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A collecting box placed at Mashford's Boat Yard, where Sir Francis Chichester's Gipsy Moth IV was berthed after her record breaking voyage back to Plymouth., raised £85 for the R.N.L.I.

* * * The CranleighYouth Club, Guildford, Surrey, have given to the Institution half of the proceeds they raised in the course of a comic pram race from Cranleigh to Brighton on 28th May, 1967. The amount was £18 i8s.

* * * When South Gloucestershire had its flag day Messrs. Corona Soft Drinks, through their area manager, Mr. B. E. G. Newman, provided a lorry for the day on which was mounted an IRB which toured the area from Kingswood to Downend and Chipping Sodbury. This, apparently, was found to be of 'very effective assistance to the numerous collectors'. Mr. Newman, incidentally, is a member of the newly formed Fishponds and Downend branch..