ANOTHER SNOW-BOUND TOWN HELPED Portpatrick, Wigtownshire.—On the 14th of March, 1947, when the Portpatrick district was snowbound and food was short, the motor life-boat Jeanie Spiers went to Stranraer to fetch bread and other provisions. She was launched at 11.0 in the morning and arrived at Stranraer at 2.10 in the afternoon.

The loading took an hour and a half and she returned to her station, stop- ping on her way to leave bread for the lighthouse-keepers atKillantringan.

She reached Portpatrick at 7.0 that evening.-—Rewards, £12 10s..