Weymouth ladies' guild raised £700 for branch funds at its annual wine and cheese party in the Springfield Room at Devenish Brewery on April I . The Mayor of Weymouth and Portland, Mrs Joyce Litschi, presented an oil painting of Weymouth's Arun, Tony Vandervell, to raffle winner Mrs Lois Bricknell. With them are (I. to r.) George Lee, who first purchased the painting for £60 at an auction in aid of the lifeboats and then kindly gave it back to the guild for further fund raising; Mrs Phoebe Bury, chairman of the guild; John Lee, the artist; Lt-Cdr Barney Morris, station honorary secretary, and Mr E. W. Ludlow, chairman of Weymouth branch.

photograph by courtesy of Stuart Richman, Focus Press.