It is also with great regret that we record the death of His Excellency the President of Ireland, Mr Erskine Hamilton Childers. The condolences of the Institution have been conveyed to his widow and the RNLI was represented at the funeral in St. Patrick's Cathedral,Dublin, by Lieut. Colonel B. D. H.

Clark, MC GM.

Mr Erskine Childers, when Minister for Transport and Power, was concerned with the lifeboat service in Ireland and had always shown a deep interest in the activities of the RNLI. This he evinced when the Chairman, Commander F.R. H.

Swann, CBE RNVR, called on him, on March 5 last year, with The Lord Killanin and other Irish members of the Committee of Management and senior RNLI staff..