A NOVEL form of appeal was tried in Norwich this year. In place of a life-boat flag day, a silent appeal was made. There were no collectors.

Instead twenty-six large life-boat col- lecting boxes, hung on davits, were placed at different points in the streets.

Each had a volunteer in charge of it in life-boat oilskins. These volunteers were all unemployed men. The boats were in the streets from eight in the morning until four in the afternoon.

The money was then counted at the Y.M.C.A. by members of Toe H. The response to this " silent appeal" was £85 7s. 10 Z. A further sum of £11 16s. lOd. was collected in small boxes sent to offices and works. With this sum and a collection at a cinema added, the total was £99 Is. 9d. That this " silent appeal " really did appeal to the people of Norwich is shown by the fact that it brought in nearly three times as much as the life-boat flag day held in Norwich last year.

Other branches which, for various reasons, find it difficult to arrange flag days, may like to follow the example of Norwich and make "silent appeals" instead..