UNDER the will of Miss Maud Smith, of Chesham Place, London, who died in February, 1943, £200 was given to the Institution for investment, from which a sum not exceeding £5 was to be given in January of each year to the life-boatman who had performed the bravest act of life-saving in the previous year. The gift was to be known as "Miss Maud Smith's reward for courage in memory of John, 7th Earl of Hardwicke." This award has now been made three times. For 1944 it was given to Coxswain William Gammon, of The Mumbles, for the rescue of forty-two lives from the Canadian frigate Cheboque, for which he won the Institution's gold medal; for 1945 to W. Orchard, assistant motor mechanic at Padstow, for taking command of the life-boat and rescuing seven lives from the Norwegian steamer Sjoj'na, for which he won the Institution's silver medal; and for 1946 to J. R. Harland, of the Whitby crew, for going overboard from the life-boat in a rough sea and rescuing a man who had been washed out of the fishing boat Easter Morn, for which he won the Institution's silver medal, the Silver Medal for Gallantry in Saving Life awarded by the King, and the honorary certificate of the Carnegie Hero Trust.