Lerwick, Shetlands.—At midnight of February 27th, 1947, a doctor tele- phoned that he was needed for an urgent maternity case at Quarff, and snow prevented him going by road. He asked for the life-boat's help. The motor life-boat Lady Jane and Martha Ryland was launched at 1.35 A.M. with the doctor and a nurse on board. It was very cold. The breeze from the south-east was moderate, but the sea was rough, and the life-boat arrived at Quarff to find that it was too heavy for people on shore to launch a small boat to land the doctor and nurse, so she had to bring them back, reaching Ler- wick again just before 4.0 in the morn- ing.—Rewards, £8 19s..