IT is impossible at present to get more of the small metal life-boat collecting boxes. Nor will it be possible to get them for a long time. Meanwhile the Institution has none. If any branches have boxes which they are not using, will they very kindly return them to Royal National Life-boat Institution, Life-boat Depot, Boreham Wood, Herts.

If they are damaged they can be repaired.

Honorary secretaries who have damaged boxes which they want to should return these also, and the use depot will repair them and send them back. Though there are no metal boxes in stock, the Institution has cardboard collecting boxes on stands which can be used in place of the metal boxes..