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THE wine and spirit trade is now feeling the benefit of improving tendencies. Wholesalers are finding increased demand from retailers all over the country.
The leather industry is maintaining its activities in the face of expectations. Many merchants are in the position of having sold much more than usual at this time of the year.
An indication of the way in which business has been growing is afforded by the survey made by the Board of Trade of factories established, extended and closed down in Great Britain in 1932. 1There were 646 new factories and 166 works extensions, as against
355 factories closed down. London, Lancashire and the Midlands were the districts most favoured. Thepsurvey is well worth reading.
Scotland.
It is significant of the improved conditions in the woollen industry that even Scottish looms are beginning to be busy and expect to be busier. Hosiery and underwear makers, too, are more active.
Inverness is to have a new technical school. Contracts have been let for the construction of 922 tenement houses at Blackhill for Glasgow Corporation.
North-east Coast., The improvement in the coal trade noted last week still continues. Further, it is stated that the outlook for the autumn is particularly bright.
Durham C.C. is considering the establishment of a mining centre near Easington Collieries. Bedlington U.D.C. is to erect 80 houses at the East End to rehouse persons displaced by the slumclearance scheme. The Sutton Dwellings Trust, Newcastle, is to erect 276 houses. Lancashire. 1 Makers of cotton cloth in Lancashire are moderately active, the bulk of the work being for the home trade.
There is a little more activity in the shipyards on Merseyside. Textilemachinery makers in Manchester are beginning to be busy.
A large new hotel is to be built at Liverpool, its approximate cost to be £200,000. A senior school costing £21,000 is to be erected at Huyton. Liverpool T.C. has offered plans for public baths on a site between Utting Avenue East and the corporation laundry.
Preston T.C. is to spend £20,000 on the resurfacing of cobble streets. Messrs. McKeand, Smith and Sons, of Wednesbury, are to erect tenements on the Huyton Farm estate for Liverpool Corporation. The Unit Construction Co., Ltd., 1, Robert Street, London, W.C.2, is to build 215 houses at Dovecot, 89 on the Huyton Farm estate and 14 at South Hill Road and Dingle Road, also for Liverpool Corporation.
1344 .. Heavy machinery in the woollen district is well employed, and some manufacturers are postponing annual holidays at the mills, which remark applies particularly to Colne Valley.
The iron and steel industry in the Middlesbrough area conlinues to be good. Orders for forward delivery are becoming more frequent, whilst makers of constructional steel are busy and the demand for scrap is good and is increasing.
The activity in the building industry, favoured by good weather, has increased the demand from the docks.
Darlington T.C. has passed plans for 92 houses to be erected by private enterprise. A cinema to cost £100,000 is to be built on the site of the Doncaster amusement park. Barnsley T.C. proposes to erect 95 houses on sites at Langdale Road, Pontefract Road and Burton Grange. Rotherham R.DC proposes to build 200 houses to replace others scheduled for clearance.
John McCreton, Ltd., West Terrace, North Ormsby, Middlesbrough, is to construct 160 houses on the site between Ayrsome Green Lane and West Lane.
Midlands.
Lace makers in Nottingham are still busier. Orders for the autumn are arriving and they are bigger than those of last year. The hosiery trade is better than it was this time a year ago, this remark applying throughout the Nottingham and Leicestershire area.
Most of the country factories producing boots and shoes are still busy, and Irish buyers are coming into the market again, notwithstanding tariffs.
The iron trade in South Staffordshire continues to improve and prospects are good, the demand for strip metal being most noticeable.
Birmingham is to have a new central technical college, the ultimate cost of which will exceed £1,000,000. Birmingham T.C. proposes to adopt and convert the Marston Green Homes for the accommodation and treatment of mental defectives, and the coat will be 185,000. Birmingham E.C. proposes to proceed with the junior technical school at Bordesley Green, the ultimate cost of which will be £23,000.
Kenilworth U.D.C. has passed plans for 24 houses in Arthur Street for Mr. Barber. The Kidderminster authority has passed plans for a large number of houses, including 20 for Mr. G. W. Williams, in the Hoo Road, and 12 for Mr. B. Denning, in Wolverhampton Road. Mansfield T.C. proposes to erect a further 124 houses near Bar. ringer Road, on the Ravensdale estate. Walsall T.C. has received sanction for the erection of 89 houses on the Proffit Street site, in connection with the James Street clearance scheme. Garlicks, Ltd., Fargosford Street, Coventry, is to erect a technical college in the Butts for Coventry T.C.
Wales.
The tin-plate trade in the Swansea district, although not quite so active as it has been, still provides ample loads.
There is considerably increased activity at the slate and grardie quarries in North Wales. The Cae Lb o Brickworks, at Brymbo, are to be reopened.
A bathing pool, terraces, etc., are to be constructed on a site on the Creuddyn Peninsula, between Deganwy and Llandudno. The Monmouth Grammar School, the Monmouth High School and the West Monmouth School, Pontypool, are to be improved and extended at a cost of £35,000. Carmarthen C.C. is likely to proceed with the construction of a high-level bridge across the Towy, at Carmarthen. Neath R.D.C. is going ahead with a slum-clearance scheme.
London and Home Counties.
The timber yards in London are busy, the building trade being more active than ever. One of the most well-occupied branches of local haulage in this connection is the conveyance of bricks.
The Bermondsey Leather Market is still lively and has many orders in hand.
H. W. Wedlock, Ltd., Barnehurst, proposes to develop land off Bedonwell Road, North Heath, Erith, and to build 41 houses thereon. Linton (Cambs.) R.D.C. is interested' in a water-supply scheme which will cost £62,000.
Upwards of 300 houses are to be built on the Southgate estate at the southern end of East Barnet Valley. Southendon-Sea T.C. has passed plans for over 100 houses, whilst Hendon R.D.C. has passed plans for 67 houses to be built by Messrs. Lewis Jones. High Wycombe T.C. has approved the layout of 320 houses at Desborough Castle, and is to proceed at once with the first 100.
The following is a summary .)f the housing plans of some of London's borough councils :—Bermondsey contemplates a rehousing scheme to provide accommodation for 10,000 persons over a period of 7i years, at a cost of £1,065,000, and it is to proceed with the erection of a four-story block of flats on the Harold housing estate, another on the Amos estate and one on the Millpond estate. Deptford is going ahead with the first part of its Bate Place clearance scheme by building 40 dwellings. Greenwich wants to erect 85 cottages at Victoria Road, Charlton.
Hampstead desires to develop Westcroft Farm, Cricklewood Lane, for housing. Honor Oak is to erect seven blocks of dwellings on the Honor Oak estate. Tottenham U.D.C. is to purchase 28 acres of land to be known as the Weir Hall housing estate, and Wandsworth B.C. is to proceed with the erection of 344 maisonettes on the Magdalen Park estate.