(continued from page 135) service. During the past year £1,300 has been raised in Coventry, and the guild has planted a plane tree on one of the city's lovely greens to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the RNLI.

A stage suit generously given by the singer Tom Jones to Rhyl and District branch for fund raising has made £50 for the RNLI.

Branch efforts at Croydon raised £5,360.08 in the year 1974/75. Of this amount almost £700 came from the annual autumn lifeboat fair organised by Mrs Iris M. Betson. Mrs Betson, whose son Steven is the motor mechanic at Walton and Frinton station, makes a large proportion of the goods for sale at the fair herself: hundreds of pounds of preserves and hundreds of knitted and fancy goods; she even takes orders for knitting, to be delivered next time over, when she and her husband, Bill, visit their daughter in Canada each alternate year.

In 1975, for the second year, a sponsored walk was organised by Schermuly; the walkers were joined by five colleagues from their sister company, Pains-Wessex. Sponsorship money, together with a donation, amounted to £500 for the RNLI.

W. J. Griffiths and his son, who is licensee of the Prince of Wales Hotel at Aberaeron, have presented a cheque to the RNLI for £500 raised from the profits of a tote; they plan to continue to run the tote for the benefit of the lifeboat service.

Lawrenny Yacht Club first decided to help the RNLI in 1973 when, as a result of stalls on its regatta day, £150 was raised. In 1974 the regatta was enlarged with sideshows, stalls and a barbecue, and £500 was raised. In 1975 W. J.

Barry, the commodore, and his committee made a change; they organised a dance at the Double Diamond Club, Caerphilly. Held in August, it was attended by many rugby personalities including Barry John, the former Welsh and Lions international player. As a result, a cheque for £1,300 was presented by the vice-commodore, Geoffrey Ashe, to Admiral Sir Peter Compston, a member of the Committee of Management, at the South Wales District Conference on November 5..