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THE outlook in the drapery and clothing industry is most hopeful,. and many concerns are making preparations for the spring orders, whilst the same encouraging reports come from the woollen trade. Manufacturers of leather are expecting a good year, several companies having already started Working overtime.
Great confidence is expressed in the reports from the chief industrial centres and this is particularly marked in the iron and steel industry. There is a steady flow of timber from the docks. In the paper industry the signs of improvement noted recently continue.
The British Industries Fair opens on February 19, and this should provide hauliers with considerable business.
Scotland.
Win. Baird and Co., has a big scheme of reconstruction on hand at Gartsherrie, near Glasgow. The output of marine engineering on the Clyde is much improved. DalIceith T.C. has approved the erection of 200 houses on the Woodburn Park site.
In addition to restarting work on the giant Cunarder, John Brown and Co., Ltd., Clydebank, is to build a vessel for the Commonwealth and Dominion Line, Aitchison, Blair, Ltd., Clydebank, is to construct two sets of triple-expansion engines for two new vessels. Messrs. Babcock and Wilcox, Renfrew, have received orders from Japan for eight large boilers. An order from South Africa for a complete boiler-house and four. boilers is worth over £200,000. Two large boilers have been ordered for use in South African mines and four for English paper mills.
. North-east Coast.
Reports from the coal trade are cheering. All classes of coal are in good demand, and there are indications of steady trade for some time. From Middlesbrough comes the news that three additional blast furnaces are being blown in., two at Redcar Ironworks of Dorman Long and Co. and one at the works of the Skin ningrose Iron and Steel Co. The coke ovens of the Redcar Ironworks have been relighted, and the South Durham Steel and Iron Co., Middlesbrough, is installing 22 new coke ovens.
Brisk building activity is to result in the establishment of brickworks at Larnesley, Gateshead. Durham County E.C. is to build schools at Shot-ton, Easington and Kibblesve-orth, whilst schemes for the remodelling of
existing schools are also being prepared. Sunderland E.C. has placed a contract with Gordon Durham and Co., East Boldon, for the building of a £30,000 scbool at Spelterworks Road, Sunderland. Darlington T.C. is considering a proposal for constructing a new town hall. Hebburn-on-Tyne U.D.C. is inviting tenders for the building of 50 houses. Tynemouth T.C. proposes to erect a further 216 houses.
Yorkshire.
A clothing concern in Leeds has engaged over 600 more operatives. The cutlery trade is in a much better position than last year and most Sheffield concerns have plenty of business.
Darlington T.C. has under consideration a rehousing scheme involving the erection of 91 houses.
Lancashire and Cheshire.
The coal mines at Poynton, Cheshire, which have been closed for several years, are to be reopened.
The Wythenshawe Committee of Manchester Corporation is negotiating with a number of concerns wishing to establish new works at Wythenshawe. A shopping centre is to be provided in the Pendlebury Estate, Gatley.
Manchester T.C. proposes to purchase land at Kirkmanshulme Lane, Gorton, for a rehousing scheme, and is recommended to approve the erection of 250 houses at Wythenshawe.
Midlands.
The hosiery trade has increased remarkably as compared with the position a year ago. Many factories are working overtime executing existing orders, whilst new business has exceeded expectations. The demand for women's outerwear is brisk. In the pottery trade, business is still improving.
There is a keen demand for semifinished material in the steel trade and some works are unable to cope with deliveries of billets.
A. W. Foster and Co., Lincoln, is to erect a canning factory at 13ardney.
Leicester T.C. is considering schemes for the erection of houses in the Redcross Street area, for extensions to the Leicester Frith Institution for the Mentally Deficient, and for road making, etc., for the Anstey Lane School site. Coventry Corporation' is applying for sanction to borrow £43,685 for building 150 additional houses at Stoke Aldermoor.
Wales.
A previously unworked area of an-, thracite coal has been opened up at the Tirbach Colliery, Ystalyfem, of the Amalgamated Anthracite Collieries.
West Country.
A corset-making company is about to open a new factory at Bristol, and 302 houses are to be built on the St. Loye's Estate for Exeter Corporation.
London and Home Counties.
Trade generally seems to be improving. A clothing manufacturing concern is extending its factory to nearly double its former size.
Barking T.C. is applying for sanction to borrow £44,000 for the erection of additions to Barking Hospital.