Miss E. Dobie, ex-president of the Dunoon ladies' life-boat guild, reported late last year that one of their oldest guild members, Miss Oswald, had celebrated her hundredth birthday.

She lives at Kilmun, near Dunoon, and is still a paid-up member. 'There can't', commented Miss Dobie, 'be many guild members aged one hundred about' (see page 298)..