A sponsored marathon swim was undertaken by four young men in aid of Thurso ladies' life-boat guild funds. About £300 was raised. The swim continued from the evening of Friday, llth December, until 6p.m. on Sunday, 13th December, and a total distance of 54 miles was covered.

When Mrs. Codrington of the Swindon committee told the R.N.L.I. that she could no longer undertake collecting, being well into her 90s, she changed her mind when she found there was little time left to form a committee before the flag day in July. Instead she asked for 60 boxes and agreed to get them distributed.

Mr. and Mrs. N. Nelmes, who run a fish stall in Salisbury, are displaying a life-boat picture and a poem called 'Our Fishermen'. Bunches of parsley are being offered in exchange for a donation to the R.N.L.I.

collecting box alongside..