The Civil Service and Post Office Life-boat Fund continues to maintain its splendid record for the R.N.L.I., and in 1970 for the first time raised over £30,000. In 1970 the Post Office, Inland Revenue, Ministry of Public Buildings and Works, Navy Department and the Ministry of Defence generally contributed £31,350. To date the Fund, which was set up in 1866, has paid for 36 life-boats..