Greater London.

Life-boat stand at the Sea-roamers' Ex- hibition, at Messrs. Selfridge's.

BARNET.—Mrs. Ellicott appointed joint honorary secretary.

BATTERSEA. — Branch reorganized.

Chairman, Mrs. Mills ; honorary treasurer, Mr.

J. Morrish; honorary secretary, Mrs. Baylais.

Two lectures to the South Battersea Con- stitutional Association. Concert by the Lavender Hill Temperance Choir.

BEDDINGTON, WALLINGTON, AND CARSHALTON.—Christmas party and lan- tern lecture.

. BEXLEYHEATH.—Whist drives.

BRIXTON.—Dramatic entertainment at West Norwood by the Maude Booth Players.

BURNT OAK, EDGWARE.—Dramatic entertainment by the Woodhouse Players.

CENTRAL WANDSWORTH.—Miss Jen- nings appointed honorary secretary; Mr.

W. A. Daniels, honorary treasurer; Mr.

C. T. Witherby, honorary auditor.

CHISLEHURST.—Bridge tournament.

CLAPHAM.—Whist drives.

EPSOM.—Mr. F. A. Lee appointed honor- ary secretary.

HENDON.—Mrs. Leigh appointed honor- ary secretary.

HORNSEY.—Whist drive attended by the Mayor and Mayoress. Prizes presented by the Mayoress.

KENSINGTON.—Special meeting at the vicarage by permission of the Rev. Preben- dary A. E. Smith and Mrs. Smith.

KINGSTON.—Address to the Round Table by Captain Basil Hall, R.N.

PURLEY.—Mr. F. L. Payler appointed honorary secretary.

ST. ALBANS.—Dance.

SOUTHEND.—The branch has suffered a severe loss by the death of its chairman, Alderman R. Thurlow Baker. Supper and concert to the life-boat crew. Host : Mr.

H. A. Potter. Speakers: Captain J. C.

Johnson (pier-master), and Mr. J. Leslie Elliston, branch secretary.

STOKE NEWINGTON.—Mrs. Norman Collie appointed honorary secretary.

TWICKENHAM.—Branch formed. Mr.

Berkeley L. Moir, A.R.I.B.A., honorary secre- tary ; Mr. C. A. Pettit, honorary treasurer.

WALTHAMSTOW.—Carol singing. Lan- tern lecture by Mr. Richard Pettigree to Mechanics' Club.

WATFORD.—Life-boat day.WELLING.—Whist drive.

Lectures at East Ham, Enfield Chase, Hackney, South Harrow, South Woodford, and H.M. Prison (Boys), Wormwood Scrubs.

North.West of England.

ACCRINGTON.—Annual meeting on 9th December, the Mayor, president, in the chair. Speaker: The district organizing secretary. Efforts of the past year : Life- boat days at Church, Clayton-le-Moors, and Oswaldtwistle, bridge and whist drive, dance, cinema collections and collections in works. Amount collected in 1937, £145, an increase of £21 on 1936.

Annual dance.

BARROW-IN-FURNESS.—Annual meet- ing on 24th November, the Mayor in the chair. Speaker: Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution. Efforts of the past year : Life-boat day, whist drive, dance.

Amount collected in 1937, £242, an increase of £110 on 1936. Mrs. Thackara appointed honorary secretary of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild in succession to Mrs. Simpson.

Dance organized by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

BLACKBURN.—Annual meeting on 12th November, the Mayoress, president of the branch, in the chair. Speaker : The district organizing secretary. Amount collected in 1937, £125.

CLITHEROE.—Special meeting at the house of Mrs. Heaton, chairman of the branch. Speaker: The district organizing secretary.

CULCHETH-wiTH-KENYON.~— Annual whist drive.

DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN.—The branch has suffered a severe loss by the death of Mr. T. S. Everard, a vice-president and a member of the branch committee for over fifty years.

DUKINFIELD.—Annual whist drive and dance.

EARBY.—Bridge drive.

FLEETWOOD.—Annual meeting on 30th November. Mr. J. Wood, chairman, pre- siding. Amount collected in 1937, £826, an increase of £22 on 1936.

Fourth annual hot-pot supper and enter- tainment to Fleetwood Life-boat crew.

HINDLEY.—Annual whist drive and dance.

HORWICH.—Presentation by the sec- retary of the Manchester, Salford and District branch of the life-boatman statuette awarded by the Institution to Mrs. J. Carr, president of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

Two whist drives and dances.

KENDAL.—Annual meeting on 6th December. Mrs. C. H. Vhitaker, president, in the chair. Speaker : The district organizing secretary. Efforts of the past year : Life- boat day, bridge and whist drive. Amount collected in 1937, £128.

KIRKBY LONSDALE.—Life-boat lantern lecture by the Rev. W. Hartley. Life-boat lantern lecture at Staveley. Life-boat films shown, with collections, at Kirkby Lonsdale Cinema.

LANCASTER.—Annual meeting on 25th November, the Mayor, patron of the branch, in the chair. Speaker : Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution. Efforts of the past year: Garden fete, jumble sale, foot- ball collections, collections in cinemas.

Amount collected in 1937, £118.

Mrs. T. E. Ellwood appointed president of the branch in succession to Mrs. J. E.

Oglethorpe.

LIVERPOOL.—Special meeting at the house of the president of the Aigburth district. Speaker : The district organizing secretary. Life-boat broadcasts given by Mr. W. W. Harris, honorary secretary of the Port of Liverpool and district branch. (See special report on page 455.) LYTHAM.—American tea, organized by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

MANCHESTER, SALFORD AND DIS- TRICT : ALTRINCHAM AND BOWDEN.— Annual meeting on 13th December. The Rt. Hon. the Earl of Stamford elected president; Mr. H. F. O'Brien, chair- man ; Mr. A. E. Ireland, J.P., honorary treasurer ; Mr. W. L. Bowland and Mr. W.

Stanier, joint honorary secretaries ; Mrs.

Williamson, honorary organizing secretary.

AUDENSHAW.—Special meeting. Life- boat film show in Grammar School, Audenshaw, with address by Mr. W. T.

Wedlake, A.M.I.M.E.

BRADFORD.—Special meeting on 16th November to constitute a Life-boat Guild.

CLAYTON.—Address by branch sec- retary to Girls' Friendly Society.

CRUMPSALL.—Special meeting.

DENTON.—Annual bring-and-buy sale.

DIDSBURY.—Annual meeting on 12th November.

DROYLSDEN.—Special meeting. Life- boat Guild formed. President : Chairman of the Council; vice-presidents : Mrs.

Carrington Sellars, Mrs. Wignall: chair- man : Mrs. Baker ; honorary secretary : Mrs. Dockrell; honorary treasurer : Mrs.

Thomas.

FAILSWORTH.—Annual meeting on 13th January, the Chairman of the Fails- worth Urban District Council presiding.

Mrs. H. Clarke elected honorary treasurer in succession to Mrs. Ash.

GORTON.—Eighth annual cabaret supper dance and whist drive at Belle Vue. Address by branch secretary to Women Citizens' Association. Film show and address by branch secretary to the Gorton Ladies' Life-boat Guild and Women's Conservative Association.

HEATON MERSEY.—Special meeting.

MANCHESTER.—Annual meeting on 20th January, the Lord Mayor of Man- chester in the chair, supported by theMayor of Stretford, the Bishop of Salford, Sir William Davy, J.P., honorary trea- surer, Alderman E. A. Hardy, J.P., Mr.

P. M. Oliver, C.B.E., honorary secretary, the Chairman of the Urmston Urban District Council, the Chairman of the Hale Urban District Council, and Mr. T. G.

Da vies. Speaker : Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution. Amount col- lected in 1937, £2,960, an increase of £199 on 1936.

Lord Mayor's Sunday. Special meeting to elect Mrs. Henry Bronnert. honorary secretary of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

Speakers : Mr. P. M. Oliver, C.B.E., and the district organizing secretary. Cunard White Star Limited Cruise Reunion dinner and dance.

NEW MOSTON.—Annual meeting on December 7th. Annual dance.

URMSTON.—Annual dance..

WALKDEN.—Annual dance.

WHITWORTH PARK AND CHORL- TON-ON-MEDLOCK. — Annual meeting on 9th December. Miss A. Robinson elected president in succession to Mrs.

Bancroft, Miss H. Robinson elected honorary treasurer in succession to Miss Bancroft, and Miss Heywood elected honorary secretary in succession to Miss A. Robinson.

MARYPORT.—Annual supper and enter- tainment to the life-boat crew, arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Whist drive.

MIDDLETON.—The branch has suffered a severe loss through the death of Mrs.

Fairbrother, who had been honorary sec- retary since 1930.

Annual meeting on 4th November, the Mayor, president, in the chair. Speaker: The district organizing secretary. Efforts of the past year : Life-boat day, whist drive.

Amount collected in 1937, £58. Mrs. F. L.

Kay appointed honorary secretary.

MORECAMBE AND HEYSHAM.— Annual meeting on 3rd December. Speaker : The district organizing secretary. Efforts of the past year : Life-boat day, collections on steamers, fishermen's choir concerts.

Amount collected in 1937, £241, an increase of £13 on 1936.

OLDHAM.—Annual whist drive and dance, organized by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

ORRELL.—Annual whist drive.

PADIHAM.—Annual meeting on 19th November, Mrs. Manders, president, in the chair. Speaker : The district organizing secretary. Efforts of the past year : Life- boat day, annual supper. Amount collected in 1937, £14.

Beetle drive.

POYNTON.—Annual meeting on 19th January. Speaker : The district organizing secretary. Efforts of the past year : Life- boat day, whist drive and dance. Amount collected in 1937, £43.

RAMSBOTTOM.—Annual meeting of the branch on 20th December, the Chairman of the Urban District Council, president, in the chair. Amount collected in 1937, £81, an increase of £11 on 1936.

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

RAMSEY.—Annual meeting on 12th November, the Rev. M. W. Harrison, chairman, presiding. Amount collected in 1937, £167.

ROCHDALE.—Annual meeting on 25th January, the Mayor, president, in the chair.

Speaker: Lieut.-Col. C. R. Satterthwaite, O.B.E., secretary of the Institution. Efforts of the past year: Annual American tea.

Amount collected in 1937, £151. Miss Pawson elected honorary secretary in. suc- cession to Miss H. Hall.

ST. HELENS.—Special meeting at Windle Hall on 20th January, the Mayor and Mayoress being present. Speaker : The dis- trict organizing secretary. Ladies' Life-boat Guild formed. President, Mrs. W. H.

Pilkington ; chairman, Mrs. E. J. Robinson ; honorary treasurer, Mrs. Latham ; Honorary secretary, Mrs. J. L. Angel.

SILVERDALE.—Annual meeting on 18th November at the house of Mrs; Sharp, president. Speaker : The district organizing secretary. ESorts of the past year •. Life- boat day, " Grey Walls " gardens opened by permission of Mrs. Sharp. Amount collected in 1937, £41.

SOUTHPORT.—Annual meeting on 2nd December, the Mayor in the chair. Speaker : The district organizing secretary. Amount collected in 1937, £323, an increase of £50 on 1936.

Annual dance. Address to the Young People's Club of the Leyland Road Methodist Church.

STOCKPORT,—Annual meeting on 22nd November, Mr. J. Moult, chairman,-presiding.

Efforts of the past year : Life-boat day, whist drive. Amount collected in 1937, £149.

Life-boat service at St. George's Church, at which the Mayor and Mayoress were present, and officers and members of the branch committee. Preacher : The Rev. A. du T.

Pownall.

TYLDESLEY.—American tea and cabaret show. Whist drive and dance. Whist drive arranged by Dr. and Mrs. Smithson.

WALLASEY.—Annual meeting on 2nd November, the Mayor, president, in the chair. Speaker : The Rev. R. Norton Betts, M.C., M.A., Rector of Wallasey.

WESTHOUGHTON.—Annual meeting on 17th November, Councillor W. Lowe, 5.P., president, in the chair. Speaker : the district organizing secretary. Amount collected in 1937, £23, an increase of £3 on 1936.

WHITEHAVEN.—Annual meeting on 7th January. Speaker : The district organizing secretary.

WIGAN.—The branch has suffered a severe loss through the death of Mrs. W. H. Tyrer, J.P., who had worked for many years and had been honorary secretary since 1926. Mrs.

Tyrer was awarded by the Institution a life-boat picture in 1934, Annual meeting on 1st December, theMayoress, president, in the chair. Speaker: The district organizing secretary. Efforts of the past year: Life-boat day, bridge drives.

Amount collected in 1937, £142. Mrs. Stanley Bell elected honorary secretary.

WORKINGTON.—Annual adults' and children's balls.

North-East of England.

ALNWICK.—Dance.

BARNARD CASTLE.—Jumble sale.

BEDLINGTON.—Whist drive and dance.

BERWICK.—Annual meeting on 24th November, the Mayor presiding. Efforts of the past year : Life-boat day, whist drive, dance. Amount collected in 1937, £179.

BEVERLEY.—Whist drive.

BLYTH.—Annual meeting of Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Amount collected in 1937, £29, an increase of £5 on 1936.

Whist drive and dance.

BRADFORD.—Annual matinee at Al- hambra Theatre.

BRIDLINGTON.—Presentation by the Mayor of a. silver tea-service from the people to Coxswain E. Welburn on his retirement.

CONISBOROUGH.—Whist drive.

CONSETT.—Bring-and-buy sale.

DARLINGTON.—Whist and bridge drive.

DONCASTER.—Annual meeting on 17th January, the Mayor presiding. Speaker: Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution. Efforts of the past year: Jumble sale, life-boat day. Amount col- lected in 1937, £279, an increase of £60 on 1936.

DRIFFIELD.—Lantern lecture.

GATESHEAD.—Bridge drive.

HARROGATE.—Annual meeting of Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Amount collected in 1937, £208, an increase of £60 on 1936.

HARTLEPOOL.—The station has lost a distinguished former honorary secretary by the death of Mr. Alfred Belk. (See " Obituary.") HAUXLEY AND AMBLE.—Bridge and whist drive.

HEBDEN BRIDGE.—House-to-house col- lection.

HOLY ISLAND.—The station has lost a distinguished former coxswain by the death of Mr. Thomas Kyle. (See " Obituary.") HOLMFIRTH.—Whist drive and dance.

HUDDERSFIELD.—Annual meeting of Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Amount collected in 1937, £263.

LEEDS. — Annual meeting on 18th January, the Lord Mayor presiding. Speaker Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution. Efforts of the past year : Life-boat day, dance, golf-club competition, whist drive and dance. Amount collected in 1937, £944, an increase of £194 on 1936.

MARKET WEIGHTON.—Whist drive.

MELTHAM.—Whist drive.

NEWCASTLE.—Bridge drives.

NORTHUMBERLAND.—County life-boat ball.

REDCAR.—Annual meeting on 18th November, Dr. A. S. Robinson, chairman, presiding. Efforts of the past year : Life- boat day, whist drives. Amount collected in 1937, £169.

SEAHAM.—Junior ball, whist drive and dance.

SELBY.—Annual meeting of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Amount collected in 1937, £63.

Bridge drive.

SKELMANTHORPE AND SCISSET.— Whist drive and dance.

SLEIGHTS.—Concert.

SOUTH SHIELDS.—Bazaar.

SOWERBY BRIDGE.—Whist drive, dance and whist drive.

SPENBOROUGH.—Bridge and whist drive.

STAMFORDHAM. — Whist drive and dance.

STOCKTON.—Dance.

SUNDERLAND.—Social.

TYNEMOUTH.—Annual meeting of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Supper to the life-boat crew.

WADWORTH, WAKEFIELD AND WARMSWORTH.—Whist drives.

WEST HARTLEPOOL.—Bridge and whist drive.

WITHERNSEA.—Bridge and whist drive.

Midlands.

BELPER.—Life-boat film "Boats that Save Life " shown.

BIRMINGHAM.—Annual meeting, Mr.

C. H. Dobinson, M.A., chairman, presiding.

Speaker : Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution. Amount collected in 1937, £2,347.

Life-boat ball. Addresses to the Christ Church Summerfield Social Guild; the N.S.P.A., and the West Bromwich com- mittee.

BRISTOL.—Life-boat ball. Several lec- tures by Mr. G. F. Igglesden, honorary treasurer, and Mr. Grahame E. Farr.

CHELTENHAM. — Address by Miss Wanklyn, honorary secretary, to the League of Women Helpers.

CLEETHORPES.—Whist drive, organized by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

LANGWITH.—Household and jumble sale.

NEWARK.—Annual meeting, the Mayor presiding. Speaker : Lieut.-Col. C. R. Satter- thwaitfe, O.B.E., secretary of the Institution.

Amount collected in 1937, £71, an increase of £6 on 1936.

NOTTINGHAM.—Life-boat ball.

OWSTON FERRY.—Concert.

RUGELEY.—Life-boat ball.

STOKE-ON-TRENT.—Bridge drive.

WARWICK.—Life-boat ball.

WOLVERHAMPTON.—Life-boat ball and dinner dance. Presentation by Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution, of the gold badge awarded by the Institution to Mrs. E. A. Manby.

Lectures at Bromsgrove and Wednesbury.South-East of England.

ALDEBURGH AND DISTRICT.— Annual meeting, Captain F. C. U. Vernon Wentworth, C.B., R.N., president, in the chair. Efforts of the past year : Life-boat day in Aldeburgh and district arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, church collection.

Amount collected in 1937, £124.

Dance at Leiston, church collection.

ATTLEBOROUGH.—Life-boat day; life- boat film " Boats that Save Life " shown, with collections.

BEXHILL. — Annual meeting, Rear- Admiral C. A. M. Sarel, O.B.E., R.N., chairman, presiding. Amount collected in 1937, £102.

BOGNOR REGIS.—Carol singing.

BRENTWOOD.—Life-boat film "Boats that Save Life " shown, with collections.

CAISTER.—Whist drive.

CAMBERLEY.—Cafe chantant.

CANTERBURY.—Retiring church col- lection.

CHATHAM.—Dancing display by the Modern School of Dancing and Physical Culture.

CHELMSFORD.—Whist drive. Lecture at East Hanningfield Women's Institute.

CLACTON-ON-SEA.—The station has lost a distinguished former coxswain by the death of Mr. Jesse Salmon. (See " Obituary.") Annual meeting of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, Mrs. Percy Coleman, J.P., president, in the chair. Speaker : Lieut.-Col. A. D.

Burnett Brown, M.C., T.D., deputy secretary of the Institution. Efforts of the past year : Life-boat day and whist drive. Amount collected in 1937, £147.

Whist drive arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Visit of the motor life- boat to the Barrow Deep, Mid-Barrow and Edinburgh Lightships, with Christmas gifts from the people of Clacton.

CROMER.—Annual meeting. Efforts of the past year : Naming ceremony of the two new motor life-boats, life-boat day. Amount collected in 1937, £646.

DARTFORD.—Whist drive.

EASTBOURNE.—Annual meeting, the Mayor presiding. Speaker: Lieut.-Col. J.

Benskin, D.S.O., O.B.E., D.L., J.P., a member of the committee of management of the Institution. Efforts of the past year : Life-boat days in Eastbourne and district, half proceeds of a garden fete, and other collections arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Amount collected in 1937, £1,692, including a special donation of £250, an increase of £404 on 1936.

Concert given by the Eastbourne Orchestral Society.

EAST DEREHAM.—Life-boat film" Boats that Save Life " shown, with collections.

EAST GRINSTEAD.—Carol singing.

EDENBRIDGE.—Jumble sale.

EPPING.—Whist drive. Dance. Lecture at North Weald Women's Institute.

FOLKESTONE.—Series of bridge drives.

GRAVESEND.—Cinema collection.

HALSTEAD AND GOSFIELD.—Concert at Gosfield, by kind permission of Mrs.

Lowe, president of the branch.

HASBOROUGH AND DISTRICT.— Whist drive at Bacton.

HASLEMERE.—The branch has suffered a severe loss through the death of Miss E. M.

Francis, who, with her sister, had acted as honorary secretary from 1930 to September, 1937.

HASTINGS AND ST. LEONARDS.— Annual meeting, the deputy mayor presiding.

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 days at Hastings and Battle, blessing-of-the-sea service, church collection, cinema and theatre collections, house - to - house collections.

Amount collected in 1937, £717, an increase of £64 on 1936.

Half proceeds of a whist drive arranged by the Westfleld Women's Institute.

HITCHIN.—Whist drive.

HORSHAM.—Life-boat film " Boats that Save Life " shown, with collections.

KESSINGLAND.—The station has lost two former coxswains by the death of Mr.

Edward Wigg, who retired in 1929, after serving as coxswain for fourteen years, and Mr. Edward J. Smith. (See " Obituary.") Whist drive and dance.

LEATHERHEAD.—Carol singing.

LITTLEHAMPTON.—Dance.

LOWESTOFT.—Annual meeting, the Rev.

G. R. P. Preston, M.A., president, in the chair. Efforts of the past yeai -. Life-boat day. Amount collected in 1937, £212, an increase of £9 on 1936. Lady Somerleyton appointed president in succession to the Rev.

G. R. P. Preston, who was appointed vice- president. Presentation by the Rev. G. R. P.

Preston of the certificate of service awarded by the Institution to Second Coxswain H. G.

Rose on his retirement.

MARGATE AND HERNE BAY.—The station has lost a distinguished former cox- swain by the death of Mr. Stephen Clayson.

(See " Obituary.") Visit of the motor life-boat to the Tongue and Edinburgh Lightships with Christmas gifts from the people of Margate, and to the Girdler Lightship with gifts from the people of Herne Bay.

MARLOW.—Carol singing. Lecture at Bovingdon Green Women's Institute.

MIDHURST.—Whist drive arranged by the Fernhurst Scouts. Lecture at Lods- worth Women's Institute.

NEWHAVEN.—Annual meeting, Mr. A. J.

Funnell, acting chairman, presiding. Efforts of the past year : Life-boat days at New- haven, Peacehaven, and Telscombe. Amount collected in 1937, £89, an increase of £18 on 1936. Lord Rothschild appointed president in succession to the late Lord Rothschild, and Mr. A. J. Cardy appointed chairman in succession to the late Mr. R. W. Dewdney.NEWMARKET.—Life-boat film "Boats that Save Life " shown, with collections.

NUTFIELD.—Whist drive.

RAMSGATE.—Visit of the motor life- boat to the Brake Lightship with Christmas gifts from the people of Ramsgate.

RICKMANSWORTH AND CROXLEY GREEN.—Life-boat film " Boats that Save Life " shown, with collection.

ST. IVES (Hunts).—Annual meeting, the Mayoress presiding. Mrs. Warren appointed president in succession to Mrs. G. G. G.

Wheeler, and Mr. R. C. V. Nichols honorary secretary in place of Mr. S. Shuter. Efforts of the past year : Life-boat day. Amount collected in 1937, £48.

SEAFORD. — Annual meeting, Vice- Admiral A. Kemmis Betty, D.S.O., president, in the chair. Efforts of the past year: Life-boat day, American tea, cinema collection, and golf competition. Amount collected in 1937, £148, an increase of £9 on 1936.

SELSEY.—Whist drive. Visit of the motor life-boat to the Owers Lightship, with Christmas gifts from the people of Selsey, Bognor Regis, and Chichester. Enter- tainment at Bracklesham Bay.

SHERINGHAM.—Annual meeting, Mr.

H. E. S. Upcher, J.P., C.C., president, in the chair. Efforts of the past year : Life- boat day. Amount collected in 1937, £331.

SHOREHAM. — Dance at Southwick, arranged by the Ladies' Committee.

SITTINGBOURNE AND MILTON REGIS.—Whist drive and dance.

SOUTHBOROUGH AND DISTRICT.— Annual meeting, Councillor G. H. Wilson, chairman, presiding. Efforts of the past year : House-to-house collections in South- borough and district. Amount collected in 1937, £65, an increase of £4 on 1936.

TENTERDEN.—Carol singing.

TUNBRIDGE WELLS. — Golf competi- tion. Lecture at Fordcombe Women's Institute.

WALMER.—The station has lost a dis- tinguished former coxswain by the death of Alderman Henry W. Pearson. (See " Obituary.") WALTON AND FRINTON. —Annual meeting, Mr. J. W. Eagle, J.P., chairman, presiding. Efforts of the past year : Life- boat day and Life-boat Sunday. Amount collected in 1937, £263, an increase of £2 on 1936, Visit of the motor life-boat to the Sunk and Kentish" Knock Lightships, and the Gunfleet Lighthouse, with Christmas gifts from the people 6f Walton.

WALTON-ON-THAMES.—Dance.

GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLE- STON.—Annual meeting. Lieut.-Comman- der H. K. Case, D.S.C., R.N.R., chairman, presiding. Efforts of the past year : Life- boat day, badminton and tennis tournaments, and whist drives arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Amount collected in 1937, £254, an increase of £25 on 1936.

Annual meeting of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Mrs. Brett appointed chairman in succession to Mrs. Case, and Miss Bloomfield honorary secretary in succession to Miss Bradshaw.

On Armistice Day, llth November, the motor life-boat put out, and a service in memory of those who lost their lives at sea in the Great War was conducted on board by the Vicar. Afterwards wreaths were cast on the sea.

Lectures were also given at March, to the Braintree Rotary Club, and to the Women's Institutes at Charlwood, Piltdown, Tiptree, Witley, and Warninglid.

Awards won in the life-boat essay com- petition for elementary schools were pre- sented at Bishop's Stortford.

South-West of England.

APPLEDORE.—Annual meeting. Efforts of past year : Life-boat day. Amount col- lected in 1937, £203, an increase of £21 on 1936.

BRIDGWATER.—Annual dance at North Petherton.

BRIDPORT.—Annual meeting, the Mayor presiding. Speaker: The district organizing secretary. Amount collected in 1937, £81.

Address to Chideock Women's Institute.

CAMBORNE.—Whist and bridge drive.

CLOVELLY.—The station has lost a former coxswain by the death of Mr. A.

Braund, who served as an officer of the life- boat for nearly thirty years, retiring in 1932.

Whist drive and dance.

COVERACK.—Annual dinner to life-boat crew.

EXETER.—Whist drive, organized by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

EXMOUTH.—Presentation by Engineer Rear-Admiral R. W. Andrews of the record of thanks awarded by the Institution to Mr. G. Peareey.

FOWEY.—Annual whist drive.

ISLE OF WIGHT.—Annual ball and children's dance at Cowes.

Presentation by Lady Baring of awards by the Institution to members of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild at Cowes.

THE LIZARD.—The branch has suffered a severe loss by the death of Mr. John Hendry, who had been a member of the committee for over forty years.

MINEHEAD.—Annual meeting of branch.

Mr. H. M. Brandram presiding. Amount collected in 1937, £182, an increase of £2 on 1936.

PAIGNTON.—Whist drive, variety enter- tainment and cabaret tea.

PLYMOUTH.—Annual meeting, the Lord Mayor presiding.

Annual meeting of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Speaker : Lieut.-Col. A. D. Burnett Brown, M.C., T.D., deputy secretary of the Institution. Efforts of the past year: Life-boat day, whist and bridge drives, con- cert and entertainment. Amount collected by branch and Guild in 1937, £478.

Annual effort at Bere Ferrers.SALISBURY.—Dance at Verwood, organ- ized by Toe H.

ST. AUSTELL.—Address to the Rotary Club.

SWANAGE.—Annual meeting, Mr. A. S.

Field in the chair. Amount collected in 1937, £141, an increase of £6 on 1936.

TAUNTON.—Bridge battle.

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

Speaker : Rear-Admiral T. P. H. Beamish, C.B., M.P., a member of the committee of management of the Institution. Efforts of the past year : Life-boat day and house-to-house collections in town and district. Amount collected in 1937, £73, an increase of £5 on 1936.

WESTON - SUPER - MARE. — Christmas hampers presented to life-boat crew from Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

WEYMOUTH.—Annual meeting, Major J. H. C. Devenish presiding, supported by the Mayor. Amount collected in 1937, £267.

Scotland.

ABERDEEN.—Annual life-boat ball, at- tended by the Lord and Lady Provost and over 800 guests.

ARBROATH.—Annual meeting on 12th November, Lady Chapel, president of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, in the chair.

Speaker : The Scottish organizing secretary.

Efforts of the past year : Cinema concert and life-boat day. Amount collected in 1937, £166, an increase of £13 on 1936.

ARDISHAIG.—Basket whist drive.

BANFF, MACDUFF, WHITEHILLS AND GARDENSTOWN.—Annual meeting on 23rd November. Efforts of the past year : Life-boat days, house-to-house collection, concert, bridge tournament, dancing display, life-boat cruises, whist drives. Amount collected in 1937, £170, an increase of £29 on 1936.

Annual meeting of Ladies' Guild on 3rd December, Mrs. J. W. More in the chair, after her election as president, supported by Provost Rankine. Speaker : The Scottish organizing secretary.

Whist drive at Whitehills.

BUCKIE.—Presentation at Portknockie by Mr. John L. McNaughton, M.B.E., V.D., honorary secretary of the Buckle branch, of the wrist-watch and money rewards awarded by the Institution to James Mair for his bravery in rescuing a Portknockie fisherman on the 3rd August, 1937.

BURNTISLAND AND ABERDOUR.— Whist drive.

CAMPBELTOWN.—The branch has lost a distinguished former honorary secretary by the death of Mr. J. A. Gardiner. (See " Obituary.") DUNBAR AND SKATERAW. — Pre- sentation of Christmas gifts to the life-boat crews.

DUNDEE.—Annual meeting on 26th January, Mr. Ralph C. Cowper, J.P., presi- dent of the branch, in the chair. Speakers : Miss Florence Horsbrugh, M.P., Mrs. W. T.

Smellie, and the Scottish organizing secretary.

Efforts of the past year: Life-boat day.

Amount collected in 1937, £785.

DUNFERMLINE.—Guy Fawkes dance and cabaret show. Address to the City Business Club by Captain Robert Mends, R.N.

EDINBURGH.—Annual meeting on 1st December, Bailie J. I. Falconer in the chair.

Speakers: Sheriff-Principal C. H. Brown, K.C., Councillor Sir William McKechnie and Admiral Sir John F. E. Green, K.C.M.G., C.B. Annual meeting of Ladies' Life-boat Guild on 1st December, Mrs. Kenneth Mac- Ewan, vice-president, in the chair. Efforts of the past year : Life-boat day, bridge and whist drive, golf tournament, and appeal for subscriptions. Amount collected by branch and Guild in 1937, £2,616, an increase of £269 on 1936.

ELBE.—Whist drive and dance.

FORT WILLIAM.—Special meeting on 19th January, Provost McDonald in the chair, at which a Ladies' Life-boat Guild was formed. Speakers : The Duke of Montrose, C.B., C.V.O., V.D., LL.D., chair- man of the Scottish Life-boat Council and a vice-president of the Institution, Lord Abinger, D.S.O., D.L., and the Scottish organizing secretary. Badges were presented to Guild members by the Lady Herrmone Cameron of Lochiel.

GALASHIELS.—Annual meeting of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild on llth January, the Countess of Haddington, president, in the chair. Efforts of the past year : Daffodil day. Amount collected in 1937, £75, an increase of £20 on 1936.

Lantern lecture by Captain Robert Mends, R.N.

GIRVAN.—Basket whist drive.

GLASGOW.—Lantern lecture by the Rev.

David McQueen, M.A., to Rutherford Church, Dennistoun.

ISLE OF ISLAY.—Dance at Bowmore.

KILMARNOCK.—Collection at football match. Bridge party.

KIRKCALDY.—Annual meeting of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild on 26th November, Sir Robert C. Lockhart, president of the branch, in the chair. Speaker : The Scottish organizing secretary. Efforts of the past year : Life-boat days. Amount collected in 1937, £220, an increase of £1 on 1936.

KIRKCUDBRIGHTSHIRE. — Annual meeting of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild on 1st November, the Countess of Galloway, president, in the chair. Efforts of the past year: Life-boat days, house-to-house col- lections, and appeal for subscriptions.

Amount collected in 1937, £123.

Christmas sale at New Galloway opened by Miss Duncan of Danevale, and organized by the Kells Committee.

Lantern lectures at New Galloway and Balmaclellan by Captain D. J. Munro, C.M.G., R.N.

LERWICK. —Presentation by Sheriff Wallace, chairman, of the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum to Mr. G. T.

Kay, honorary secretary, on his retirement.Mr. Kay already holds the Institution's inscribed binoculars for his part in a gallant attempt to save life from shipwreck when the trawler Ben Doran was wrecked in 1930.

LEVEN. — Annual meeting on 19th November, Mrs. Hutchison, president of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, in the chair.

Speaker : The Scottish organizing secretary.

Efforts of the past year : Whist drive and life-boat day. Amount collected in 1937, £73.

an increase of £2 on 1936.

Military whist drive.

METHIL.—Collection at football match.

MONTROSE.—Annual meeting of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, the Countess of Airlie, president, in the chair. Efforts of the past year : Cinema matinee and life-boat day. Amount collected in 1937, £113.

NEWBURGH.—Children's fancy dress party.

NORTH BERWICK.—The branch has suffered a severe loss by the death of Mr.

W. H. Montgomery, honorary secretary from 1899 to 1934 and honorary treasurer since 1934. He and Mrs. Montgomery were awarded the life-boat picture in 1929.

Clarsach recitals by Miss Lexy Matheson, arranged by Miss Chisholm Blair at Glenhouse.

PERTHSHIRE.—The life-boat film " Boats that Save Life" shown during Christmas season at Dunblane Hotel Hydro, with collections.

PETERHEAD.—Sixth annual dance.

TROON.—Annual meeting on 2nd No- vember, Ex-Provost McAlister, president, in the chair. Efforts of the past year: Whist drive, life-boat day and appeal for sub- scriptions. Amount collected in 1937, £169, an increase of £61 on 1936.

Basket whist drive.

VALE OF LEVEN.—Bridge drive.

WICK.—Annual whist drive.

Lantern lectures at Aberdeen, Airth, Brechin, Dairy, Dundee, Edinburgh, Forfar, Glasgow, Grangemouth, Helensburgh, Inver- allochy and Rathen East, Leith, Longniddry, Motherwell, Nether Lochaber, Newmilns, Newtongrange, Newton Stewart, Paisley, Penicuik, Port Glasgow, Roslin, South Queensferry, Tyndrum, and Windygates.

Ireland.

BANGOR.—Bridge drive.

BELFAST.—Annual life-boat ball.

BRAY.—Annual life-boat dance.

DUBLIN.—Presentation of prize in the life-boat essay competition for elementary schools.

DUN LAOGHAIRE.—Whist drive.

GREYSTONES.—Presentation of prize in the life-boat essay competition for ele- mentary schools.

YOUGHAL.—Whist drive.

Wales.

(Including Herefordshire, Monmouthshire and Shropshire.) ABERAYRON.—Life-boat day.

ABERDOVEY AND TOWYN. — The branch has suffered a severe loss by the death of Captain John Williams, F.R.A.S., F.R.G.S., its honorary secretary and treasurer. (See " Obituary.") ANGLESEY.—Presentation by Commo- dore Sir Richard Williams-Bulkeley, Bt., K.C.B., R.N.R., president of the branch and a vice-president of the Institution, of the gold badge awarded by the Institution to Major R. R. Davies, the honorary secretary of the branch, the bronze medal awarded to Coxswain John Mathews, of Moelfre, for the service to the steamer Lady Windsor on 24th October, 1937, the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum awarded to the motor mechanic, Robert Williams, for the same service, and a wrist-watch awarded to Anthony Jeune for rescuing two women whose boat had capsized off Beaumaris on 5th August, 1937.

BANGOR.—Children's Christmas party organized by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

Weekly social evenings arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

BARRY.—Whist and bridge drive, or- ganized by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

Speaker : The district organizing secretary.

BLAENAU FESTINIOG.—Life-boat day.

CONWAY.—Annual meeting on 8th No- vember, Mrs. Guyse Barker, chairman, presiding. Speaker : The district organizing secretary. Presentation by the Mayor, Alderman A. T. S. Smith, J.P., of the framed records of thanks awarded by the Institution to Mrs. R. M. Lloyd and Sister Scott.

Efforts of the past year : Life-boat day, annual appeal for subscriptions and house- to-house collection. Amount collected in 1937, £123.

FERRYSIDE AND CARMARTHEN BAY.—Annual life-boat dance.

HEREFORD.—Annual meeting on 24th January, Vice-Admiral F. P. Loder Symonds, C.M.G., J.P., chairman, presiding. Speaker : The district organizing secretary. Efforts of the past year : Appeal for annual subscrip- tions, and life-boat day. Amount collected in 1937, £64, an increase of £12 on 1936.

HOLYHEAD.—The station has lost a former coxswain by the death of Mr. Richard Owen. He had been coxswain for twelve years.

LLANDYSSUL.—Life-boat day.

PENARTH. — Annual life-boat dance.

Prizes presented by Mr. Matheson Lang.

Speaker : The district organizing secretary.

WELLINGTON.-—Children's party and annual adult dance.

Lectures at Brecon and Eastham..