RICHARD WAKELEY, aged 12, of Perm Cottage, Nore Road, Portishead, is probably the youngest editor of a nau- tical review to donate his sales profits to the Institution.

He writes, illustrates and distributes carbon copies of the Nore Review, and his November issue included an article on the new 48-foot 6-inch prototype life-boat at Yarmouth, with diagrams to explain the self-righting mechanism.

He wrote recently, "The profits (subscriptions and contributions from readers) are now nearing the los. mark.

When I reach that amount I will send it to you, probably in a month or two's time." hunt organized by the Ladies' Life- boat Guild at Ayton and Reston, Scotland. Competitors bought flags for 3d. each and put them on the map at the points where they thought the treasure was hidden.

A patient named Miss Grover who is bedridden in St. Thomas' Hospital, Haverfordwest, contributed ys. from the Christmas sale of two dolls which she dressed. Miss Grover has been in hospital for 13 years.

Ship halfpennies are exchanged for biscuits and lemonade when children aged six to nine attend a Life-boat Club in Hove on Saturday mornings.

The club is run by Mrs. Sherwood of 18 Gheton Avenue, Hove 4. Mrs.

Sherwood, a former member of the WRNS, collects the ship halfpennies in her life-boat box.

On most days when rain fell during 1963 Miss Marjory Creech, of 22 Eastwood Road, St. Anne's Park, Bristol, and a group of her friends paid a penny to life-boat funds. By the end of the year they were able to send £i IDS. to the Institution.

The Institution's linen glass cloth showing life-boat stations in the British Isles was used as a map in a treasure At Hornsey paperback books are being sold in public houses at gd. each.

Customers are invited to bring their own paperbacks to be sold and to put the money for those which they buy into a life-boat collecting box. One pub collected £2 js. $d. in three weeks.

Other fund-raisers at Hornsey have recently given £25 to the Institution.

Mr. and Mrs. F. Hawen, of Woodland Gardens, Muswell Hill, held a "Gar- den Beauty" evening at their home.

Visitors brought — and bought — house and outdoor plants, seeds and bulbs.

Members of the Stanmore Ladies' Life-boat Guild have demonstrated the profit that can be made from a capital investment of 55. They were given 55. each and asked to see how much they could make for branch funds. One member raised over £12 from making orlon hats and another collected a similar amount from cov- ering coat hangers..