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From the Empire Overseas.

Many gifts have shown the generous interests of British people overseas in the life-boat service at home. The Government School at Broken Hill, Rhodesia, which has about a hundred scholars, has sent £50. The Kenya War Welfare Fund has sent five gifts in eight months making a total of £370. 10. The Northern Rhodesian Central War Charities Fund has sent £9. An Englishwoman in Nigeria has sent two gifts, one of £25 in gratitude for her safe voyage from England, and then another ot £10 from the sale of home-made cakes. The Gold Coast War Charities Fund has sent £25. The Men's Patriotic Association of Bell Island, Newfoundland has sent £10. Members of the British Air Commission in Canada and Canadian aircraft firms have sent £118. 13. The Sekondi Masonic Lodge, Gold Coast, has sent £i. 13. 3. from a collection at a lodge supper, and the sale by auction of a steak and kidney pie.