EARLY last year Mr. Hugh Matheson, jr., of the Jamaica Inn, Miami, Florida, U.S.A., made a request for English life-boat service photographs to hang in a room there. His request was fulfilled.

In October came news that, with the pictures he had received, Mr. Matheson had been able to establish a room now known as the 'Royal National Life-boat Room'. Also on display is a life-boat appeal poster and a map of the life-boat operational districts of Great Britain and Ireland.

A life-boat collecting box was also forwarded to Mr. Matheson, and he tells us: 'There is now a receptacle for contributions towards your worthy efforts and we wish to assure you that these, whatever they may be, will be forwarded to you once yearly to help in your worthy cause'..