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Exceptional Activity in Building and Allied Trades. New Factories Around London. Slight Improvement in Cotton
Exports
THE most active department of in dustry appears to be the building trade, and that activity is reflected in so many other businesses, extending even to those of carpet and linoleum making, as well as to the manufacture of furniture and hardware generally, that it seems that the haulage industry is likely to be particularly busy until, at the earliest, the beginning of next wi Liter.
The development of new industries and the erection and extension of factories in the outer district of London suggests that this area offers extensive employment for local haulage.
The Midlands, particularlythe Northamptonshire and Leicestershire areas, are active. It is, indeed, reported that there is a. shortage of skilled labour in certain trades. The heavy industries in the North, Middlesbrough, Sheffield, Lincoln and in Birmingham and Staffordshire still maintain that activity to which reference has occasionally been made of late. —
Cotton and Wool.
There is just a little more activity in the export side of the cotton trade and the prospect of a few more loads to the docks, especially for India. Imports of cotton from India appear to be on the up-grade. The home-trade demand for cotton goods, too, is more general than it has been for some time. Wool spinners are moderately active and inquiries for yarns, especially for autumn goods, are increasing.
Drapery, Hosiery and Clothing.
So far as the wholesaler in the drapery and clothing line is concerned, the principal feature appears to be a demand for small parcels. The hosiery trade in Nottingham is good; in Leicester, fair. Makers of curtains and plain net lace are busier. The continued improvement in the fine weather will beneficially a.ffect the prospect of loads for summer underwear and knitted dresses.
Timber and Building Trade.
It is expected that, in the early part of the season at least, the imports of all kinds of timber will be above the average. There will be an increasing demand for haulage at the various docks at which timber is normally delivered. —
Amongst the several extensive building projects of interest may be cited the following ;—In London, £160,000 is to he spent on schools and £300,000 on houses. A hospital is to be built at Greenwich at a cost of £50,000, and an asylum at Chertsey, to cost £430,000. Birmingham is to spend £25,000 on new schools and Blackpool 420,000 on houses.
Bootle is to have three new schools to cost altogether £70,000, and Brighton 150 houses to cost nearly £200.000. Leicester is to spend £1,000,000 on a housing scheme and Manchester £4,000,000. Sunderland is to build a new town hall, to cost £100,000, and Wicklow 470 houses costing practically £140,000.
Inverness E.C. has recommended acceptance of tenders amounting to £45,000 for the construction l of a school at Inverness. Pithead baths are to be built by Messrs. Wilson and Clyde,
Douglas Castle Colliery, Douglas, Lanarkshire. St. Catherine's Hotel, Lc-ichfyrieside, lately burned down, is immediately to be rebuilt.
Actual contracts placed include the following major items :—One for the erection of 48 flats in Hotwell Road for Bristol T.C. to Messrs.Sprackman and Son, Swindon., the price being £24,012. J. Stewart and Sons, Ltd., Tottenham, London, N., is to build a school on the Grange Park Estate, Hayes, at a cost of £13,768. G. Walker and Slater, Ltd., is to erect the superstructure and complete the substructure of the Guildhall, Kingston-onThames. The price quoted was £80,136.
W. H. Gaze and Sons, Ltd., 23, High Street, Kingston-on-Thames, is to build a school at Mount .Pleasant Lane, Hackney, _London. Messrs. Newby Bros., Southgate, are to extend the Nurses' Home, etc., ,at the Central Middlesex Hospital, Park Royal, the price being £24,268. Foster and Dicksee, Ltd., 84, James Street, Rugby, is to construct a hospital at Scarborough, at a price of £109,521.
Messrs. R. E. Narracott, Dunroere Road, Torquay, have been awarded the contract for the erection of the electricity offices and showrooms for Torquay T.C., at £36,833, and J. Hobson and Sons, Ltd., Newark Street Works, Nottingham, is to ereot 148 houses at Moor Lane for Widnes T.C., at a cost of £45,366. Jarrow-on-Tyne T.C. is contemplating the erection of a further 160 houses. Newcastle City Council is to obtain tenders for the building of 250 houses on the Fergusons Lane Estate, Newcastle. At Felling-on-Tyne it is proposed to construct a school for 400 pupils.
Boots and Shoes.
Hauliers should appreciate the fact that the weather plays a most important part in the shoe trade. A continued spell of dry weather such as we have been having tends to diminish activity, both as regards new shoes and repairs to old ones. The coming of rain would increase the demands for new shoes and for leather for repairing old ones.
At the moment the boot and shoe trade is patchy. In Northampton one or two concerns are busy, and in the country districts there is a fair number of loads available, especially by makers of sandals.
Chemicals.
There is a fair volume of business being done in most departments of the chemical induStry, such items as acetone, formic and oxalic acids and sal-ammoniac being in demand.
coal and Coke.
There is a fair demand for teal for delivery to factories and mills, also for coke.
Hardware.
There is a great activity amongst makers and suppliers of builders' ironware, edge tools, and nuts and bolts. The cutlery and plate trades of Sheffield are busier than they have been for some years. Makers of scissors are busy and the output of razor blades for the home market is high. There is a development of the production of chromium-plated goods, which are being used for a variety of new. purposes.
The prospect of the opening of the canning industry is having a beneficial effect on the home trade in tin-plates, which is particularly to be noted in the Swansea area of Wales.
London Docks.
The following is the nuniber of ships arriving at the London docks, wharves and jetties named, from May 11-19 inclusive :—
Docks :—King George V, 7; Royal Albert, 11; Royal Victoria,. 4; Surrey Commercial, 8; West India, 2; East India, 1; South-West India, 1; Tilbury, 7; Tilbury Stage, 1; Purfieet, 1; Mill3 ; London, 9; River, 1.' WHARVES :—Hays, 7; Iliddletansf ; Mark Brown's, 1. JEmes:—Tilbury, 3; Regent's Canal, 1.