THE Lord Mayor's Procession this year was a pageant of "Transport Through the Ages." It began with an Arab water carrier and ancient Britons, a man and woman travelling on foot. It ended with British Overseas and Euro- pean Airways. At the end of the section "Water Transport" came the Institution's pulling and sailing life- boat Mary Theresa Boileau, (which served at Dungeness from 1912 to 1939), with a skeleton crew on board.

The procession moved in pouring rain and all the Press recorded that the only happy people in it were the life- boat's crew, looking very comfortable in their heavy oilskins.

It was not possible, owing to its size, to have a modern motor life-boat.

This is the first time since 1923, that a life-boat has taken part in the Proces- sion..