THE Institution has awarded the " Miss Maud Smith's reward for courage, in memory of John, Seventh Earl of Hardwicke," for the bravest act of life- saving by a life-boatman in 1950, to W.

Arnell, of the Selsey life-boat's crew, who jumped overboard from the life-boat on the 17th of April, 1950, and rescued a man who was trying to swim ashore from an overturned boat in a choppy sea. Arnell has already received the Institution's thanks inscribed on vellum.

It has awarded the first annual gift of £10 from Mrs. G. M. Porter, of Felixstowe, given for the bravest deed of the year by a life-boatman, to Cox- swain Duncan McNeill of its station at Islay on the Inner Hebrides, for fasten- ing a rope to a drifting mine so that the life-boat could tow it ashore on the 12th of April, 1950. Coxswain McNeill has already received the King's Commendation for his brav- ery..