Central and Outer London.

BEXLEY HEATH.—Rummage sale, whist drive, and dance, attended by the Mayor and Mayoress, all arranged by the Ladies' Lifeboat Guild. The Guild has adopted the lifeboat crew at the Dungeness station and is supplying it with woollen comforts.

BURNT OAK AND EDGWARE.—Lecture to Townswomen's Guild by Captain Basil Hall, R.N.

CHELSEA.—Lantern lecture by Mr.

Kibble.

CLAPHAM.—Whist drives.

EAST SHEEN.—Whist drive.

EDMONTON.—Whist drive.

HOUNSLOW, HESTON AND ISLEWORTH.

—Whist drive at Cranford.

ST. ALBANS.—Whist and bridge drive.

SOUTHEND-ON-SEA.—The branch has suffered a severe loss by the death of its secretary, Mr. J. L. Elliston. He had been working for it for thirteen years. Mr.

Elliston won many prizes as a yachtsman.

SOUTHWARK.—"Boats that save Life" film shown.

WATFORD.—Branch reorganized. The Rt. Hon. Sir Dennis Herbert, P.C., K.B.E., D.L., J.P., M.P., president; Mr. M. Butler, F.C.I.I., vice-president; Mrs. Tupman, chairman, Mrs. Heady, honorary secretary, Mr J. Thompson, honorary treasurer.

Life-boat day. Lantern lecture by Mr.

Butler.

WOOLWICH.—First annual meeting on 22nd January. Efforts of the past year: Life-boat day, dance. Amount collected in 1939, £95.

North-West of England.

ACCRINGTON.—Annual dance, organized by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

BARROW-IN-FURNESS.—Bridge and whist drive organized by Mrs. Garland and Mrs. White. Whist drive organized by Mrs.

Hammond, Mrs. Perrigo and Mrs. Benson.

Whist drive arranged by the Ladies' Lifeboat Guild. Jumble Sale organized by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Two competitions arranged by Mrs. Kelly.

Collection at match of the Barrow Association Football Club. Donation from the Barrow British Legion.

BREDBURY.—Whist drive.

BRINDLE.—Whist drive and dance.

COCKERMOUTH.—The branch has suffered a severe loss by the death of its president, Lady Lawson.

CROMPTON AND SHAW.—'' Help the life-boats " tea.

DUKINFIELD.—Annual whist drive.

FARNWORTH.—Dance.

GOLBORNE.—Special effort.

HINDLEY.—Whist drive.

KIRKBY LONSDALE.—The branch has suffered a severe loss by the death of its president. Lady Henry Bentinck.

LYMM AND HEATLEY.—Annual Christmas effort.

MANCHESTER, SALFORD AND DISTRICT.—Annual meeting on 12th December, the Lord Mayor president, in the chair, supported by the Mayor of Salford, the Mayor of Stretford, the Mayor of Prestwich, Councillor W. Johnston, J.P., Mr.

P. M. Oliver, C.B.E., honorary secretary, Mrs. P. T. Eckersley, Mrs. Henry Bronnert, honorary secretaiy of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild and president of the committee of the Didsbury Life-boat Guild, and the district organizing secretary. Speaker: Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution.

Amount collected in 1939, £2,682, an increase of £43 on 1938. Councillor William Johnston, J.P., appointed honorary treasurer in succession to the late Alderman Sir William Davy, J.P.

Bring-and-buy sale.

CRUMPSALL.—Whist drive.

DENTON.—Bridge and whist drive.

PRESTWICH.—Annual meeting on 2nd November. Parcel sale. Bring-and-buy sale at the house of Miss F. Robinson.

SALE, ASHTON-ON-MERSEY AND BROOKLANDS.—Dance.

WHITWORTH PARK AND CHORLTON - ON - MEDLOCK. — Bring-and-buy sale, organized by Miss A. Robinson, president.

NORTHVVICH.—Whist drive, at the house of the honorary secretary.

OLDHAM.—Whist and bridge drive, arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

ORRELL.—Annual whist drive.

PORT ST. MARY.—Annual meeting on 6th November, Mr. F. W. Lawson, J.P., president, in the chair. Amount collected in 1939, £140.

RAMSEY.—Annual meeting on 17th November, the Rev. M. W. Harrison, M.A., chairman, presiding. Amount collected in 1939, £124.

ROMILEY.—Whist drive.

SOUTHPORT.—Annual dance.

STOCKPORT.—The branch has suffered a severe loss by the death of Mr. R. J. Bailey, who was its honorary treasurer for forty years. He was awarded the gold badge in 1926.

TOTTINGTON.—Whist and bridge drives at the house of Mrs. H. Barnieot, president.

WIGAN.—Annual meeting on 7th December, the Mayor, president, in the chair.

Efforts of the past year: Life-boat day, bridge drive, bridge and whist drive.

Amount collected in 1939, £207, an increase of £33 on 1938.

WORKINGTON.—Annual dance.

North-East of England.

ALTOFTS.—Whist drive.

BEDLINGTON.—Whist drive.

BERWICK.—Annual meeting on 30th November. Efforts of the past year: Lifeboat day, dance. Amount collected in 1939, £140, an increase of £13 on 1938.

Cinema collection.

BRIDLINGTON.—Luncheonette drive.

CONSETT.—Bridge drives.

bridge CULLERCOATS.—Annual meeting on 10th November. Amount collected in 1939, £196.

DARLINGTON.—Bridge and whist drives.

Concert.

GATESHEAD.—Bridge drive.

HALIFAX.—Annual meeting on 24th November, the Mayoress presiding. Efforts of the past year: Life-boat day, bridge drives and dance. Amount collected in 1939, £274.

HARROGATE.—Annual meeting on 22nd January, the Mayoress, president of the Guild, in the chair. Efforts of the past year: Lifeboat day, dancing display, bridge drives and dance. Amount collected in 1939, £275, an increase of £96 on 1938.

HICKLETON.—House-to-house collection.

HOLMFIRTH.—Whist drive and dance.

HUDDERSFIELD.—Annual meeting on 8th December, the Mayor, president of the branch, in the chair. Efforts of the past year: Life-boat day, bring-and-buy sale.

Amount collected in 1939, £197.

KIRKBURTON.—Dance.

LEEDS.—Dance.

NEWCASTLE.—Bridge drive.

NORMANTON.—Whist and bridge drives.

SCARBOROUGH.—Bridge drives.

SEAHAM.—Children's party. Dance.

SELBY.—Bridge and whist drives.

SLEIGHTS.—House-to-house collection.

SPENBOROUGH.—Bridge and whist drives.

STJNDERLAND.—Bring - and - buy sale.

Whist drive.

TYNEMOUTH.—Annual meeting on 13th February. Efforts of the past year: Lifeboat day, whist drive. Amount collected in 1939, £146, an increase of £48 on 1938.

WAKEFIELD.—Bridge drive. Collections at cinema.

Midlands.

ALCESTER.—House-to-house collection.

BIRMINGHAM.—Collections arranged at the Alexandra and Royal Theatres. Collections in the arcades and railway stations.

House-to-house collections in longstanding and Moseley. Contribution scheme, arranged by Mrs. Stevens. Address to the Rann Street Women's Unionists by the Birmingham branch secretary. Film display, arranged by Mrs. Jordan and Captain Philip Rodway at Olton. Phantom life-boat ball.

BRISTOL.—Phantom life-boat ball.

KENILWORTH.—House-to-house collection.

LEAMINGTON.—By a mistake in the last number of The Life-boat, the amount contributed in 1939 was given as £216. It should have been £316, an increase of £30 on 1938.

Life-boat day.

MABLETHORPE.—The branch has lost an old coxswain by the death at the age of seventy-four, of Coxswain Richard M. Bishop.

He retired with a pension in 1920, when the station was closed, after serving as coxswain for fourteen years.

NOTTINGHAM.—Annual meeting, Lieut- Commander G. J. Mackness, D.S.C., R.N., chairman, presiding in the absence of The Duke of Portland, K.G., P.C., G.C.V.O., patron of the branch, supported by the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress. Speaker: the district organizing secretary. Amount collected in 1939, £837, an increase of £128 on 1938.

Life-boat ball. Whist drives.

SKEGNESS.—The branch has lost an old coxswain by the death of Coxswain Matthew Grunnill, at the age of seventy-seven. He served as second coxswain for eight years and coxswain for twenty-four years, retiring with a pension in 1932.

STOKE-ON-TRENT.—Annual meeting of Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Mrs. Moxon, chairman, presiding, supported by the Lady Mayoress, president. Presentation of framed picture awarded by the Institution to Mr.

Hughes, manager of Theatre Royal, Hanley.

SUTTON COLDFIELD.—House-to-house collection.

TOWCESTER.—Whist drive.

WARWICK.—Life-boat day.

South-East of England.

ATTLEBOROUGH.—Life-boat day. Lifeboat film "The Story of the Life-boat" shown.

BECCLES.—Collection at meeting of Beccles Historical Society at which a paper was read on the work of the life-boats on the Suffolk coast.

BOGNOR REGIS.—Carol singing.

BROADSTAIRS. — Branch re-formed.

Honorary secretary, Mr. C. J. Greene.

CAMBERLEY. — " Bring-and-buy " lifeboat shop. Carol singing.

CHORLEY WOOD.—Carol singing.

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

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

Efforts of the past year: Life-boat day, church collections and whist drive. Amount collected in 1939, £155, an increase of £11 on 1938.

CLAYGATE.—Carol singing.

DARTFORD.—Series of ten lantern lectures, to audiences numbering 1050.

EASTBOURNE.—Annual meeting: the Deputy Mayor presiding. Speaker: Mr.

Ernest Armstrong, chairman of the branch and a member of the committee of management 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 1939, £1,364, Life-boat crew entertained to dinner by Mr. J. E. Chilvers.

GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON.

—Dance, arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

FOLKESTONE.—Series of bridge drives.

HASBOROUGH AND DISTRICT.—Whist drive at Bacton.

IPSWICH.—Dance.

KESSINGLAND.—Whist drive.

KING'S LYNN—Concert.

LITTLEHAMPTON.—Dance.

LOWESTOFT.—Annual meeting, Mr. F.

Spashett, J.P., chairman, presiding. Efforts of the past year: Life-boat day and dance.

Amount collected in 1939, £254, an increase of £30 on 1938.

MARGATE.—Visit of the motor life-boat to the Tongue and Edinburgh Lightships with Christmas gifts from the people of Margate.

RICKMANSWORTH AND CROXLEY GREEN.—Bridge parties.

SEI.SEY.—Annual meeting, Mr. F. Keep, a member of the committee, presiding.

Efforts of the past year: Life-boat day, whist drive and golf competition. Amount collected in 1939, £164, an increase of £2 on 1938.

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

Whist drive.

SOUTHBOROUGH AND DISTRICT.— Annual meeting, Mr. C. Kynaston, a member of the committee, presiding. Efforts of the past year: House-to-house collections.

Amount collected in 1939, £77, an increase of £6 on 1938.

STEYNING.—Branch formed. Honorary secretary, Mr. E. Newgass.

WALTON AND FRINTON. Annua meeting, the Rev. B. J. Edwards, vicar of Walton, and a member of the branch committee, presiding. Efforts of the past year: Life-boat day, life-boat Sunday, and angling competition. Amount collected in 1939, £218, an increase of £8 on 1938.

WELLS (Norfolk).—The thanks of the Institution on vellum awarded to Mr. H. E.

Loynes on his retirement after 44 years' service as honorary secretary, presented by Mr. F. Raven, J.P., deputy chairman of the branch. Whist drive.

WINDSOR, ETON AND DISTRICT.

Carol singing.

WOLVERTON AND DISTRICT.—The branch has suffered a severe loss through the death of its honorary secretary, Mr. T. W.

Impey.

South-West of England.

APPLEDORE.—Annual meeting, Captain the Hon. D. Scott, president of the branch, in the chair. Amount collected in 1939, £190.

BRIDGWATER.—Annual dance at North Petherton.

CAMBORNE.—New Year's dinner.

Speaker: Lieut.-CoI. C. R. Satterthwaite, O.B.E., secretary of the Institution. Dance.

COVERACK.—Annual dinner given by Mr. R. F. Roxburgh, K.C., to committee and crew.

EXETER.—Mrs. Gamble's 21st charity performance, "A Hundred Years Old" at the Theatre Royal. Prologue from "The Wanderer" by the Poet Laureate, and the lines by Miss E. Fogerty, C.B.E., spoken by Miss Lillah McCarthy, O.B.E. (Lady Keeble).

Dramatic Performance at Stoke Canon.

FALMOUTH.—Naming ceremony of the new motor life-boat Cran-ford and Constance Conybeare. (A full account will appear in a later issue.) Address to the Rotary Club by Mr. W. L. Jarvis, honorary secretary.

ILFRACOMBE.—Annual meeting. Mr. J.

Armstrong, vice-president, in the chair.

Amount collected in 1939, £226.

ISLE OF WIGHT: COWES.—American Tea.

Young People's dance.

Annual Ball.

MINEHEAD.—Annual meeting, Mr. H.

M. Brandram, chairman, presiding. Amount collected in 1939, £363, an increase of £175 on 1938.

OXFORD.—Annual meeting, the Mayor, president of the branch, in the chair.

Amount collected in 1939, £693, an increase of £58 on 1938.

PADSTOW.—Annual meeting, the chairman of the branch, presiding. Amount collected in 1939, £214, an increase of £5 on 1938.

PAIGNTON.—Annual bridge and whist drive.

PLYMOUTH.—Annual social, and lifeboat day at Bere Ferrers.

READING.—Play at Basildon.

RING VOOD.—Dance.

SALISBURY.—Annual whist drive at Bemerton, whist drive at Bodenham.

SOUTHAMPTON.—Whist drive.

SWANAGE: WAREHAM DISTRICT Whist drive. Appeal by the Mayor.

THAME.—Fancy dress dance.

TORQUAY.—Annual bridge and whist drive.

WATCHET.—Annual meeting, Captain H. K. Hole, chairman, presiding. Amount collected in 1939, £100.

WEYMOUTH.—Annual meeting, the Mayor, vice-chairman, presiding. Amount collected in 1939, £274.

The branch has lost a valued friend by the death of Captain H. C. Mayo, O.B.E., R.N., who was its honorary secretary from 1931 to 1938.

YEOVIL.—Address to Rotary Inner Wheel by district organizing secretary.

Scotland.

AYTON AND BURNMOUTH.—Annual New Year dance.

BANFF, MACDUFF, WHITEHILLS AND GARDENSTOWN.—Annual meeting of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild on 15th November.

Efforts of the past year: Whist drives, dancing display, house-to-house collection, life-boat day and competition.

Whist drive organized by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild at which the prizes were presented by Provost Addison of Banff.

BATHGATE, AND BIGGAR.—Life-boat days.

BUCKIE.—The branch has lost an old coxswain by the death of Coxswain John Cowie. He retired with a pension in 1920, after serving for 11 years as second coxswain and six years as coxswain.

CAMPBELTOWN.—Annual meeting, Dr.

J. P. Brown, D.S.O., J.P., president of the branch, in the chair. Efforts of the past year: Appeal for subscriptions and golf competitions. Amount collected in 1939, £154.

CARLUKE, AND CULROSS.—Life-boat days.

DUNBAR AND SKATERAW.—General Sir Reginald Wingate, Bt., G.C.B., G.C.V.O., G.B.E., K.C.M.G., D.S.O., vice-president of the branch and a member of the committee of management of the Institution, presented the customary Christmas gifts of tea, tobacco and woollen comforts to the members of the crews.

DUNOON.—Whist drive.

EDINBURGH.—Address to the St. Cuthbert's Scottish Co-operative Women's Guild (Georgie Branch) by the Scottish organizing secretary.

ELIE.—Bridge drive at the house of the honorary secretary of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Whist drive.

FORTROSE.—Life-boat day.

GALASHIELS.—Annual meeting on 17th January, Miss Dorothy Chapman presiding.

Speaker: The Scottish organizing secretary.

Efforts of the past year: Daffodil day and appeal for annual subscriptions. Amount collected in 1939, £74.

GIRVAN.—Annual meeting of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild on 10th November. Efforts of the past year: Whist drive and dance.

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

GREENOCK.—Annual meeting on 29th November. Efforts of the past year: Houseto- house collection and life-boat day.

Amount collected in 1939, £308, an increase of £141 on 1938.

INVERGORDON, AND INVERNESS.— Life-boat days.

ISLE OF ISLAY.—Annual New Year dance at Bowmore, arranged by Mrs. Fisher.

KILMARNOCK.—Football match collection.

A concert in the Manse drawing-room, arranged by Ray and Iain Maclntyre (aged 12 and 7), assisted by Eleanor and Ken Binnie, Marie and Rona Scott, and Elina Neil. At the close of the concert they handed over £1 Is. to Miss Hibbs, the joint honorary secretary, who thanked them for their help.

KIRKCUDBRIGHTSHIRE. — Annual meeting on 15th December, Sir Charles Hope- Dunbar, Bt., president of the branch in the chair, preceded by the annual meeting of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, Mrs. Yerburgh of Barwhillanty, vice-president, in the chair.

Efforts of the past year: Life-boat days, house-to-house collections, whist drive and appeal for subscriptions. Amount collected in 1939, £174.

LEVEN.—Annual meeting on 18th January.

Efforts of the past year: Whist drives and life-boat day. Amount collected in 1939, £78. At the close of the meeting a whist drive was held.

MONTROSE.—Annual meeting of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild on 29th November, Mrs. Forsyth Grant, vice-president, in the chair. Speakers: Provost Todd and the Scottish organizing secretary. Efforts of the past year: Cinema matinee and life-boat day.

NAIRN.—Cinema collection and life-boat film " Boats That Save Life " shown.

TROON.—Annual meeting on 22nd December, Ex-Provost Dugald McAlister. chairman of the branch, presiding. Efforts of the past year: Annual joint Church Service, whist drive, life-boat day, and appeal for subscriptions. Amount collected in 1939, £174, an increase of £17 on 1938.

WICK.—Annual meeting of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild on 27th November. Efforts of the past year: Whist drive and life-boat day.

Wales.

Including Herefordshire, Monmouthshire and Shropshire.

BANGOR.—Dance.

BARRY DOCK.—The branch has lost an old coxswain by the death of Coxswain Evan Owens at the age of 83. He retired in 1917 with a pension after serving for 16 years as coxswain.

BLAENAU FESTINIOG.—Dance.

FERRYSIDE.—Dance.

PENARTH.—Whist drive.

Ireland.

BANGOR.—Dance, organized by the Ballyholme Yacht Club, proceeds divided between the Institution and the Ulster War Hospitals Supply Dep6t.

BRAY.—Annual life-boat dance.

CARLOW.—Life-boat dance organized by Chancellor S. Ridgeway, M.A.

CLOUGHEY.—Carol singing.

CORK.—Golf competition.

DONAGHADEE.—Annual meeting, the president Mr. George L. Delacherois in the chair. Amount collected in 1939, £109.

DUBLIN.—Children's party.

GREYSTONES.—Life-boat concert organized by Mrs. Edward Archer, president of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild.

MIDLETON.—Lifeboat dance organized by Mr. W. St. Clair Rice, honorary secretary..