Your paragraph (THE LIFEBOAT, June, 1968, page 61) reminds me that Mr.

Robson of North Street, New Romney, Kent, has a collecting box which was in the old Pilot Inn (now demolished) in the 1880s or 1890s. It was given to Mr.

Robson in the 1930s by Mr. Oilier, who was then the coxswain of the Dungeness life-boat, and the box has been in use ever since. It is fixed to the wall in Mr.

Robson's butcher's shop. When I empty the box I have to go with a screwdriver to remove it from the wall. A little key unlocks the tiny door at the back. It is a model of a sailing and pulling boat.

Madeline Turner, Littlestone, New Romney.

How many Salvation Army Members are Life-boatmen? •As several members of the Stockport Crew of Life-boat Auxiliaries are Salvationists we should very much like to hear from any other members who are connected with the life-boat service.

The Salvation Army once presented a life-boat. She was the Catherine Booth, which went to Norway in 1900. She was on station for 24 years and 'saved nearly 5,000 lives and some 1,770 boats'.

How about naming one of your new life-boats after the Stockport crew or the Salvation Army ? Wallace L. Barber, Honorary Secretary, Stockport Crew of Life-boat Auxiliaries.

The London headquarters of the Salvation Army could not say how many Salvationists there are serving with the life-boats or, for that matter, with the fishing fleets today. Certainly in years gone by the number of Salvationists in life- boat crews was considerable. There is a long-standing Salvation Army tradition in the Sheringham crew, and it would be interesting to hear of others.—Editor.

History Wanted • In the Waterguard Customs officers' general office on Salt Island, Holyhead, there are two plaster plaques showing a Druid's head with an old Welsh motto taken from a poem composed in 1160 meaning: None Knoweth Save Assiduous Druids.

This design was the badge of the Anglesey Druidical Society, an organisation of county gentry which flourished between 1772 and 1844, and concerned itself with rewarding those who were active in saving life from shipwreck, encouraging agricultural improvement, awarding inventors, rewarding humane actions and apprenticing children of the poor out of members' contributions at monthly meetings and an annual dinner.

I am wondering if any readers could help me in tracing the history of the building containing the plaques.

Geoffrey Butterworth, Excursions Secretary, Anglesey Antiquarian Society, Holyhead, Anglesey..