IN the New Year's Honours Dr. Joseph Soar, Mus. Doc., F.R.C.O., A.R.C.M., the organist of St. David's Cathedral, and for twenty-one years the honorary secretary of the life-boat station at St.

David's, was made a member of the Order of the British Empire in recognition of his work for the Life-boat Service. He holds the Institution's bronze medal for gallantry.