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A Noted Badge

DURING a recent visit to Scotland Yard to discuss future flag-day arrangements with the police, the district organising secretary for Greater London asked the inspector what he thought of the Institution's emblem, as there had been suggestions that it might perhaps be changed. The inspector replied that the previous week a Swedish police official had been at the Yard, to study its methods of controlling street collections, and the first question that he asked was: "What is the Society for which the little boats are sold?".