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Big Hopes for Canning Trade. Drapery Demand Slackening. Important Building Contracts. Boot and Shoe Activity Constant
MRADE generally is still on the up ward grade. The canning industry, already referred to in these notes, is rapidly growing in activity, and the sources of fruits and vegetables for treatment increase as the season advances.
The drapery and clothing manufacturers are experiencing a slackening of interest, although orders are still numerous, the diminution being in respect of the bulk of individual consignments rather than in their frequency. Makers of flannel trousers and sports jackets are busiest, but advance orders for winter overcoats, and for the materials of. which they are made, presage demands for haulage on that account.
North-east Coast.
Private enterprise is making great headway with the building of new houses and other dwellings.
The North Eastern Estates Development Co., Ltd., Newcastle, is starting -work on the development of the Bruuton Estate, Gosforth, Newcastle, where Provision is made for 250 houses. The contract for a new cinema at the Haymarket, Newcastle, has been placed with Messrs. T. Clements and Sons, Selbourne Gardens, Newcastle.
Tynemouth E.C. is inviting tenders for the erection of a new school at Chirton Farm to accommodate 960 pupils. Jarrow-on-Tyne Corporation has accepted the tender of the borough engineer, at 132,253, for the erection of 108 houses, whilst application is also being made to the Minister of Health for sanction to erect a further 100 dwellings.
Tenders are to be invited within a few weeks y Crarnlington (Northumberland) U.D.C. for the building of 40 houses for aged people. Blyth T.C. is to construct 200 houses on the South Farm . Estate. A new cinema is to be built at Byker Bar, Shields Road, Newcastle.
Yorkshire.
Sheffield steel makers report that the thprovement in trade, to which we have recently drawn attention, is being maintained. The rolling mills at Templeborough are working three shifts per day, and a new plant for the manufacture of steel strip is to be erected at Scunthorpe.
The heavy woollen districts of Huddersfield and the Caine Valley are not merely busy at present, but are anticipating continued and better business in the future. Spinners and piece-goods makers are also active. — Cutlery firms whose staple products are medium and low-priced are busy. The output of safety razors and blades has reached new records.
The pupil-teacher centre and secondary •girls' school buildings in Sheffield are to be converted for use as a junior technical school for boys. Pontefract T.C. is to develop the Wakefield Road site, and, as a pre liminary, is building 40 houses there. Rotherham T.C. is proceeding with no fewer than 11 slum-clearance schemes, involving the demolition of 260 houses. Sheffield, too, is putting in hand a similar programme, which is expected to take five years to complete, providing for the erection of 1,000 houses per annum.
Selby U.D.C. in conjunction with East and West Riding C.C.s have under consideration a scheme for the construction of by-pass road's and a bridge, which will involve expenditure approximating to 1150,000.
Midlands.
The iron trade in Staffordshire is improving, and a threatened increase in the price of galvanized sheets is expected to create a certain amount of temporary activity. There is, too, a better tone in the lock trade in South Staffs, whilst hardware manufacturers throughout the Midlands are experiencing a marked increase in business. Nail and tack makers in the Black Country are busy..
Boot and shoe makers in Northampton—both town and county—are in receipt of a constant flow of orders. The lace-curtain trade of Nottingham and Leicester is expected to improve, and the hosiery workers in Leicester report that trade is "fair."
Birmingham T.C. is to purchase 29 acres of land in Yardley, near the Little Bromwich Hospital, and to erect thereon upwards of 300 maisonnettes. Northants C.C. is considering the construction of a by-pass road at Wilbarston. P. W. Cox, Ltd. is to erect a new fire station
in New Ltd., Street, Birmingham, for the Corporation, at a cost of 1125,000..
Nottingham T.C. is to build 98 houses and flats on the Red Lion Street area, and Mansfield T.C. is to build 34 houses and bungalows, including 10 on Eakring Road and 18 on Chesterfield Road. Newark is to have an open-air swimming pool. Alcester (Warwick) R.D.C. is to build 40 houses-20 at Alcester and 20 at Studley.
Wales.
The tin-plate business is good. Messrs. Watts and Webb, Whitchurch, are to build a waterworks depot at Blaeltweir, for Cardiff T.C. Swansea T.C. has decided that the 1,100,000 bricks required for the building of the Tir John power station axe to be obtained locally.
• East Anglia.
The boot and shoe manufacturers of Norwich report continued good bum ness. East Suffolk County B.C. is to build a school at Holbrook and another at Ipswich. The bridges at Wisbech St. Mary and Thorney are to be rebuilt.
London and Home Counties.
The fur trade is experiencing a boom and the London markets are most active. Business in the Bermondsey leather market, although still good, is, at the moment, showing signs of waning. There is still a large amount of timber arriving at the London docks.
Edward Lloyd, Ltd., has just installed some new machinery at the paper mills at Sittingbourne, and when these are in full operation an addition to the variety of papers made by this concern vll result. • John Gill (Contractors), Ltd., 3, Victoria Street, Westminster, is to carry out works in connection with the new lock in the River Lea.
The L.C.C. proposes to spend 113,370 on a mental hospital at Darertth. St. Maryiebone B.C. is considering the erection of public baths at Shouldham Street. The London Pavilion, Piccadilly Circus, is to be rebuilt. Wandsworth B.C. is to build 348 flats at Magdalen Road, Earlsfield. whilst Twickenham T.C. is considering the erection of open-air baths. , Gee, Walker and Slater, Ltd., 32, St. James's Street, S.W.1, is to construct 71 flats at Crouch Hill for Islington B.C. Messrs. Enticknap, Bros., Wormley, near aodalming, are to erect 124 Louses at Twickenham.
Work on the new hospital at Brentwood has now commenced. The Cambridge Union Society is to modernize its club buildings at a cost of 112,500. Essex C.O. is to proceed with road-improvement schemes on the Grays-Southend road, the London-Yarmouth road, that from Shenfield to Mountnessing and batween Buckhurst Hill and the "Wake Arms," Epping.
Messrs. Bainbridge and Son, 139, Terminus Road, Eastbourne, are to build a school at Whitehawk for Brighton Corporation. Messrs. Baker, Hammond and Lane are to rebuild the Railway Hotel, Dagenham. Pavitt Bros., Ltd., Aveley, Purfleet, is to build a school at Rainham for Essex E.C.
Sir R. MacAlpine and Sons are to build a flour mill and silos on the western shore, Southampton. A wintergardens scheme at Cheltenham is to cost £150,000. A new " super " cinema is to be built in High Street, Rochester.
Scotland.
The black-sheet business in the Glasgow area is improving, as also is that of ship-repairing.
Aberdeen T.C. is to acquire a site near King Street for development as a building estate. A first instalment of 258 houses is to be proceeded with at once. Edinburgh T.C. is to build 128 houses at Niddrie Mains. Inverness. is to have a new technical school. Irvine T.C. is to build 200 houses; Motherwell T.O. is to erect 000; Paisley is to build 264, at Gallowhill, and Perth is considering the erection of 200 at Crieff Road.