IN the new year's honours list appeared three lifeboat names. Commander Philip Vaux, D.S.C., R.N., the late chief inspector of life-boats, was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. Mr. John S. Duncan, the honorary secretary of the Wick life- boat station, was made a Member of the Order in recognition of his work for the Life-boat Service for 30 years.

Commander J. M. Upton, R.D., R.N.R., the superintendent of the de- pot, was made a Member of the Order, not for services to the Institution but for his honorary work as chairman of the Barnett and District Disable- ment Advisory Committee..