HONOURS bestowed on those associated with the life-boat service in the Birthday Honours for 1961 included:— Baronet. THE RIGHT HON. SIR ROLAND THOMAS NUGENT, D.L., J.P., president of the Cloughey branch.

K.B. ALDERMAN R. G. C.

KINAHAN, E.R.D., J.P., formerly Lord Mayor of Belfast and president of the Belfast branch.

K.B.E. SIR LAWRENCE EDWARDS, O.B.E., D.L., J.P., chairman of the Tynemouth branch.

C.B.E. MR. W. R. KNOX, M.B.E., M.M., J.P., Co. C., honorary secretary of the Portrush branch.

O.B.E. MRS. M. M. BRICKHILL, chair- man of the Wilmslow branch and a member of the Man- chester branch executive com- mittee.

M.B.E. MRS. D. ADAMSON, J.P., a vice-president of the Hyde branch..