FOOD, MAILS AND A DOCTOR Lerwick, Shetland*.—At 9.30 in the evening of the 28th of February, 1947, the postmaster asked, on behalf of himself and the food officer, if the life-boat could go out on the following day to take food and mails to Grutness and bring back mails and milk, needed by local hospitals; and on the morning of the 1st of March the motor life-boat Lady Jane and Martha Ryland was launched at 10.15. A fresh north- easterly breeze was blowing, and the sea was rough. There were showers of snow and a keen 'frost. The life-boat arrived at Grutness at 12.20 in the afternoon, landed the food and mails and took aboard mails and milk, and two R.A.F. sergeants going on leave.

She reached her station again at 3.30 and learned that she was needed at once to take a doctor to Quarff.—-Rewards, £12., which were paid by the Ministry of Food and the Post Office..