To celebrate the centenary of the establishment of the Walmer Life- boat station the Goodwin Sands and Downs branch of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild launched, at the suggestion of the branch secretary, Mrs. Cavell, a special campaign to raise £1 for every year of the station's existence. Special efforts included a choral concert, a variety concert, the production of a play and a Punch and Judy show staged by two little girls. In the end more than £142 were raised.

* * * Mr. A. S. Hicks, honorary secretary of the Port of Plymouth branch, recently gave his hundredth lecture on behalf of the Institution. To carry out his lecture programme he has travelled some 900 miles, and in the course of his lectures more than £300 Jiave been collected. His lectures are illustrated by slides made from photo- graphs which he has taken himself.

* * * Miss T. Haylett, honorary secretary of the Caister Ladies' Life-boat Guild, arranged for visitors to Caister life- boathouse to place ship halfpennies in such a way that they formed the figures 1764. This represented at the time the number of lives rescued by Caister life-boats.

* * * A sideshow called "Find the Wreck" was a feature of a garden fete organised by the Stanmore branch. A canvas sheet was painted to represent the sea, and on it visitors pinned emblems, such as are sold on flag days, which they bought. The position of the wreck was marked on the inside of the canvas and the visitor who placed the pin nearest to the spot won a prize.

* * * Mr. C. A. Griffin, a member of the committee of the Scunthorpe branch, has been selling sketches oh behalf of branch funds.

* * * Miss Marian Tonge gave a hair styling demonstration on behalf of the funds of the Blackpool branch of the Institution.

* * * Shortly before the flag day in Ath- Raising Money lone the honorary secretary, Mrs. H. J.

Rice, wrote a letter which was published in the Athlone Independent calling attention to the Institution's needs.

About the same time a colourful story about life-boats written by her husband, Colonel H. J. Rice, was published in the paper.

* ; * * Mr. H. Griffiths, landlord of the Wellington Hotel at Dover and former master of the tug Rumania, calls upon all customers who break glasses to make a contribution in a collecting box on the bar.

* * * Mr. John Liddell, of Messrs Hedley Pattinson Ltd., Chemists, of Whitley Bay, is frequently asked by mothers to weigh their babies. He makes no charge for this service but has a life-boat collecting box near the scales.

* * * Mr. Don Buchanan, who has a photo- graphic business in Whitley Bay, makes no charge for minor camera repairs, but suggests that a contribution should be put into the life-boat collecting box.

* * * Mr. A. D. Ferguson of Lochgair Hotel, Lochgilphead, Ardrishaig, has raised considerable sums of money for the Institution by a tower of pennies erected in the cocktail bar of his hotel.

* * * Mrs. Kern of Finchley has an album recording the history of the Cromer life-boat station in photographs and press cuttings. This is left in the Cromer no. 2 boathouse during the summer, and those who look at it are asked to make a contribution to the Cromer branch funds.

* * * Mr. Palmer, the proprietor of the Railway Hotel, Pitsea, organized a mock football match in which the average age of the players was 47. All players were in fancy dress. The match raised £6 10.9. Od. for the Institution.

* * * The Avon Sailing Club at Tewkes- bury confiscates garments left in the changing rooms on Sundays during the season and auctions them, the pro- ceeds going to the Institution's funds..