BY the death on the 16th of February, 1950, at the age of 73, of Mr. W. W.

Harris, M.B.E., of New Brighton and Liverpool, the Institution has lost one of its most energetic and devoted honorary secretaries. Mr. Harris, who was a marine underwriter, and chair- man of the Liverpool Underwriters' Association in 1935 and 1936, was vice- chairman of the New Brighton station from 1932, and its honorary secretary from 1934, until his death. He was also honorary secretary of the Port of Liverpool branch from 1937 until 1949, when he had to give up the work on account of ill-health.

In 1943 he was appointed a Mem- ber of the Order of the British Empire in recognition of his life-boat services..