In disclosing that the R.N.L.I.'s temporary secondhand shop in High Street, Margate, had netted £800 in three weeks, Mrs. H. D. Ford, honorary secretary of the Margate ladies' life-boat guild, said : 'We must have over 1 ,000 branches serving populations of over 45,000 (like Margate). If each one made this effort there would be a national annual profit of £800,000 to the R.N.L.I. from such sources alone.'.