THE Royal National Life-boat Institution announced in January awards to voluntary workers who have devoted their time and energies to the life-boat service.

Highest award in the list, that of honorary life governor, given only for exceptionally long and valuable service, is being accorded to Air Marshal Sir Brian Baker, K.B.E., C.B., D.S.O., M.C., A.F.C., of Howard Place, St. Andrew's, Fife.

Sir Brian, who has supported the R.N.L.I.

for more than 50 years, was appointed honorary secretary of the Institution's St. Andrew's branch in 1952 and six years ago was awarded the Institution's silver badge.

The next highest award, a bar to the Institution's gold badge, has been awarded to Mrs.

Peggy Hamley-Rowan of Fulham Road, London, who has been honorary secretary of the East Sheen and Barnes branch for 31 years and who has helped raise increased sums of money locally. She was awarded an R.N.L.I, gold badge in 1961.

GOLD BADGES Gold badges, awarded to honorary secretaries of life-boat stations, financial branches and ladies' life-boat guilds after 25 years' service, or less in exceptional cases, have been awarded to 11 voluntary workers. These include: Miss V. S. Bennion of Bcxhill-on-Sea, chairman of the Bexhill guild for four years out of a total of 22 years' service to the R.N.L.I.

Major Norman Dugdalc, M.C., of Roker Park Terrace, Sunderland, honorary secretary of the Sunderland life-boat station for 24 years.

Mrs. Serena Fair, of Dungcness, Romney Marsh, has been a launcher at Dungeness for 51 years— since she was 14 years old—and is now senior life-boat launcher.

Mr. H. B. Fleet, of North Down Park Road, Margate, for around 20 years has been prominently associated with the work of the Margate branch of which he has been honorary secretary since 1961.

Dr. W. J. Guild, B.SC., PH.D., of Grange Loan, Edinburgh, for more than 30 years has keenly supported the R.N.L.I. He became a member of the Edinburgh Committee in 1953 and a member of the Scottish Life-Boat Council in 1959. He has made several films about the Institution's activities.Dr. E. Clifton Johnson, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., of High Street, Walton-on-Naze, a local branch committee member and honorary medical adviser since 1936.

Mr. J. S. Ling, of Borrow Road, Oulton Broad, Lowestoft, honorary secretary of the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston life-boat station since 1952. Mr. Ling has a total of 25 years' service with the organisation.

Mrs. J. M. Lucas, of Longbridge Road, Barking, has been honorary secretary of the Barking branch for 21 years and was previously local 'life-boat week' organiser for two years.

Miss G. L. McCarter, of Lurgan, County Armagh, secretary of the local branch for 22 years and an honorary worker for several years before that.

Mrs. D. M.'Gonigle, of High Street, Norton, Teesside, a member of the Stockton-on-Tees branch for more than 40 years, assistant secretary between 1933-42 and honorary secretary for 28 years.

Mr. John Sinclair, M.B.E., of Millers Lane, Thurso, Caithness, during a long association with the R.N.L.I., has been station chairman at Thurso for 21 years.

SILVER BADGES Silver badges—awarded to financial branch and ladies' guild honorary secretaries after 10 years' service and to others in exceptional cases —are being presented to 51 workers in Great Britain and Ireland. Further awards, including commemorative statuettes, have been approved for 20 other voluntary workers.

Mrs. M. Appleby-Matthews, Tamworth; Mr. F.

Bell-Scott, M.B.E., Birmingham; Miss E. M. Black, Isle of Arran; Mrs. C. Bradley, Rochester; Miss M. H. P. A. Cameron, Lundin Links; Mrs. I. D.

Campbell, Ardrossan; Mrs. T. Campbell, Kilmarnock; Mr. J. C. Corin, Coverack; Mrs. M. J.

Coughtrie, Glasgow; Mrs. D. E. Davis, Walton and Frinton; Miss L. Ennis-Woods, Howth; Mrs. P. L.

Foster, Tadworth; Mr. R. Fraser, Aith; Mrs. M.

Goodbody, Limberick; Mrs. E. Grieg, Conisbrough; Mrs. L. Guillemette, Guernsey; Mr. S. Harford, Bushey and Bushey Heath; Mrs. T. Hislop, Doncaster; Mrs. W. A. Innes, Horley; Mrs. P. Irvine, Dublin; Mrs. P. E. Jennens, Solihull; Mrs. C. Emlyn Jones, Cardiff; Mr. J. C. Kennedy, Newquay; Miss E. M.

Killick, Bexhill; Mrs. H. F. Lambourne, Sutton Coldfield; Miss L. E. Lynes, Bournemouth; Mr.

M. C. McAvoy, Caister; Mrs. L. McDermott, Cheltenham; Mrs. A. McKnight, Dun Laoghaire; Mrs. A. McMullan, Howth; Mrs. N. G. Mitchell, Dewsbury; Mrs. R. Pepper, Pulborough; Mrs.

G. B. G. Potter, Boxmoor and Hemel Hempstead; Mrs. T. Purdy, Aylsham and District; Miss A. L.

Read, Worthing; Mrs. T. L. Richards, Malmesbury; Mrs. L. Rigby, Silloth; Mrs. J. E. Roberts, South Caernarvonshire; Mr. H. Morris Roberts, Aberystwyth; Mrs. D. L. Simons, Welling; Mrs. F. Simpsons, Leven; Mrs. E. Spiro, Dun Laoghaire; Mr. C. R.

Tilson, Leix Co.; Mrs. I. M. Warran, Welling; Mr. R. P. Weeden, Twickenham; MrT. J. Wellingham, Dartford; Mrs. S. W. Whateley, Bude; Miss E.

Whitelam, Beverley; Miss G. S. Wilkinson, Durham City; Mrs. M. D. Willan, Shaw and Cromptin.STATUETTES Mrs. M. R. Auckland, Scarborough; Mrs. H.

Forcer Evans, Anglesey; Mr. M. Long, Dingle; Mrs. D. M. MacDonald, Watton; Mr. and Mrs.

S. E. Maddox, Dungeness; Mrs. T. F. Miles, Cardiff; Mr. G. Pitts, Birmingham; Mr W. F. Smith, Seaham; Mrs. E. C. Stott, Barnsley; Tottenham Rotary Club, Tottenham; Mr. W. F. Cormack, Lockerbie; Mrs.

J. C. T. MacRobert, Paisley, Mr. F. Patterson, Anstruther; Mrs. I. Stevenson, Dunbar; Mrs.

J. W. M. Wright, Isle of Arran.

BINOCULARS Captain A. Mackay, Stornoway; Mr. C. A. Perry, Clacton.

BAROMETER Captain Anderson, Anstruther; Mr. R. Oxley, Walton and Frinton; Captain J. Stevens, St. Ives.

CHAIRMAN'S LETTER Mr. T. F. Bevan, Lynmouth; Mr. S. F. Collings, Newquay; Mrs. G. Drewett, Dartford; Mr. R. P.

Jenkins, Coulsdon, Kenley and Purley; Mr. H. P.

Mathew, Herne Bay; Mrs. Metcalfe, Sidcup; Miss M. G. Newman, Chippeifield; Mr. L. Pengelly, Swansea, Mumbles; Mrs. E. Sykes, Moelfre; Miss C. W. Lowsley Williams, Tetbury.

STATUETTE AWARDSPUBLIC RELATIONS Miss B. Baxter, BBC Television; Mr. G. B. Bayes, Flamborough; Mr. J. McAnthony, Dublin; Mr.

H. L. Prynn, Salcombe.

SHEEP ROAST RECIPE When Mrs. Nova Gourlay, ofPortling, Colvend, Kirkcudbrightshire, arranged a sheep roast in aid of the R.N.L.I.—it made £140—the arrangements were as follows: ' We held it at our farm and had a dance in the barn. My husband and a friend made an automatic electrically driven spit and we roasted a 52 Ib.

lamb over smokeless fuel donated by the local coal merchant. The men did all the cooking on the night and the local butcher boy and a London surgeon did the carving. We also had a lamb donated and cooked this in the oven earlier. We provided sausages and onions and also lamb and mint sauce and bread rolls. We had a late licence until 1 o'clock and the bar was set up in the tractor house. The tombola and raffle were supported with many wonderful gifts from local people. About 200 people came on 12s. tickets'.