Two years ago the Lerwick Branch wrote to over 130 firms in the Shet- iands asking if their staffs and work- people would give a penny a week to the Life-boat Service. All but one firm agreed. The contributions for the first year amounted to £300 and for the second, £270. Since the scheme started other firms have joined it.

Notice All contributions for the Institution should be sent either to the honorary secretary of the local branch or guild, or to Colonel A. D. Burnett Brown, M.C., T.D., M.A., the Secretary, Royal National Life-boat Institution, 42, Grosvenor Gardens, London, S.W.I.

All enquiries about the -work of the Institution or about this journal should be addressed to the Secretary.

The next number of THE LIFE-BOAT will be the spring number, 1951..