THE fishwives of Cullercoats this year collected £139 at their quarterly road exercise and launch of the life-boat.

This is their sixteenth annual collection, and they have collected altogether over £2,260.

Nearly thirty fishwives took part in the appeal, and Mrs. Polly Donkin, who is now eighty years old, again headed the list. She collected over £68, and the total of her individual collections is now over £730. In addition to the sum collected at the launch, the Cullercoats and Whitley Bay branch received from the Coast Charity Organization at Whitley Bay a donation of £1 11*. Qd., raised at the local Donkey Derby, at which a number of the fishwives who had collected at the launch again gave their help..