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Activity in Coal Industry. Better Shipbuilding Prospects. Metallurgical Trades Brighter. Widespread Building Activity. Large Fruit Imports Expected
!WIFE present week sees the beginning 1 of the somewhat rapid tapering off of some haulage activities. The extra rush of Christmas work has, of course, entirely finished. Haulage of sugar beet and chicory is drawing to a close and is not likely to last more than another fortnight or so.
It is therefore heartening to learn that wholesalers in the clothing, outfitting, boots-and-shoes and allied trades, are anticipating considerable increase in trading activities early in the New Year.
North East Coast.
The coal trade is still very active in all departments. House coals and industrial fuels are moving steadily and all classes of coke are selling well. The Wearside Boatbuilding Co. has received an order for 40 fishing boats.
imports of pit props at Tyne Dock during the past week or so have been a little above the average, whilst shipbuilding shows prospects of better times. The Moor Line, Newcastle, has placed an order with thea Burntisland Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., Scotland, for two 8,300-toe cargo vessels.
Yorkshire.
The cutlery industry in Sheffield isdoing fairly well. As justifying the fre(meet reference in these columns to the safety-razor-blade trade it may be mentioned that Sheffield is now producing four million of these blades per week.
The popularity of home knitting has helped the Yorkshire woollen industry considerably and more work of that kind is expected in 1933. The Ketton Portland Cement Co. is making arrangemente to double the capacity of its works. The Town Council of Middlesbrough proposes to spend £78,000 on the Nile Street improvement scheme. The Urban, District Council of A_shington plans to proceed with the making up of Hawthorn Road and Alexandra Road at a cost of £25,000. A canning factory is to be established in Hull.
Lancashire and Cheshire.
Prospects in the Lancashire cotton area are good ; there is a large volume of inquiry. The home trade is expected, in the early part of 1933; to be of a hand-to-inouth character. It is expected, too, that the volume of business in rayon yarns will grow in the same proportion. The Town Council of Macclesfield is to erect 120 houses on the Moss Lane Estate. New premises for the Manchester Northern Infirmary are to be erected at Alma Hill, Cheetham Hill. Road, at a cost of £.150,000.
Salford Town Council is demolishing the old workhouse at Eccles NeW Road and is planning erection of 500 houses at Irlarns-o'-th'-Height and Buile Hill.
Midlands.
Edg,e-tool manufacturers in Birmingham and the Midlands expect improved trade almost at once. Makers of rayon materials in the Nottingham area anticipate a growth in the popularity of this material. Wool lace, another product of this district, also is expected to be the subject of a boom. Kettering Urban District Council is to apply to the Ministry of Health for sanction to borrow £41,025 for the erection of 123 houses at Piper's Hill, and for £12,800 for completion of a new road from London Road to Linden Avenue. Lincoln corporation is to build 40 houses at Boultham and St. Giles. Stafford County Council and Dudley Town Council are proposing to erect a technical college at Dudley at a cost of £94,000.
Wales.
Orders for tinplates are coming into the Swansea area in considerable quantities. It is anticipated that 1933 will be a good year for the metallurgical industries of this district. In and about Cardiff a number of additional works-is to resume operations. The coal trade in this area is good ;in fact, the demand is in excess of current supplies. Cardiff Town Council is to erect a further 200 houses at an estimated cost of £54,000.
East Anglia.
To the instructions of the housing committee of Henstead Rural District Council 177 houses are to be erected in Hethesett, Kesvviek, Millbartom Poringland, Rockland St. Mary, Saxlingham, Nethergate, Stoke Holy Cross and Wroningham. Scotland.
Scott and 'Co., Ltd., of 116, Hanover Street, Edinburgh, is to erect 14 blocks of fiats in Motherwell. Airdrie Town Council is to erect 50 houses on a site between Bell Street and Wellwynd. Glasgow Town Council is to erect 120 houses: 18 in Caroline Street, 36 in Edgefiebi Road and 66 near Millroad Street and Green Street. MacTaggart and Michael, Ltd., Glasgow, is to erect 308 houses at East PiIton, Granton, Edinburgh.
Falkirk Town Council is to build 308 houses on the Carmuirs site. Sixty houses are to be erected by Kirkcaldy Town Council.
West Country.
Bristol Town Council is proposing to demolish 88 houses and shops at Eugene Street, St. James, and erect 36 fiats in their place.
London and Home Counties.
Some large shipments of fruit from Jamaica are expected early in the New Year, particularly oranges, tomatoes and grapefruit. Thin P.L.A. is making special arrangements to facilitate discharge of these cargoes. M. J. 1-Vittall, a 132, Lancaster Street, Birmingham, is to build a factory on the Arterial Road, Palbaers Green, at a coat of 130,000. The London Hospital is to be improved. A new, works dermt is to be erected by Woolwich Borough Council on a site fronting Archery Road, Eltham. Barnet Council is considering the erection of 180 houses at Chesterfield Road. Gillingham is obtaining tenders for 136 houses at Hilly Fields. Two further blocks of dwellings are to be built on the BrockIey housing site. East Ham Borough Council is to erect 97 tenements at Storey Street, Claremont Street, Francis Street, Park Avenue and Gooseley Lane. Five blocks of dwellings are to be erected on two vacant sites on Wormholt Estate, Hammersmith.