At the end of January, 1940, a letter from Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Institution, was published in "The Times" calling attention to the work of the life-boat service during the first fire months of war. The letter was read in Cape Town by Miss Pattie Price, the South African singer and diseuse. She wrote at once offering to appeal in South Africa on behalf of the Institution. Her offer was gratefully accepted. She enlisted the help of the South African papers, which published articles by her on the work of the service; she enlisted the help of the Navy League of South Afrioa, which undertook to receive contributions; and within a yeat of the launching of the appeal the Institution received £1500 from the Navy League "as the first two instalments." Miss Price has been awarded the Institution's gold badge in gratitude for hef help..