IN the last few months money has been raised for the Institution in a number of new and striking ways. A particularly welcome gift was one of £155 which came from Miss Erica Marx, of the Hand and Flower Press, Aldington, Kent. This amount re- presented the entire proceeds from a book published at £1 Is. and containing the Coronation message of Her Majesty the Queen, broadcast on the 2nd of June, together with the Prime Minister's introduction. Only 500 copies of the book were printed.

An eleven-year-old boy, Joseph Hirst, of Lewes, Sussex, collected pieces of Roman pottery and other Roman remains, and displayed them in a museum constructed in an old air-raid shelter in his father's garden.

He charged a penny admission and is sending the money to the Institution.

On the life-boat flag day at Skegness a St. Bernard dog walked along the front and collected more than £20 in a box on its back.

A lady in Halifax, who invited a few friends to see the Coronation on her television set, suggested, at the end, that they should have a collection for the Life-boat Service. The friends agreed. The result was a cheque to the Institution for four pounds.

Mrs. Watt, the proprietress of the Bayview Hotel, Macduff, Banffshire, has a show case with three panels standing above the hotel bar. Coins given by the customers are stuck on to the panels with beer. The idea originated about the time of the dis- aster to the Fraserburgh life-boat when a customer asked what to do with a halfpenny over which some beer had been spilt. In a few months more than £12 was collected, all of which is being sent to the Institution.

Another hotel in Macduff, the Knowes, whose proprietress is Miss Johnston, also has an unusual way of raising money for the Institution.

From time to time a placard is placed on the bar with the letters WYPAPITLIITY on it. Customers are told what this means only if they give a penny to the Institution. The barman then explains that the word stands for "Will you put a penny in the life-boat if I tell you ?''.