THE Belfast branch of the Institution had a stand at the Royal Ulster Agricultural Show on 25th-28th May.

Models of pulling and sailing and motor life-boats were shown, photographs of famous coxswains and wrecks, and items in the equipment of a modern life-boat, such as the line- throwing gun, the drogue, an air-case, a searchlight, a signalling lamp, a life- belt, and the switch for cutting off the engine of a self-righting life-boat if she should capsize. Honorary workers of the Belfast branch helped to take charge of the stall and nearly 500 life-boat souvenirs of different sorts were sold.

Life-boat Photographs at Rotherham.

The exhibition of life-boat photo- graphs, which has already been shown during the past three years in London, Edinburgh, Birmingham, York, Brad- ford, Sunderland and Leeds, was shown at the Museum and Art Gallery, Rotherham, Yorkshire, through the kindness of the Corporation, for two months, from 30th April to 29th June, 1938. It was visited by over 10,000 people.

An Exhibition at Cromer.

An exhibition in aid of the Cromer branch was held on May 25th. It was arranged by Mr. H. H. Tansley, whose fine photographs of life-boat work on the East Coast have appeared in The Life-boat. He showed a number of his photographs of rescues by the Cromer life-boats, and films of the life-boats on service and of the naming ceremony of the two new motor life- boats by Sir Samuel Hoare, Bt., M.P., the Home Secretary, in August, 1937. There were also on exhibition models of life-boats lent, among others, by Coxswain Henry Blogg, and Grace Darling's oar lent by Sir Edward Meyerstein. A demon- stration of life-saving by breeches- buoy was given by the Cromer coast- guard. The exhibition was opened by Lord Suffield, president of the branch..