THE Life-boat Service, as has often been mentioned in the Institution's appeals, costs each year threepence a head of the population of Great Britain and Ireland.

A member of the Institution's staff was recently travelling to the office in a bus and all the way the conductor was pointing out objects of interest to the passengers. When the bus stopped at Grosvenor Gardens, nearly opposite the Institution's headquarters, he said, "Grosvenor Gardens, Royal National Life-boat Institution; lives saved at 3d, a time.".