Mr. Douglas Newall, a water bailiff employed by the Avon and Dorset River Board, and Major Oliver Kite, a well-known fisherman, tied some specimen dry flies as used on the chalk streams of southern England. The case of flies was auctioned at the Fly Fishers' Club in aid of the R.N.L.I. and fetched £10.

* * * Miss Honoria Diana Marsh, of Kings Somborne, Stockbridge, Hampshire, who last year decorated a glass goblet with a picture of the Weston-super-Mare life-boat, is offering to do one or two profile portraits each year and to give the proceeds to the Institution. She requires only a two hours'1 sitting for the portraits— although each takes several hours to complete—and the fee for a small portrait is 15 guineas. Prospective sitters are asked to get in touch direct with her at Somborne Park, Kings Somborne, and the fees paid to her will be sent on to the Institution.

* * * A member of the Norwich branch committee has a permanent collecting box in his bathroom. Whenever he takes a bath he empties his pockets of all the coppers and places them in the box. In three months about £6 has been raised by this method.

* * * A little girl who has been recovering from near-blindness grows "Busy Lizzies", in aid of R.N.L.I. funds. She gives the proceeds to the chairman of the Dover Ladies' Life-boat Guild saying they are "for your life-boat." * •* * The senior class of the Newport (Pembs.*) County Primary School maintained the closest interest during the summer of 1964 in the progress of Mr. Val Howells, a Newport man, in the single-handed Trans-Atlantic yacht race. They corresponded regularly with him and wrote to the mayor of Newport, Rhode Island. On his return Mr. Howells spoke to the school and presented a model of his yacht. The yacht came third in the race in spite of a collision with a boatful of sightseers at the start and having to put into Baltimore in Ireland for repairs. The school produced a souvenir booklet including the correspondence and extracts from essays by the children, and the profits from the booklet, amounting to £10, were donated to the Institution..