.N.R., chief inspector of life-boats. Efforts of the past year : Life-boat day, special collections on Isle of Wight steamers, whist drives. The Mayoress presented certificates won in the life-boat essay competition for elementary schools.

Amount collected in 1934 £723.

Special appeals and collections at the Grand Theatre, made by Mr. C. J. Sharp, the chairman. Special meeting in connexion with Prince of Wales Day, the Mayor, presi- dent of the branch, in the chair, supported by the Mayoress. Speaker: The district organizing secretary.

SWANAGE.—First annual meeting of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, Mrs. Hastings, president, in the chair. Speaker : The district organizing secretary.

TAUNTON.—Whist drive at Blagdon.

THAME.—Annual meeting and concert, Lieut.-Col. S. E. Ashton, chairman, presiding.

Speaker : Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution. Efforts of the past year : Life-boat day, village collections. Amount collected in 1934 £73.

TORQUAY.—Annual meeting of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, Mrs. Callard pre- siding. Speaker : The district organizing secretary. Efforts of the past year: Life- boat day, whist and bridge drives, dance.

Amount collected in 1934 £210, an increase of £24 on 1933.Annual whist and bridge drive and dance, arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

TROWBRIDGE.—Prince of Wales Day.

WANTAGE.—Prince of Wales Day, and life-boat films at cinema.

WAREHAM, WARMINSTER, AND WELLS.—Prince of Wales Days.

WINCHESTER.—Prince of Wales Day, and sale of produce at the " Butter Cross." YEOVIL VILLAGES.—Prince of Wales Day.

Lectures at Alresford, Burghclere, East Hanney, Hartley Wintney, Highclere and Park Gate, Hook, Sarisbury Green, Sonning, Southampton and Thame.

Scotland.

ABERDEEN.—Annual meeting on 27th February, Mr. George Hall, vice-president, in the chair. Speakers : The Duke of Montrose, C.B., C.V.O., V.D., LL.D., a vice-president of the Institution and chair- man of the Scottish Council, Lady Lewis, and the Scottish organizing secretary.

Efforts of the past year : Annual ball, house- to-house collection, life-boat day, procession, dance and dramatic entertainment. Amount collected in 1934 £1,000. Presentation by the Duke of Montrose of the binoculars awarded by the Institution to Mr. George Alexander, honorary secretary of the Aber- deen branch, Captain T. A. Wyness, honorary marine secretary of the Aberdeen branch, and Mr. J. H. Johnstone, honorary secretary of the Gourdon branch.

ABERLOUR.—Prince of Wales Day.

ALLOA.—Annual meeting on 2nd April.

Efforts of the past year: Life-boat day.

Amount collected in 1934 £172.

ARBROATH.—Cinema concert, organized by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

BANFF, MACDUFF AND WHITE- HILLS.—Three performances of " The Mikado" by the Banff Operatic Society.

Whist drive and dance, organized by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Prizes presented by Lady Abercromby of Forglen.

BARRHEAD.—Prince of Wales Day.

BUCKIE.—The station has lost one of its oldest life-boatmen by the death of ex- Coxswain Alexander Cuthbert. He served as coxswain for 22 years, retiring in 1913 at the age of fifty-nine.

CARNWATH.—Prince of Wales Day.

CUPAR.—Special meeting of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, Mrs. Armour-Hannay, vice- president, presiding. Bridge drive.

DINGWALL.—Prince of Wales Day.

DUNDEE.—Reception for collectors on H.M.S. Unicorn, given by Mrs. Rettie, president of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

Special meeting of life-boat day conveners, Mr. Ralph C. Cowper, J.P., presiding.

The existing boat-house and slipway have been adapted for the new twin-screw 45 feet 6 inches Watson cabin motor life-boat which has been built for this station.

DUNFERMLINE AND ROSYTH.—Con- cert and dancing display by Miss M. Clark's pupils.

DUNOON.—Life-boat ball, attended by the Duke and Duchess of Montrose.

EDINBURGH.—Special meeting of col- lectors, Harriet, Lady Findlay, D.B.E., president of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, and honorary secretary of the Scottish Coun- cil, in the chair. Speakers : Rear-Admiral E. J. Hardman Jones, C.B., O.B.E., and the Scottish organizing secretary. " Heroes of the Sea " and other films shown.

Prince of Wales Day. Bridge and whist drive, organized by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Concert, organized by Mr. David Sharp.

Address to the Rotary Club by Harriet, Lady Findlay, D.B.E. Lantern lecture to the British Legion Women's Western Branch by Commander Robert Mends, R.N.

FALKIRK.—Prince of Wales Day at Falkirk and Polmont.

FORRES.—Prince of Wales Day. Lan- tern lecture by Commander Robert Mends, R.N.

GALASHIELS.—Bridge drive, organized by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Daffodil day.

GREENOCK AND PORT GLASGOW.— Annual meeting of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, Mrs. P. B. Wright, president, in the chair. Efforts of the past year : Life-boat day.

KILMARNOCK.—Annual meeting of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild on 10th April, Lady Rowallan, president, in the chair. Speaker : Commander Robert Mends, R.N. Efforts of the past year : Life-boat day and appeal.

KIRKCUDBRIGHT.—Lecture, under the patronage of Mrs. Yerburgh, of Barwhillanty, and Miss Duncan, of Danevale, by Captain D. J. Munro, C.M.G., R.N., on the Battle of Jutland, in aid of the branch.

LAMINGTON.—Prince of Wales Day.

LEVEN.—Special meeting, Provost Aitken presiding, at which a Ladies' Life-boat Guild was formed. Speakers : Dr. J. M. Johnstone, president of the branch, and the Scottish organizing secretary.

MONTROSE.—Annual meeting on 15th March, Ex-Provost W. Douglas Johnston, O.B.E., president, in the chair. Provost Soutar presented the certificates of service awarded to Coxswain Robert West and Bowman A. Stewart. Efforts of the past year: Life-boat day and appeal by the committee. Amount collected in 1934 £145.

NEWBURGH.—Dramatic entertainment, organized by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

VALE OF LEVEN.—Whist and bridge drive and dance, organized by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

WHITBURN.—Prince of Wales Day.

WICK.—Whist drive and dance, organized by the seine-net fishermen.

Lectures at Bolton, Cardenden, Ellon, Kelso and Madderty.Ireland.

BANDON.—Annual life-boat dance.

BELFAST.—Annual meeting, the Lord Mayor presiding. Speakers : Sir Godfrey Baring, chairman of the Institution, Lieut.- Col. C. R. Satterthwaite, O.B.E., secretary of the Institution. Amount collected in 1934 £872, an increase of £393 on 1933. Presenta- tion by Sir Godfrey Baring of the record of thanks awarded to Mrs. Gordon Park.

Dinner in honour of Sir Godfrey Baring's visit to Belfast, the Lord Mayor presiding.

Speakers : His Grace the Governor of Nor- thern Ireland, Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., and Mr. Thomas Richardson, D.L., chairman of the branch.

Popular dance.

BRAY.—Golf competition.

CLOUGHEY.—Visit of Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution, accompanied by Lieut.-Col, C. R. Satter- thwaite, O.B.E., secretary, and the district organizing secretary.

CORK.—Card drive, organized by Miss Kathleen Doyle and the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

DONAGHADEE.—Whist drive, organized by Mrs. Agnew.

DUBLIN.—Annual meeting. Speakers : Senator the Right Hon. Andrew Jameson, P.C., D.L., chairman, David Barry, O.B.E., vice-chairman, Mr. R. N. Guinness, honorary secretary, Mr. Walter Baird, Major Arthur Whewell, chairman of the special effort com- mittee, and the district organizing secretary.

Amount collected in 1934 £1,141, an increase of £81 on 1933. Presentation of the records of thanks awarded by the Institution to Mrs. Marsden and Miss Harvey Robinson.

Annual meeting of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, Mrs. David Barry presiding. Speakers : Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution, Senator the Right Hon. Andrew Jameson, P.C., D.L., chairman of the branch, and Lieut.-Col. C. R. Satterthwaite, O.B.E., secretary of the Institution.

Performance of play, " Tons of Money." Third annual life-boat ball.

GREYSTONES.—Concert, organized by Mrs. Afcher, president of the Ladies' Life- boat Guild. Speakers : The Lord Mayor of Dublin and the district organizing secretary.

KILMORE.—Presentation by Lieut.-Col.

C. R. Satterthwaite, O.B.E., secretary of the Institution, of the thanks of the Institu- tion inscribed on vellum, awarded to the Rev. H. L. Scott, on his retirement from the honorary secretaryship of the branch.

MARYBOROUGH.—Golf competition.

MILFORD.—The branch has suffered a serious loss by the death of Miss B. M.

Osborne, who had been its honorary sec- retary since 1927.

MILTOWN-MALBAY.—Presentation of the silver watch awarded by the Institution to Mr. Thomas Boyle, of Seafield, for his gallantry in saving three men whose curragh had capsized in a gale on 2nd December, 1933, by Mrs. Elliott, honorary secretary of the branch. Chairman, Rev. M. McKenna, C.C. Speakers : The district inspector of life- boats, and the district organizing secretary.

PORTADOWN.—Whist and bridge drive, organized by Mr. and Mrs. Blair. Speaker : The district organizing secretary.

PORTRUSH.—Cinema performance.

ROSSLARE.—Presentation by Lieut.-Col- C. R. Satterthwaite, O.B.E., secretary of the Institution, to five members of the Rosslare life-boat crew, of letters of thanks for the service to the trawler Mill o' Buckie on 26th January last.

TANDRAGEE.—Whist and bridge drive, organized by Mrs. White, president of the branch, and Mrs. Bebe, honorary secretary.

Speaker : The district organizing secretary.

WEXFORD.—Special meeting, the Mayor, Alderman Richard Corish, T.D., presiding.

Speakers : Lieut.-Col. C. R. Satterthwaite, O.B.E., secretary of, the Institution, and the district organizing secretary.

YOUGHAL.—Whist drive, organized by Mrs. Condon, president of the Ladies' Life- boat Guild, Col. Roch, president of the branch, and Mrs. Roch, honorary secretary of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Speaker : The district organizing secretary.

Wales.

(Including Herefordshire, Monmouthshire, and Shropshire.) ABERTILLERY.—Prince of Wales Day.

ABERYSTWYTH.—Special meeting, the Mayor in the chair. Speaker : The district organizing secretary. Ladies' Life-boat Guild formed. President, the Mayoress ; honorary secretary, Miss P. Ballard; honorary treasurer, Mrs. Mervyn Griffiths.

BANGOR.—Special meeting, the Mayor presiding. Speaker : The district organizing secretary. Ladies' Life-boat Guild formed.

BARRY.—The branch has lost an old supporter by the death of Mr. S. Harwood, who had been a member of the committee of the Barry Dock station since it was established in 1901, and had previously been on the committee of the Penarth station.

The branch has also lost a valuable worker by the death of Mrs. J. R. Llewellyn, chair- man of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild since it was formed; CARDIFF.—Annual meeting on 19th March, the Deputy Lord Mayor presiding.

Speaker: Lieut.-Col. C. R. Satterthwaite, O.B.E., secretary of the Institution. Efforts of the past year : Life-boat day and appeal by the branch secretary. Amount collected in 1934 £275. Presentations of life-boat pic- ture awarded to Mrs. Zuzzen, and of the framed records of thanks awarded to Mrs.

Alfred Thomas and Mrs. D. Evarard.

FISHGUARD.—Presentation of the cer- tificate of service awarded to ex-Coxswain J. D. Lewis. Presentation of woollen scarf-helmets from Mrs. E. Manby, of Codsall, Staffordshire.

LAMPETER.—Special meeting, the Mayor in the chair. Branch formed. Captain J.

Davies, president; Captain W. E. Jones, chairman ; Captain F. Bowen Jones, honorary secretary ; and Mr. D. M. Evans, honorary treasurer.

(Continued on page 496.)LLANELLY.—Prince of Wales Day.

Works' collection and cinema collection.

LUDLOW.—Bridge drive.

MENAI BRIDGE.—Special meeting.

Capt. R. R. Davies, honorary secretary for Anglesey, in the chair. Speaker : The dis- trict organizing secretary. Ladies' Life-boat Guild re-formed. Mrs. R. R. Davies, chair- man ; Miss Madge Philip Hughes, honorary secretary; Miss E. R. Fison, honorary treasurer.

MUMBLES.—Whist drive and dance, organized by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

NEWPORT (Mon.)—Annual meeting on 21st March, the Mayor, patron, supported by the Mayoress, presiding. Speakers : Captain F. W. Cutcliffe, the honorary secretary, Mrs. R. Rees, chairman of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, Mrs. J. Sadler, a member of the Guild, the district organizing secretary, and Mr. G. F. Day, assistant secretary. Efforts of the past year : Annual life-boat ball, whist and bridge drives, life- boat day, and cinema collections. Amount collected in 1934 £140, an increase of £30 on 1933. Presentation of a figure of a life- boatman to Mrs. Minchin. After the meeting a concert was given by Mr. Reginald B. Jones, Miss G. Gimmlett, Miss Vera Stacey, Mr.

Tom Ridd, Master Roy Quaintance, Madame Nella Martin, and the Navy League Sea Scouts. Refreshments were provided by members of the Guild and their friends.

Annual life-boat ball, organized by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Cinema collections.

OSWESTRY.—The branch has suffered a severe loss by the death of the Rev. O. F.

Jacson, its president, and an enthusiastic supporter of the life-boat service for many years.

PENARTH.—Life-boat ball, the first effort organized by the recently formed Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

PENMAENMAWR.—Presentation of the record of thanks awarded to Mr. J. I. Barratt, honorary treasurer and organizer.

PONTYPRIDD.—Annual meeting on 19th February, Mrs. Edgar Jenkins, president, in the chair. Speaker : The district organizing secretary. Efforts of the past year : Life- boat day, house-to-house collection, cinema collection. Amount collected in 1934 £62, an increase of £2 on 1933.

PORTHCAWL.— Special meeting.

Speaker : The district organizing secretary.

Ladies' Life-boat Guild formed. Mrs. Frank Gaskell, president ; Mrs. E. R. Bullimore, chairman ; Miss Margaret Grover and Miss Olive Jenkins, joint honorary secretaries; Mr. W. L. Grover, honorary treasurer.

ST. DAVID'S.—Work has begun on adapting the existing boat-house and slip- way for the new twin-screw 46 feet Watson cabin motor life-boat which has been laid down.

SWANSEA AND DISTRICT.—Annual meeting on 19th March, the Mayor presiding.

Speaker: Lieut.-CoI. C. R. Satterthwaite, O.B.E., secretary of the Institution. Efforts of the past year : Annual life-boat ball, whist drive and dance at the Mumbles, life- boat day and cinema collection. Amount collected in 1934 £186.

TENBY.—Bridge and whist drive, or- ganized by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

WELLINGTON. —Special meeting.

Speaker : The district organizing secretary.

Ladies' Life-boat Guild formed. Mrs. A. E.

Boulton, chairman; Mrs. H. Foulkes, honorary treasurer.

Notice.

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