Mrs. Smith of Southport has handed to the Southport Guild the sum of £5, raised by a collection of a penny a week contributed by each member of the St. Andrew's Inner Wheel over 6o's Club.

Topsham Sailing Club challenged the Exe Sailing Club to a football match. This was played on the mud flats and afterwards the players had to be hosed off with cold water.

However, a collection of £7. 5. 6 was taken for the local branch of the R.N.L.I.

The honorary secretary of the Exmouth and Budleigh Salterton branch reports that their glass tank, which has a life-boat sunk in the middle of it, has raised over £25 during 7965. He comments that it is rather a bad thing to show a life-boat sunk, but people like to throw money into the water and because of this the sunken life-boat certainly pays.

The Marconi International Marine Company Limited of Chelmsford decided last year to abandon the practice of sending Company Christmas cards, and instead, to make a donation to a suitable maritime charity of the amount which would have been spent on the purchase and distribution of Christmas cards. The RNLI was chosen as the recipient of the 1965 donation, and a very acceptable 'Christmas present' was the result..