Four girls of St. Margaret's House, Huyton College, Huyton, Liverpool— Janet Cranna, Penny Thomber, Jenny Giffin and Anne Mortimer—sent the following letter to the R.N.L.I.: 'Enclosed is a postal order for 14s. 6d. which is the total sum of our savings throughout the term. We decided to give up various vices for Lent and said that if we broke the rules we would cough up at 3d. a time.

As you can see we are very weak-willed, but perhaps it is just as well Charging 5s. for admission, which included refreshments, the Stockwood ladies' life-boat guild raised £10 when they arranged a wig party at a member's house. Wigs were lent by local hairdressers free of charge. A £1 donation was made by the hairdressers with the promise that, if further wigs were sold, a further commission would be paid to the guild.

7 have great pleasure', declared a thankful woman, 'in enclosing a cheque for £100. . . . We were caught in a bad storm some ten nights ago and were being driven dangerously on shore. We were, in fact, fully prepared for the eventuality of going on the rocks—but we inched out of the bay we were driven into and eventually made a harbour on the Moroccan coast after 17 hours of storm. Our two lives were saved—so perhaps this small contribution . . . might provide an item which in itself may one day save two lives.' In sending the R.N.L.I. £1 10s., a Banbury, Oxfordshire, woman of 92 wrote: 7 consider it a crying shame that the life-boat service is not better supported. . . .

One never knows when it could be our turn to need the help of the life-boat.

Would to God there had been one near when I lost my father and brother in a sailing accident in the Shannon . . . years ago. . . .' The 3C's Youth Club, Christ Church Congregational, Friern Barnet, in sending the R.N.L.I. £3 12s. 6d., explained: 'Recently we decided to have our own club badge but instead of giving each member a badge we charged a small sum and it was decided to send the money to a charity'.

Knitting for the R.N.L.I. has been a fund-raising means for a long time. For instance, Miss L. Rogers, a member of the Highgate Ladies' Leisure Club, who is a keen flag day collector, knitted pullovers and bedjackets last year which brought in £9 15s. 9d. for the Institution.

The winner of a bottle of whisky at a recent dance at Rhyi, Flintshire, drank it—with the support of his friends—and placed a note inside promising to pay £5 to the local funds of the R.N.L.I. if the finder would send the bottle back. He then asked the life-boat crew to throw it overboard when they were next out on exercise..