THE PRESENTATION of a cheque for more than £50,000 by the Lord Mayor of Cardiff to the Duke of Atholl, chairman of the Institution, was reported in the summer issue of THE LIFEBOAT. It was the amount raised up till that time by the Welsh lifeboat appeal which is funding in part Barmouth's new 37ft 6in Rother lifeboat to be named Princess of Wales. Since then, the amount raised by the Welsh lifeboat appeal has increased to more than £60,000.

* * * A cassette has been made in Buckie which has already proved very popular locally. It contains a variety of songs and poems, all with a strong flavour of the area and the sea, performed by local artistes and the Buckie Choral Group.

It also contains a track recorded by Isla St Clair singing 'Ae Fond Kiss'. The cassette, price £2.50 plus 25p postage and packing, is available from David Scott, 21 The Yardie, Buckie, Banffshire, Scotland.

* * * The eighteenth RNLI national lottery, drawn by Franklyn James on Friday July 23, during Poole Open Days, raised £29,500. The prizewinners were: £1,000: G. C. M. Winn, Bristol, Avon.

£500: T. G. Shearing, Brighton, Sussex.

£250: P. J. Bath, Sherborne, Dorset.

£50: Miss Minnie Rubin, London NWS; A. Cooper-Johnston, Winchester; A. Safka, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex; J.

A. Cousins, Wakefield, West Yorkshire; E. B. Appleyard, Shelf, West Yorkshire; R. R. O. Barwick, River, Kent; D. Jefferiss, Exton, Devon; J. C. W. Sauvary, St Brelade, Jersey; K. J. Davies, Harborne, Birmingham; Mr Mario Weeks, Torquay, Devon.

The nineteenth national lottery will be drawn on October 29.

To meet the requests of a number of our supporters, lottery tickets for the twentieth national lottery to the value of £4 are included in this edition of the journal. Supporters should in no way feel they are obliged to buy all the tickets themselves. Naturally, however, if you can sell them among your friends we shall be delighted.

Over the years a number of supporters have requested a bulk supply of lottery tickets for each lottery and we are very pleased to supply additional tickets to those who request them. The address is Appeals Office, RNLI, West Quay Road, Poole, Dorset BH15 1HZ.

In order to clear any doubts, it is re-emphasised that the only people not eligible to purchase the lottery tickets are paid employees of the Institution and anyone under the age of 16..