THE life-boat Christmas Card and Calendar will have reproduced on them in colour the picture shown above. It depicts a life-boat rescue on the dreaded Goodwin Sands. The paint- ing is one of two presented to the Institution some years ago by Mr.

Frank Garron, of Southend-on-Sea.

It had been in the possession of his family for thirty years, but the artist and the date are not known.

The card will be an eight-page card with the Institution's crest embossed on the outside; and inside, Christmas and New Year greetings. The price will be 4sd. each with envelope. If twenty-five or more are ordered, the name and address can be printed under the greetings. The price with the name and address printed will be 6d.

each for quantities from twenty-five to fifty. If fifty or more are ordered, no charge will be made for printing the name and address.

Owing to the customs duties, it will not be possible to print in names and addresses for the Irish Free State.

As in previous years, the calendar will have the record of lives saved printed on the front and other particulars on the back.

It will be 11| inches long by 9 inches wide, and can be obtained from the Institution in any quantity, post free, Is. each, or 10s. a dozen, this price including an envelope with each calen- dar. It will weigh, in the envelope, just under four ounces, so that it can be sent through the post, with the envelope open, for Id.

Those who wish to order calendars and cards can do so at once. Orders should be sent to the Secretary, Royal National Life-boat Institution, 42, Grosvenor Gardens, London, S.W.I, and postal orders or stamps enclosed..