YET ANOTHER MATERNITY CASE Aith, Shetlands.— At 4.30 in the morn- ing of the 16th of March, 1947, the services ^of the life-boat were requested for a maternity case at Sandsound.

The woman had been unsuccessfully treated by two doctors and a nurse, and now must be taken to hospital.

As the roads were snow-bound, and no other suitable boat available, the life- boat was placed at the disposal of the doctors, and at 6 o'clock the motor life-boat, The Rankin, set out for Sand- sound. A strong south-east wind was blowing with a rough sea and snow showers, and it was very cold. The life-boat took the patient, the two doctors and the nurse to Scalloway, and there an ambulance was waiting to take them to Lerwick Hospital. An operation was at once performed and though the baby was born dead the life of the mother was saved. The life-boat returned to her station at 6.30 that evening. — Rewards, £27 11s. 6d..