THE fishwives of Cullercoats this year collected £207 at the quarterly road exercise and launch of the life-boat, in spite of bad weather. This is £68 more than in 1935 and the record collection. The fishwives have now been collecting for fifteen years, and their total is £2,121.

The Newcastle Highland Pipe Band again took part in the procession, giving their services, and during the week the cinemas allowed collec- tions to be made at their doors.

Fifty collectors took part in the appeal. Mrs. Polly Donkin, now seventy-nine years old, who was not well enough to collect last year, again collected and again headed the list.

She collected £71, and the total of her individual collections is now £657..