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Encouraging the Young

A good illustration of how the energies of the young can be harnessed with the encouragement of older members of the R.N.L.I. is the case of Jane and Debra Whiting, aged 10 and 12, of Grimsby, who this year held a garden sale at their home on behalf of the Grimsby ladies' life-boat guild. They raised £20. The year before that they made £10. They knit, make and collect articles and renovate toys. At this year's sale they were "rained off" for the first day, returned to their stalls the following day, and enjoyed such a brisk trade that they continued into the third day..