A VARIATION of the old game of musical chairs was played at the eleventh birthday party of the Hornchurch Sea Cadets early this year. A pot was passed round a circle of people. The pot had to be kept moving but when the music stoppe'd the holder had to put in a coin. .The game was organ- ised by Lieutenant B. W. Durrant, R.N.R. (Retd.), and it produced one guinea for the Institution.

Mr. E. Stacey Marks, a picture and fine art dealer in Eastbourne. Sussex, has printed a catalogue for his clients, and instead of charging for it has invited them to put some money in his life-boat collecting box. In this way he has raised more than £27 in a year.

Mr. Alexander Gauld. a chemist of Buckie, Banffshire, is giving the money put in the weighing machine in his shop to the Institution.

A master at a famous public school sent £1, which had been collected from various members of the school who suffered from "temporary amne- sia." The defaulters had agreed in advance to this system of penalties and had chosen the Institution as the beneficiary.

The Swinton and Pendlebury branch organized a lecture on beauty hints and gave the proceeds from the 2s. 6d.

admission fee to the Institution.Two children in Halifax, Jill and Judy Denham, aged nine and seven, have been making toffee and selling it to their friends at Is. a quarter, giving the money to the Institution.

Their mother, who is the honorary secretary of the ball committee of the Halifax Ladies' Life-boat Guild, also has to pay her Is. Already more than £l has been raised in this way..