FOOD TO A SNOW-BOUND TOWN St. David's, Pembrokeshire.—Bv the 8th of March, 1947, the roads to St.

David's had been impassable for three days owing to heavy falls of snow, and food was getting short there. A way for a single line of traffic had been cleared to Porthclais and, at the re- quest of the Food Officer, it was arranged that the life-boat should take food and other stores to that harbour for transport by road to St. David's.

A light north-easterly breeze was blow- ing and the sea was calm when the motor life-boat Civil Service No. 6, was launched at 1.5 that afternoon. She made for Neyland, near Milford Haven, arriving at 3.5. There she was loaded with food, mails and other stores, and left at five o'clock. She arrived at Porthclais at 7.30, but it was not until 11.0 when the tide had receded, that the cargo could be landed. The work was finished by midnight, and the life-boat remained at Porthclais until 9.0 in the morning of the 9th, when she left for her station, arriving half an hour later. — Rewards, £38 12s. 6d., which were paid by the Ministry of Food..