An attractive girl dressed in a Nell Gwynn costume has been seen selling oranges on behalf of the Institution at a number of towns in the south and south-west of England where life-boats are stationed. She is Miss Sue Peters, and the oranges have been given by the South African Co-operative Citrus Exchange Ltd. The local branches have received the whole proceeds from the sales, and it has been found that the average donation from each individual buyer has been twice the retail cost of an orange.

Messrs. Telford and Scott of Carlisle conducted an auction sale of high quality goods in the Exchange Sale- rooms, as a result of which no less than £884 was received by the Institution.

A fire officer in Pudsey gives the Pudsey guild every year the letting fee for one week which he charges for his bungalow at Withernsea.

factory. The proceeds from the sale of a pig were given to the branch.

The manager of a shoeshop in Beaconsfield asks for a donation to be given in his life-boat collecting box in return for stretching tight shoes.

Two girls from the Reddish Vale infants school in Cheshire gave the Institution a reward of half-a-crown which they had received from the Post Office for finding a set of Post Office keys.

Two successful money-raising efforts were carried out on board ship. Mr.

C. W. Fletcher of Bournemouth ran a sweepstake on the Grand National.

Some of the winners gave him their winnings for the life-boat service, and these and a collection he made amoun- ted to over £70.

A lady who made a voyage to India and back also made a successful collec- tion on behalf of the life-boat service.

Some years ago Mrs. V. Clarke- Welch of Bournemouth took out an insurance policy, the beneficiary of which at the time of her death is to be the R.N.L.I.

At a bring-and-buy sale organised by the Durham City ladies' life-boat guild a model of a boathouse and slipway made by a Durham cadet, Colin Potter, was shown, and Mrs. A. A. Luxmoore, the president of the guild, and Miss G. S. Wilkinson, the honorary secretary, launched jars of home-made marmalade down the slipway. These were then sold with success.

The Norton branch in Yorkshire had a stall at an event in a Norton bacon The Institution is fortunate in the help it receives from many Darby and Joan clubs, but the efforts of the Guernsey W.V.S. Darby and Joan club in collec- ting some £70 entirely in ship half- pennies is perhaps rather an exception.

The method of assembling a large pile of coppers was so successfully pursued at the Commercial Hotel, Cardigan, that a formal ceremony was held,with members of the Fishguard life- boat crew present, when Commander J.

House of Aberporth and Mr. N. O.

Mabe, honorary secretary of the Fish- guard branch, knocked over the column, which produced more than £36 for the Institution..