THE fishwives of Cullercoats this year collected £163 at the quarterly road exercise and launch of the life-boat.

This is their seventeenth annual col- lection and they have now collected* over £2,423.

Nearly twenty fishwives took part in the collection and they had the help of the 100th Company of the Glasgow Boys' Brigade, which was on holiday at Cullercoats and collected nearly £20.

Mrs. Polly Donkin, now eighty-one years old, again headed the list. She collected over £75, eight • pounds more than last year. The total of her individual collecting is over £805..