North Sunderland, Northumberland.— At 1.10 in the afternoon of the 19th of December, 1949, a wireless message picked up by the Fifeness coastguard and sent to the Seahouses coastguard said that a workman engaged on the reconstruction of the Longstone Light- house had been injured. At 1.35 the life-boat W.R.A. was launched in a full gale from the west, but found it impossible to land in the very rough sea. It was an hour and a half before she could take the man on board. Then she returned to her station at 4.25, where the injured man (who had a badly crushed hand and wrist) was taken to hospital.—Rewards, £26 17s., which were refunded by the Contractors.