Greater London.

Film premiere attended by H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent at the Odeon Theatre, Leicester Square. (A full account appeared in the last issue of The Life-boat.) BATTERSEA.—The Rev. P. H. Jones, C.B.E., R.N. (ret.), appointed chairman in succession to Mrs. Mills.

BEXLEYHEATH.—Bring-and-buy sale and physical training display, with short address by the district organizing secretary.

BROMLEY.—Address by Mrs. Tucker, honorary secretary, to St. Mark's Church Women's Fellowship.

BURNT OAK, EDGWARE.—Annual meeting on 25th January, County Councillor Mrs. Grey-Skinner, chairman, presiding.

Speaker: the district organizing secretary.

Efforts of the past year: Life-boat day, dances, entertainments. Amount collected in 1938 £210, an increase of £52 on 1937.

CHIPSTEAD.—Mrs. Swallow appointed honorary secretary in succession to Mrs.

Phillips.

CHISLEHURST.—Address by Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution, to the Wives' Fellowship, at Throwleigh, Shep- herd's Green (by kind permission of Mrs.

Leighton, honorary secretary). Entertain- ment at Chislehurst cinema.

CLAPHAM.—Whist drives.

HACKNEY.—Life-boat dance, attended by the Mayor and Mayoress.

HAMMERSMITH.—The branch has suf- fered a severe loss by the death of Mr. J. H.

Derbyshire, a member of the committee who gave valuable services at the branch's annual swimming galas.

ILFORD.—Ladies' Life-boat Guild meet- ing. The Mayoress presented with badge of office as president. Mrs. Elborne, deputy Mayoress, and Mrs. Billington elected vice- presidents. The Mayor's father, Mr. J. G.

Farman was in the service of the Institution for 41 years and on his retirement became honorary secretary of one of its branches.

ROMFORD.— Address to Rotary Club by the district organizing secretary.

ST. ALBANS & DISTRICT.—Life-boat dance.

ST. PANCRAS.-—Lantern lectures by Mr.

C. W. Lawrence, assistant secretary. Mr.

Lawrence has resigned the assistant secretary- ship on receiving an appointment with the London City Mission. Lantern lectures by Mr. Leckie.

SOUTHEND & DISTRICT.—Concert and presentation by Mr. Henry Channon, M.P., to Coxswain Page of the second-service clasp to his bronze medal for gallantry, and of the Institution's thanks recorded on vellum to second coxswain William Deer, bowman H. G. Murrell, and assistant motor mechanic R. Sanders for a service to three barges on 20th November. Dance at Canvey Island.

TWICKENHAM.—The Mayor appointed president. Mrs. Jarvis appointed honorary secretary in succession to Mr. Berkeley Moir, A.R.I.B.A., Mrs. Harris appointed honorary assistant secretary.

WALTHAMSTOW.—Mr. E. J. Collins appointed honorary secretary in succession to Mr. Boxall. Carol singing.

WATFORD.—Life-boat day. Life-boat films shown.

WELLING.—Whist drives.

WOOLWICH.—Special meeting attended by the Mayor, chairman. Address by the district organizing secretary. A committee of 16 members elected representing 12 organizations in the Borough. Address to the Rotary Club by the district organizing secretary.

Lectures at East Ham and Ilford by Mr.

E. G. Kempster. Lectures to the Home Service association of the Wandsworth & District Gas Company at Epsom, Sutton, Wimbledon, Worcester Park and Kingston, and to the Alnwick and District Association.North-West of England.

ACCRINGTON.—Annual meeting on 6th December, the Mayor, president of the branch, in the chair. Speaker: The district organizing secretary. Efforts of the past year: Life-boat day, dance and opera collections. Amount collected in 1938, £176, an increase of £31 on 1937.

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

ADLINGTON.—Whist drive.

APPLEBY.—Bridge and whist drive at the house of Mrs. Baker-Courtenay.

BARROW.—Annual meeting on 23rd November, the Mayor in the chair. Speaker: Lieut.-Col. C. R. Satterthwaite, O.B.E., secretary of the Institution. Efforts of the past year: Life-boat day, dance, whist drives.

Amount collected in 1938, £303, an increase of £61 on 1937.

Annual dance, bridge and whist drives, arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

BLACKBURN.—Annual meeting on 15th November, the Mayoress, president, in the chair. Speaker: The district organizing secretary. Efforts of the past year: Life-boat day. Amount collected in 1938, £145, an increase of £20 on 1937.

BURY.—Benefit performance at Regal Cinema.

CLITHEROE.—Dance.

CROMPTON AND SHAW.—Children's fancy dress dance.

DUKINFIELD.—Annual whist drive and dance. Miss Haigh and Mrs. J. H. Beard appointed joint honorary secretaries in place of Mrs. N. Cooke, now joint honorary trea- surer.

FLEETWOOD.—The branch has suffered a severe loss by the death of Mr. W. Hodgkin- son, one of the oldest members of its com- mittee.

Fifth annual hot pot supper and enter- tainment to the life-boat crew.

FORMBY.—Mr. John Andrew, who has died at the age of 73, was second coxswain for sixteen years and coxswain for nine years, retiring in 1919, when the station was closed.

He "was awarded a pension and a certificate of service.

HINDLEY.—Annual whist drive and dance. Two life-boat film shows by Mr. L.

Gregory at Argyle Street Council school.

HOLLINGWORTH.—Beetle drive and social.

HORWICH.—Annual whist drive and dance.

HYDE.—Address to members of the Gee Cross Circle Methodist Chapel with slides.

KENDAL.—Annual meeting on 6th De- cember, Mrs. G. H. AVhitaker, president, in the chair. Speaker: The district organizing secretary. Efforts of the past year: Life-boat day, bridge and whist drive. Amount col- lected in 1938, £131, an increase of £3 on 1937.

KIRKBY LONSDALE.—Life-boat films, with collections, at Kirkby Lonsdale Cinema.

LANCASTER.—Annual meeting on 24th November, the Mayor in the chair. Speaker: Lieut.-Col. C. R. Satterthwaite, O.B.E., secretary of the Institution. Efforts of the past year: House-to-house collection. Amount collected in 1938, £215.

LEYLAND.—American tea at Worden Hall, by kind permission of Mrs. H. Trevor Wanklyn.

LEIGH.—Address by the district organ- izing secretary to the members of the Round Table Rotary Club.

LIVERPOOL.—Collections on H.M.S.

Liverpool. Presentation by Colonel J. G. B.

Beazley, deputy chairman, of the statuette of a life-boatman awarded by the Institution to Miss F. J. Rishton, president of the Calderstones Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

LYMM AND HEATLEY.—Card evening.

LYTHAM.—Annual meeting of Ladies' Life-boat Guild on 7th November, Mrs. W.

Milligan, honorary secretary, in the chair.

Speaker: The district organizing secretarv.

Amount collected in 1938, £91.

Mrs. S. Watson appointed honorary treasurer.

MANCHESTER, SALFORD AND DISTRICT.—Annual meeting on 24th Novem- ber, the Lord Mayor, president of the branch, in the chair, supported by the Mayor and Mayoress of Salford, the Chairmen of the Ur- ban District Councils for Sale, Knutsford and Denton; Mr. V. R. Kenny, M.B.E., Regional Director General Post Office; Mr. P. M. Oliver, C.B.E., branch honorary secretary; and Mrs.

H. Bayfield, president, Chorlton-cum-Hardy and Manley Park district Life-boat committee.

Speaker: Lieut.-Col. C. R. Satterthwaite, O.B.E., secretary of the Institution. Amount collected in 1938, £2,639.

Annual dinner and social evening, in special celebration of the Grace Darling centenary, at which the coxswain and mem- bers of the Blackpool and Fleetwood life-boat crews were present. Mr. P. M. Oliver, C.B.E., honorary secretary, presided, sup- ported by the Mayor and Mayoress of Salford.

Speakers: Mrs. Henry Bronnert, honorary secretary of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild and president of the Didsbury district Life-boat Guild committee; Councillor Harold Quinney, chairman of the gentlemen's life-boat com- mittee ; and the district organizing secretary.

Prizes were presented by Miss Nellie Wallace and Wee Georgie Wood, the variety artistes.

Cunard White Star Limited Cruise re- union dinner and dance at which the cox- swains and members of the Blackpool, Fleet- wood and New Brighton life-boat crews were present.

AUDENSHAW.—Benefit performance at the Odeon Cinema by kind permission of Odeon Cinemas, Limited.

CHORLTON - CUM - HARDY. — The branch has suffered a severe loss by the death of Mrs. H. Bayfield, president of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

CRUMPSALL.—Annual whist drive.

DENTON.—Annual bring-and-buy sale and whist drive, opened by Miss Ann Penn, the B.B.C. impressionist and mimic.

NEW MOSTON.—Annual dance. Din- ner and dance at which Mr. P. M. Oliver, C.B.E., honorary secretary of the Manches- ter, Salford and District branch, presided, supported by Councillor Hague.

PRESTWICH. — Chrysanthemum and budgerigar show, organized by Mrs. II. W.

Horrocks, honorary secretary of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild committee. The show was opened by Mrs. Wolstenholme, J.P., of Walshaw, and Councillor A.

Naylor, J.P., chairman of the Prestwich Urban District Council presided. The Cycle Queen of Great Britain attended by kind permission of Riding's Stores, Ltd.

SALFORD.—Address by the branch secretary to members of the Windsor Institute.

URMSTON.—Annual dance and whist drive.

WALKDEN, WORSLEY AND DIS- TRICT.—Special meeting on 15th Novem- ber. Mrs. Dixon appointed honorary secretary in succession to Mrs. Higgin- bottom. Annual dance and whist drive.

WHALLEY RANGE.—Whist drive, organized by Mrs. R. Millner, president of the Life-boat Guild committee.

MARYPORT.—Annual social and enter- tainment given by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild to the life-boat crew. Miss F. Gillespie appointed honorary secretary of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild in succession to the late Miss Leighton.

MORECAMBE AND HEYSHAM.—An- nual meeting on 24th November, the Mayor, president of the branch, in the chair. Speaker: Lieut.-CoI. C. R. Satterthwaite, O.B.E., secretary of the Institution. Efforts of the past year: Life-boat day, fishermen's con- certs, dance and beetle drive. Amount collected in 1938, £315, an increase of £74 on 937.

American tea, arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

NORTHWICH.—Special meeting on 16th November, Mrs. Gillbert in the chair.

Speaker: The district organizing secretary.

Ladies' Life-boat Guild formed. Chairman, Mrs. Gillbert: honorary treasurer. Mrs. B. M.

Thornton; honorary secretary, Mrs. L.

Hinton. Treasure hunt and puzzle compe- tition. Address to the members of Weaver- ham Women's Institute.

OLDHAM.—Annual dance.

ORRELL. Annual whist drive.

POYNTON.—Annual meeting on 17th November, Mrs. Cecil Bentham, president of the branch, in the chair. Speaker: The district organizing secretary. Efforts of the past year: Life-boat day, dance and whist drive. Amount collected in 1938, £53, an increase of £10 on 1937.

Mrs. E. Rains elected honorary treasurer in place of Mrs. P. Lees.

RADCLIFFE.—Whist drive.

RAMSBOTTOM.—Annual meeting on 19th December, the chairman of the Ramsbottom Urban District Council presiding. Amount collected in 1938, £88, an increase of £8 on 1937.

ROMILEY.—Annual meeting on 22nd November, Mrs. Kinsey, president, in the chair. Speaker: The district organizing secretary. Efforts of the past year: Life-boat day and military whist drive. Amount collected in 1938, £44, an increase of £2 on 1937.

Whist drive.

RUNCORN.—Special meeting on 16th November at the house of Mrs. N. A. Bos- well, Commander W. L. Rossiter, R.D., R.N.R., presiding. Speaker: The district organizing secretary. Ladies' Life-boat Guild formed. Chairman, Mrs. J. Beck; honorary treasurer, Mrs. McCulloch; joint honorary secretaries, Mrs. C. R. Rooke and Mrs. F. M.

Fraser.

ST. HELENS.—Annual meeting on 2nd December, the Mayor in the chair. Speaker: The district organising secretary. Efforts of the past year: Appeal by the Mayor, exhibition of arts and crafts, whist drive.

Amount collected in 1938, £78, an increase of £67 on 1937.

SANDBACH.—Annual meeting on 9th November. Speaker: The district organizing secretary. Efforts of the past year: Life-boat day. Amount collected in 1938, £32.

SOUTHPORT.—Annual meeting on 8th December, the Mayor in the chair. Speaker: The district organizing secretary. Efforts of the past year: Life-boat day, bridge and whist drives, bring-and-buy morning coffee sale. Amount collected in 1938, £259.

Mrs. F. Whittaker appointed chairman in the place of Mrs. G. H. Hibbott.

Bring-and-buy morning coffee sale, organ- ized by Mrs. Claff.

STOCKPORT.—Annual whist drive and dance.

TOTTINGTON.—Jumble sale.

WALLASEY.—Annual meeting on 3rd November, Mrs. John Williams, chairman, presiding in the absence of the Mayor.

Speaker: Mr. W. W. Harris, J.P., vice- chairman and honorary secretary of the New Brighton committee, and honorary secretary of the Port of Liverpool branch.

Whist drive and dance.

WARRINGTON. — Annual meeting on 30th November, the Mayor, president, in the chair. Speaker: The district organizing secretary. Efforts of the past year: Life-boat day, bring-and-buy sale. Amount collected in 1938, £206.

WESTHOUGHTON.—Annual meeting on 30th November, Councillor W. Lowe, chair- man of the branch, presiding. Efforts of the past year: Life-boat day, whist drive. Amount collected in 1938, £25, an increase of £2 on 1937.

Whist drive.WIGAN AND STANDISH.—Annual meeting on 7th December, the Mayor in the chair. Speaker: The district organizing secretary. Efforts of the past year: House- to-house collection, bridge and whist drive.

Amount collected in 1938, £174, an increase of £32 on 1937.

WORKINGTON.—Annual dances.

North-East of England.

ALNMOUTH AND BOULMER.—Annual meeting of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

BEDLINGTON.—Whist drive.

BERWICK-ON-TWEED.—Annual meet- ing on 23rd November, the Mayor presiding.

Efforts of the past year: Life-boat day.

Amount collected in 1938, £127.

Dance and whist drive at Spittal.

BLYTH.—Annual meeting of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Amount collected in 1938, £16.

Whist drive and dance.

BRIDLINGTON.—Bridge and whist drive.

CONISBOROUGH.—Bridge drive.

DARLINGTON.—The branch has suffered a severe loss by the death of Alderman George R. Young, who was its honorary secretary from 1911 to 1933, and from 1933 until his death, its chairman. He was awarded the life-boat picture in 1921, and in 1934, the gold badge which is only given for distinguished honorary services.

Bridge and whist drives.

DONCASTER AND DISTRICT.—Dance at Bentley.

FILEY.—Annual meeting on 2nd Decem- ber, Mr. R. M. Robson presiding. Efforts of the past year: Life-boat day, whist drive and dance. Amount collected in 1938, £243, an increase of £57 on 1937.

GATESHEAD.—Bridge drives.

HALIFAX.—Annual meeting on 27th January, the Mayor presiding. Efforts of the past year: Life-boat day, whist drive and dance. Amount collected in 1938, £307.

HARROGATE.—Annual meeting of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Amount collected in 1938, £179.

HAUXLEY AND AMBLE.—Bridge and whist drive.

HECKMONDWIKE.—Bridge and whist drive.

HOLMFIRTH.—Whist drive'and dance.

HUDDERSFIELD.—Annual meeting of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild on 2nd December.

Amount collected in 1938, £272, an increase of £9 on 1937.

KEIGHLEY.—Bring-and-buy sale.

KIRKBURTON.—Bridge drive and dance.

LEEDS.—Collection at thQ Empire.

Dance. Bring-and-buy sale. Whist drive and dance at Headingley.

MARKET WEIGHTON.—Whist drive.

MEXBOROUGII.—Bridge drive.

NEWCASTLE - UPON - TYNE.—Bridge drive.

NORTH SUNDERLAND.—The station has suffered a severe loss by the death of Mr. M. R. Norris who had been its honorary secretary for 10 years. Both his father and grandfather served in the life-boat, and his family had been associated with the station for 70 years.

NORTHUMBERLAND.—County life-boat ball.

REDCAR.—The station has suffered a severe loss by the death of Captain J. T.

Shaw. He had been the honorary secretary for 19 years and in 1931 was awarded in- scribed binoculars by the Institution.

ROTHERHAM.—Life-boat ball.

SCARBOROUGH.—Whist and bridge drive.

SEAHAM.—Young people's dance.

SELBY.—Annual meeting of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Amount collected in 1938, £58.

Bridge drive.

SOWERBY BRIDGE.—Whist drive and dance.

SPENBOROUGH.—Bridge and whist drive.

STAMFORDHAM.—Concert.

SUNDERLAND.—Mr. James M. Brown who has died at the age of 76, was second- coxswain for 13 years and coxswain for 10 years. He letiied in 1916, and was awarded a pension and a certificate of service.

Dance. Christmas party.

TYNEMOUTH.—Annual meeting of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Amount collected in 1938, £14.

WAKEFIELD.—Military whist drive.

WEST HARTLEPOOL.—Annual meeting of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Amount collected in 1938, £117.

Whist and bridge drive.

WOOLER.—Annual meeting of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Amount collected in 1938, £5.

YORK.—Address by district organizing secretary to conservative club and York Round Table.

Midlands.

BELPER.—Life-boat film "Story of the Life-boat" shown.

BIRMINGHAM.—Collections at the Alex- andra, Royal, and Empire theatres, at Bingley Hall Circus, at the Birmingham Ice Rink and at the West Bromwich Albion football ground. Concert arranged by Mr. S.

Poynton, West Bromwich, attended by the Mayor. Life-boat balls in Botanical gardens, Edgbaston. Addresses to the Young People's Society, Smethwick; St. Andrews Women's Unionists and the Unionists of St. George's Institute, Edgbaston,BRISTOL.—Life-boat ball. Lantern lec- ture by Mr. G. F. Igglesden, honorary treasurer, to British Legion.

CLEETHORPES.—Christmas fair and sherry party by kind permission of Mrs.

Locking at the Cliff hotel.

KENILWORTH.—Whist drive.

MATLOCK.—Ex-Inspector Joseph Ken- nedy appointed honorary secretary. Address by the district organizing secretary to the Rotary Club.

NORTHAMPTON.—Annual meeting, Mr.

C. E. D. Archer, chairman, presiding in the absence of the president, Councillor W. H.

Percival, supported by Mrs. Harvey Reeves, vice-president, and Mr. C. Mobbs, vice- chairman. Amount collected in 1938, £198.

NOTTINGHAM.—Annual meeting. Lieut.- Commander G. J. Mackness, D.C.S., R.N., chairman, presiding in the absence of the Duke of Portland, K.G., P.C., G.C.V.O., patron, supported by the Lord Mayor, president, and the Lady Mayoress. Speaker: The district organizing secretary.

Life-boat ball.

OLDBURY.—Annual meeting, Mrs. M. R.

Growcott, J.P., chairman, presiding. Amount collected in 1938, £44.

RUGELEY.—Life-boat ball.

STOKE-ON-TRENT AND NEWCASTLE- UNDER-LYME.—Collections at the Theatre Royal, Hanley and at the Port Vale football ground. Whist drive, organized by the Newcastle Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

WARWICK.—Life-boat day.

WOLVERHAMPTON.—Life-boat ball.

Address by the district organizing secretary.

Lectures at Bromsgrove and Daventry.

South-East of England.

ALDEBURGH.—Presentation by the Mayor of the certificate of service awarded by the Institution to Coxswain J. Pead on his retirement.

ATTLEBOROUGH.—Life - boat day.

Life-boat film " The Story of the Life-boat" shown.

BEXHILL.—Annual meeting, Rear- Admiral C. A. M. Sarel, O.B.E., R.N., chairman, presiding. Efforts of the past year: Cinema collection and golf competition.

Amount collected in 1938, £139, an increase of £36 on 1937.

BLETCHLEY.— Whist drives.

BOGNOR REGIS.—Carol singing.

BURNHAM (BUCKS).—Branch formed.

Honorary secretary, Mrs. Richardson.

BYFLEET AND PYRFORD.—Dance.

CANTERBURY.—The branch has suffered a severe loss through the deaths of the chairman, Surg.-Captain K. H. Jones, R.N., M.B.. F.Z.S., and Sir Reginald T. Tower, K.C.M.G., C.V.O., a member of the committee.

CHATTERIS.—Life-boat day.

CHELMSFORD.—Christmas whist drive.

CHICHESTEK.—Life-boat film " The Story of the Life-boat" shown, with collect- ions.

CHORLEY WOOD.—Bridge party. Carol singing.

CLACTON.—Annual meeting of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild; Mrs. F. M. H.

Coleman, J.P., president, in the chair.

Speaker: Captain E. S. Carver, R.D., R.N.R., the Institution's superintendent of stores.

Efforts of the past year: Life-boat day, whist drive, and church collections. Amount collected in 1938, £144.

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

The thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum, awarded to Coxswain Charles Ellis for the rescue of seven German yachtsmen last June, presented to him by Lieut.- Commander P. E. Vaux, D.S.C., R.N., chief inspector of life-boats, at a dinner given by the Royal Ocean Racing Club.

CLAYGATE.—Carol singing.

CROMER.—Annual meeting, Lieut.-CoI.

F. A. G. Noel, chairman, presiding. Efforts of the past year: Life-boat day, life-boat cup competition, exhibition. Amount col- lected in 1938, £573.

Cinema collection.

DORKING.—Bridge and whist drives.

EASTBOURNE.—Annual meeting, Mr, Ernest Armstrong, chairman of the branch and a member of the committee of manage- ment of the Institution, presiding. Speaker: Lieut.-Col. C. R. Satterthwaite, O.B.E., secretary of the Institution. Efforts of the past year: Life-boat days in Eastbourne and district, and other collections arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Amount collected in 1938, £1,524. Certificates of service awarded by the Institution to two members of the crew, and records of thanks awarded to four honorary workers, presented by Lieut.-Col. Satterthwaite.

EPPING.—Whist drives at Epping and Theydon. Dance.

ESHER.—The branch has suffered a severe loss by the death of the honorary secretary, Mrs. Chapman.

FOLKESTONE. -Series of bridge parties.

FOREST ROW.—Branch formed. Hon- orary secretary, Miss I. Young.

GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLES- TON.—Annual meeting, Lieut.-Commander H. K. Case, D.S.C., R.N.R., chairman, pre- siding. Efforts of the past year: Life-boat day, badminton and tennis tournaments, a whist drive, and a golf competition, arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

Amount collected in 1938, £285, an increase of £31 on 1937.

On Armistice Day, llth November, the motor life-boat put out, and a service i nmemory 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.

Informal visit to the life-boat station of Sir John Simon, G.C.S.I., K.C.V.O., P.C., M.P., Chancellor of the Exchequer. Whist drive at Filby. Dance arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Part proceeds of collection at annual fisherman's church service. Lantern lectures to schools by Lieut.-Commander Case.

HASBOROUGH AND DISTRICT.— Whist drive and dance at Bacton. Christ- mas party at Wroxham, in conjunction with the Norwich Mutual Service Club, including a whist drive and show of life-boat films.

HASTINGS AND ST. LEONARDS.— Annual meeting, Commander John Bray, V.D., R.N.V.R., chairman, presiding.

Speaker: Mr. H. S. H. Burdett-Coutts, a member of the committee of management of the Institution. Efforts of the past year: Life-boat days at Hastings and Battle, blessing-of-the-sea service, life-boat Sunday, church collection, cinema and theatre collec- tions. Amount collected in 1938, £625.

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

HYTHE AND DYMCHIJRCH.—Series of lantern lectures by Mr. Clayton Rickard, the honorary secretary, at which the life-boat film " Boats that Save Life" was shown.

IPSWICH.—Carol singing.

KESSINGLAND.—Whist drive and dance.

KNEBWORTH.—Branch formed. Hon- orary secretary, Mrs. Philip Kerr.

LITTLEHAMPTON. — Annual life-boat ball.

LOWESTOFT.—Annual meeting, Mr. F.

Spashett, J.P., chairman, presiding. Efforts of the past year: Life-boat day. Amount collected in 1938, £224, an increase of £12 on 1937.

Dance.

MARGATE AND HERNE BAY.— 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 Christmas gifts from the people of Herne Bay.

RAMSGATE. — Life-boat films "Boats that Save Life " and " Heroes of the Sea " shown to school children. Visit of the motor life-boat to the Brake lightship with Christ- mas gifts from the people of Ramsgate.

RYE AND WINCHELSEA.—A memorial service was held in Rye Harbour church for the seventeen life-boat men who lost their lives ten years ago on 15th November, 1928.

Lecture at Icklesham Women's Institute.

ST. IVES (HUNTS).—-The branch has suffered a severe loss through the death of Mrs. G. G. G. Wheeler, for many years president of the branch, and a holder of the Institution's gold badge.

SELSEY.—Visit of the motor life-boat to the Owers lightship with Christmas gifts from the people of Bognor Regis, Chichester, and Selsey.

SHERINGHAM.—Annual meeting, Mr.

H. E. S. Upcher, J.P., C.C., president, in the chair. Efforts of the past year: Life-boat day and exhibition. Amount collected in 1938, £263.

SHOREHAM HARBOUR.—Dance at Southwick.

SITTINGBOURNE AND MILTON REGIS.—Whist drive and dance.

SUDBURY.—The branch has suffered a severe loss through the death of the honorary treasurer, Sir George Whitehouse, K.C.B., J.P.

TOLLESBURY.—House-to-house collec- tion.

TUNBRIDGE WELLS.—" Ideal Sale." Lectures at Groombridge Women's Institute by Captain Basil Hall, R.N., and at Rusthall Women's Institute by Miss Dorothy Davies, chairman of the branch.

Competition at Nevill golf club.

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 1938, £210.

The motor life-boat took out Christmas gifts to the Sark and Kentish Knock light- vessels from the people of Walton-on-Naze and district.

WELLS-ON-SEA.—Whist drive and dance.

Life-boat film " The Story of the life-boat" shown.

WORTHING.—Mr. William Blann, who has died at the age of 78, was second-coxswain for 22 years and coxswain for 10 years, retiring in 1930 when the station was closed. He was awarded a pension and a certificate of service.

Since then he had been the caretaker of the boat-house which was still left open to visitors although the station had been closed.

Lectures were also given to the Chobham Unionist Association, the Horley Towns- women's Guild, and to the Women's Instit- utes at Althorne, Buxted, Flimwell, Graffham, Hollingbourne, Leaden, Roding and Warfield.

Awards won in the life-boat essay competit- ion for elementary schools were presented at Aylesbury.

South'West of England.

APPLEDORE.—Annual meeting, Captain The Hon. Denys Scott, president of the branch, in the chair. Amount collected in 1938, £289, an increase of £86 on 1937.

BATH.—Carol singing. Lantern lecture by Mr. G. E. Farr of the Bristol Shiplovers' Society, to St. Luke's Literary Society.

BOURNEMOUTH.—Mr. S. J. Rees, J.P., F.R.G.S., vice-president of the branch, has been elected a Freeman of the borough of Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire.BUDE.—Annual meeting, Captain A. B.

Barrow, R.N., in the chair. Amount collect- ed in 1938, £146, an increase of £25 on 1937.

CAMBORNE.—Annual house - to - house collection. Jumble sale. Sacred concerts at the Scala theatre.

CREDITON.—Bridge drive.

EXETER.—Three performances of "The Two Mrs. Carrolls " by Mrs. Gamble and her company, arranged by The Viscountess Sidmouth.

FALMOUTH.—Annual meeting. Amount •collected in 1938, £150.

Whist drive, organized by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Prizes presented by Mr.

J. Snell, coxswain of the Falmouth life-boat.

FARNBOROUGH.—House - to - house collection.

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

GOSPORT.—Annual meeting, Colonel R.

F. A. Sloane-Stanley, J.P., president of the branch, and a member of the committee of management, in the chair. Amount collected in 1938, £129, an increase of £24 on 1937.

ISLE-OF-WIGHT :— COWES.—American tea. Annual ball and children's dance, organized by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

NEWPORT.—Address by Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution, to the Townswomen's Guild.

RYDE.—Presentation of prize won in the life-boat essay competition for element- ary schools, by Alderman A. Andrews, vice-chairman of the Isle-of-Wight Edu- cation Committee.

LIZARD.—Presentation of certificates of service awarded by the Institution to Lizard and Cadgwith life-boat men.

LYNTON AND LYNMOUTH.—Annual meeting, Mr. H. F. Saltmarsh, president, in the chair. Amount collected in 1938, £124, an increase of £4 on 1937.

MINEHEAD.—Annual meeting, Lieut.

H. M. Brandram, R.N.R., chairman of the branch, presiding. Amount collected in 1938, £188, an increase of £6 on 1937.

OXFORD.—Annual meeting, the Mayor, president, in the chair. Speaker: Lieut.-Col.

C. R. Satterthwaite, O.B.E., secretary of the Institution. Efforts of past year: House-to- house collection, life-boat day. Amount collected in 1938, £635.

Presentation of awards by the Institution to honorary workers.

PAIGNTON.—Whist drives and bridge drive, organized by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

PLYMOUTH.—Annual meeting, the Lord Mayor presiding. Amount collected in 1938, £447.

Dinner-dance, organized by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Collection at Plymouth Argyll Football Ground. Social at Bere Ferrers.

Mr. John H. Liscock, who died last year at the age of 91, was second-coxswain for 15 years and coxswain for 17 years, retiring in 1901, with a pension and certificate of service.

REDRUTH.—Jumble sale.

SALISBURY.—Special Sunday concert at the Regal Theatre, by the massed Royal Marine Bands of the Portsmouth Naval Command, and the Portsmouth Royal Naval Singers. Speaker: Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution.

SEATON.—-Lantern lecture to Ryall's Court school, by the Rev. W. Robins, honorary secretary.

SOUTHAMPTON.—Whist drive, organ- ized by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

SWANAGE.—Lantern lectures by Mr.

E. L. Millward, honorary assistant secretary.

WATCHET.—Annual meeting, Mr. H. K.

Hole, chairman, presiding. Amount col- lected in 1938, £103, an increase of £9 on 1937.

WESTON - SUPER - MARE.—Christmas vouchers presented to life-boat crew by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. The life-boat took out Christmas gifts to the English and Welsh Grounds lightship.

WEYMOUTH.—Annual meeting, Major J. H. C. Devenish, president and chairman of the branch, presiding. Amount collected in 1938, £319, an increase of £52 on 1937.

Presentations of record of thanks awarded by the Institution to Captain A. C. Denman, former branch honorary treasurer, and framed photograph from the life-boat crew to Mr.

Butt, former acting honorary secretary.

Officials of the branch and crew entertained to dinner by Major Devenish.

The life-boat took out 200 Christmas parcels to the men on Shambles lightship.

Lectures to Norwich House School, King- ham, Oxon, and Bedales School, Petersfield.

Scotland.

ABERDEEN.—Annual life-boat ball, attended by the Lord and Lady Provost and over 900 guests.

ARBROATH.—Annual meeting of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, Lady Chapel, in the chair. Speaker: The district assistant sec- retary. Efforts of the past year: Life-boat day and Sunday concert.

ARDRISHAIG.—Visit of the Tobermory motor life-boat.

AYR.—Mr. John Morrison, who has died at the age of 67, was second-coxswain for over 6 years and coxswain for 25 years, retiring in 1932 when the station was closed.

He was awarded a pension and a certificate of service.

AYTON AND BURNMOUTH.—Military whist drive, with address by the district assistant secretary. Dance at Burnmouth.

BANFF, MACDUFF, WHITEHILLS AND GARDENSTOWN.—Annual meeting, ex-Provost James Christie, chairman, pre- siding. Efforts of the past year: Life-boatdays life-boat cruises, dancing displays, whist drives. Amount collectedin 1938, £165.

Whist drives at Banff and Macduff, arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

BUCKIE.—Variety concert, organized by the Townswomen's Guild and Mr. A. W.

Thomson. Address by Mr. James Archibald, Lord Lieutenant of the County and president of the branch.

DUMBARTON.—Bridge and whist drive.

DUNBAR.—Whist drive at Innerwick, arranged by the Women's Rural Institute.

Presentation by Mr. T. Wilson Fish, chairman of the branch, of Christmas gifts to the crews of Dunbar and Skateraw life-boats.

DUNDEE.—Concert arranged by Dundee Invalid and Cripple Children's Dramatic Society.

DUNOON.—Annual meeting on 13th December, Mrs. McArthur Moir, president of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild in the chair.

Speaker: The district assistant secretary.

Efforts of the past year: Life-boat balls and life-boat day. Amount collected in 1938, £174, an increase of £34 on 1937.

Concert at Innellan, Sir Norman Lament, Bt., of Knockdow, presiding.

EDINBURGH.—Address by the Scottish organizing secretary to St. Paul's Church Mothers' Union, Mrs. R. H. Maconochie, a vice-president of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, in the chair. Lantern lectures.

EYEMOUTH.—Annual meeting on 26th October, Sir Christopher Furness, Bt., pre- sident of the branch, in the chair. Efforts of the past year: Life-boat day. Amount collected in 1938, £38.

FORT WILLIAM.—Annual meeting on 16th December, The Lady Hermoine Cameron of Lochiel, president of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, in the chair. Efforts of the past year: Life-boat days and evening party.

Amount collected in 1938, £79, an increase of £59 on 1937.

GALASHIELS.—Annual meeting on 12th January, the Countess of Haddington, president of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, in the chair. Speaker: The district assistant secretary. Efforts of the past year: Daffodil day and appeal for subscriptions. Amount collected in 1938, £90, an increase of £15 on 1937.

GIRVAN.—Annual meeting of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, Mrs. J. Blair, president, in the chair. Efforts of the past year: Whist drive and dance and life-boat day.

Special meeting at which ex-Provost J.

McCrindle, chairman of the branch, presented to Coxswain James McCartney the certificate of service awarded to him by the Institution.

Speakers: Commander J. M. Upton, R.D., R.N.R., district inspector of life-boats, and Mr. J. Brewster, honorary treasurer of the branch.

Special meeting, ex-Provost J. McCrindle chairman of the branch, presiding. The Marquess of Ailsa, president of the branch, presented to Second-Coxswain Ingram the certificate of service awarded to him by the Institution.

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

GLASGOW.—Lantern lecture by the Rev.

David McQueen, M.A., to the Young People's Association of Govan Congregational Church.

Lantern lectures.

GREENOCK.—Annual meeting on 17th November, Mr. S. M. Turnbull, presiding.

Speakers: Mr. J. D. Shannon, Mr. D. M.

Ferguson, Mr. Colquhoun, Mr. A. R. Stewart and the Scottish organizing secretary.

Efforts of the past year: Life-boat day and lantern lecture. Amount collected in 1938, £167.

Performance of the life-boat play " Their Business in Great Waters" by the Union Street Church Dramatic Club.

IRVINE.—Mr. Alexander Sinclair who has died at the age of 82, was bowman of the Irvine life-boat for nearly 7 years, and coxswain for 16 years, retiring in 1914, when the station was closed. He was awarded a certificate of service and a special pension.

At one time the life-boat crew was almost entirely qomposed of Sinclairs.

ISLE OF BUTE.—Annual whist drive and dance. The Marchioness of Bute, D.B.E., president of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, in the chair. The Duke and Duchess of Montrose were present and the prizes were presented by the Duchess.

ISLE OF ISLAY.—Dance at Bowmore, arranged by Mrs. Fisher.

KIRKCUDBRIGHTSHIRE. — Annual meeting on 7th December, Sir Charles Hope- Dunbar, Bt., of St. Mary's Isle, president, in the chair. This meeting was preceded by the annual meeting of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, the Countess of Galloway, president in the chair. Efforts of the past year: Life-boat days, house-to-house collection, concert, sale, cabaret dance, whist drive, boat card collections and lantern lectures.

Amount collected in 1938, £201, an increase of £33 on 1937.

LANARK.—Life-boat day.

LOSSIEMOUTH.—Whist and bridge drive and dance.

MONTROSE.—Cinema matinee, organized by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, Mrs.

Macpherson Grant of Craigo, presiding.

Speakers: The Countess of Airlie and Mrs.

Forsyth-Grant of Ecclesgreig.

NAIRN.—Annual meeting on 16th Novem- ber, Commander A. R. Chalmer, R.N., chairman, presiding. Efforts of the past year: Life-boat day and appeal for sub- scriptions. Amount collected in 1938, £50.

PAISLEY.—Annual life-boat service in Paisley Abbey conducted by the Rev. W. J.

Baxter, M.A., of Dowanhill Church, Glasgow.

PETERHEAD.—Annual dance.

RENFREW.—Annual meeting on 7th December, Miss Lobnitz of Ross Hall, vice- president of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, in the chair. Speaker: The district assistantsecretary. Efforts of the past year: Appeal for subscriptions. Amount collected in 1938, £35.

TROON.—Annual meeting on 3rd Novem- ber, ex-Provost McAlister, president of the branch, in the chair. Efforts of the past year: Whist drive, joint church service, life-boat day and appeal for subscriptions.

Amount collected in 1938, £157.

Whist drive.

Lectures at Johnstone, Tillicoultry, and Uddingston.

Wales.

(Including Herefordshire, Monmouthshire and Shropshire.) ABERGAVENNY.—A special meeting to re-organize the branch, the Mayor presiding.

Speaker: The district organizing secretary.

Miss G. Savegar appointed honorary secre- tary.

BANGOR.—Ladies' Life-boat Guild din- ner. Guest of honour, the Lady Penrhyn.

Speaker: The district organizing secretary.

BARRY.—Bridge and whist drive organ- ized by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Prizes presented by Mrs. Richard Read.

CAERNARVON.—Special meeting, the Deputy Mayor presiding, to form a branch.

Speaker: Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution.

CONWA Y.—Annual meeting of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild on 10th November, Mrs.

Guyse Barker, the chairman, presiding.

Speakers: The Mayor and the district organizing secretary. Efforts of the past year: Appeal for annual subscriptions and life-boat day. Amount collected in 1938, £129, an increase of £7 on 1937.

Mrs. J. McGachen appointed joint honorary secretary.

HEREFORD.—Annual meeting on 31st 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, house-to-house collections, whist drive, jumble sale. Amount collected in 1938, £43.

LLANDYSSUL.—Life-boat day.

MARKET DRAYTON.—Miss M. W.

Jones appointed honorary secretary.

NEATH.—Bridge and whist drive.

NEWPORT, MON.—Annual life-boat ball, organized by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

PENARTH.—Annual life-boat ball, organ- ized by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

PONTYPOOL.—Special meeting to re- organize the branch, Mr. H. H. Pratt, J.P., presiding. Speaker: The district organizing secretary. Mrs. Llewellyn Hughes ap- pointed honorary secretary.

WREXHAM.—Special meeting, the Mayor presiding, to reform the branch. Speaker: Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution. Mrs. Arthur Davies appointed honorary secretary.

Ireland.

BANGOR.—Bridge drive.

BELFAST.—Life-boat ball.

CORK.—Annual life-boat dance. Golf competition. Presentation of prize in the life-boat essay competition for elementary schools.

DUBLIN.—Carol singing. Presentation of prizes in the life-boat essay competition for elementary schools.

DUN LAOGHAIRE.—Presentation from Irish station branches to Commander J. M.

Upton, R.D., R.N.R., district inspector of life-boats, on his transfer from Ireland to the east coast of England, by Mr. J. P.

Dooge, P.C., chairman of Dun Laoghaire Borough Council. Representatives from many branches attended and the speakers included the chairman and the honorary secretaries of Dun Laoghaire, Howth, Wex- ford, and Wicklow.

LIMERICK.—Presentation by the Mayor of Limerick of the wrist watch awarded by the Institution to Master Thomas Long for his gallantry in rescuing a drowning man on 14th June, 1938. Speakers: Mr. C. Downey, honorary secretary of the Limerick branch and the district organizing secretary. Golf competition.

PORTAFERRY.—Carol singing, organized by Miss Peggy McCleery..