THE Institution will again have a Christmas card and a pocket calendar for sale. The card will be a reproduction in colour of the picture on page 98.

It is a photograph of the Aberystwyth life-boat launching in a gale, and is reproduced by courtesy of the Cambrian News.

The card will be of four pages, with the picture on page one, greetings on page three and the Institution's crest on page two. The price of the card, with the envelope, will be 9d. Name and address can be printed in, if not fewer than twenty-five are ordered, at an added cost of 10s. for 25 and under 50, 12s. 6d. for 50 and under 100, and 20s.

for 100 up to 200.The pocket calendar will have on the front a photograph of the Blyth lifeboat on the slipway. It can be obtained in dozens. The price is 2s. for the first dozen and Is. 6d. for each additional dozen.

There will also be a hanging calendar, with a picture in colour, a reproduction of a photograph of the Ramsgate life-boat Michael and Lily Davis returning to harbour. This calendar is not for sale and is produced primarily for distribution to solicitors' offices. Supporters of the Institution living in the Irish Republic are asked to order Christmas cards from the Dublin office, 32, South Frederick Street, Dublin, C.2..