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WHOLESALERS and retailers in the drapery business are still busy. Orders are being refused on account of the difficulty of making deliveries. Makers of cotton frocks, beach wear and sports clothes all over the country are working overtime in an effort to cope with the demand.
The timber trade is particularly busy, stocks are short, and the demand is increasing, because of the greater activity in the building industry.
The boot and shoe trade is equally active, and concerns making the highest grades of boots and shoes are so busy that orders are accepted only where there is ample time for delivery.
Yorkshire.
In the spinning section of the woollen industry, business in hosiery yarns is steady ; too makers are busier, some of them working 24 hours per day.
The heavy-steel trade in Yorkshire is improving. The Templeborough Works of the United Steel Co. have put two additional furnaces into commission. The Park Gate Iron and Steel Co. is busy.
T. Wilkinson and Son, Ltd., Rock. dale, is to erect 30 houses at Birch Road, for Wardle U.D.C. Pepper, Lee and Co., Ltd., lining manufacturer, of Wyke Mills, is to extend the factory. Messrs. A. Smith, of Northallerton, propose to build 98 houses on a site near Boroughbridge Road, Northallerton. A new street is to be cut in Bradford, through the central area.
Horsley Smith and Co., Ltd., Hedon Road, and the Kingston Creosoting Co., Ltd., Jameson Street, both of Hull, divide a contract for the supply of wood paving blocks for Hull T.C. Messrs. A. Hanks_ and Son are to build 50 houses on the Moorhouse Estate for Stanley (Yorks) U.D.C.
Lancashire and Cheshire.
The home-trade demand for cotton goods is fairly active at the moment. Business in the leather market is brisk, particularly in sole leather ; some tanners are so heavily employed that they cannot accept immediate orders.
A large new margarine factory bas been opened at Bromborough Port. A new factory for the manufacture of industrial alcohol is being built at Garston. Tillotsons (Liverpool), Ltd., cardboard-box manufacturer, is erecting a large factory at Sandhills, Liverpool.
A new dock has just been opened at Ellesmere Port. Scapa Dryers, Ltd., Blackburn, is to extend its premises. Manchester Corporation is to erect police and fire stations at Wythenshawe. Prestwich is to have new municipal buildings at a cost of i25,o00. G. EL Heywood, Ltd., Whitby, Wirral, Cheshire, is to erect 50 houses on the Danefield housing estate.
Midlands.
The hosiery trade in Leicester and district, and the outerwear and fancy trade maintains the improvement pre
viously noted. The demand for fishnet stockings has outstripped the supply and all available machines are running to capacity. There is a big demand for lace and lace frocks.
Better times are anticipated shortly in the pottery trade in Stoke-on-Trent and the surrounding districts. Northampton and the county centres of the boot and shoemaking trade are particularly active just now, some concerns having work to last for months.
The improvement in the building industry is reflected in increased activity on the part of constructional-engineering concerns in the Midlands. Makers of implements for road-excavation work are busy, as also are those who manufacture garden equipment. The enamelhollow-ware trade is brisk.
New reservoirs are to be constructed at Sawcliefe Hill and at Stonewell Plantation Ravensthorpe. Messrs. W. H. Hawthorne are to build 100 houses in Lower Eastern Green Lane. The Hertford Hill Sanatorium, Coventry, is to be extended, whilst additions are to be made to Walsall Hospital. The Leicester Loughborough and Leicester-Hinckley roads are to be proceeded with shortly.
The conditions in the tin-plate trade continue to be good. It now seems likely that the project for the erection of a beet-sugar factory at Milford Haven will proceed.
A new coal mine is being sunk in the Forest of Dean, by Henry Crawshay and Co. It is proposed to spend a sum of £15,000 on improving the sea front, Porthcawl. A new concert hall is to be built at Colwyn Bay to replace the one recently destroyed by fire. The Ystradgynlais R.D.C. is to build 100 houses.
Western Counties: A new factory is being built in Dursley, Glos., for the manufacture of cream separators. The Great Western Building Corporation, Ltd., London, will shortly proceed with the erection of 28 houses at Paignton, the first instalment of 400. Cornwall C.C. is to proceed with a section of the Penrhyn bridge scheme. Bristol T.C. is to build a road joining Mina Road to Muller Road.
London and Home Counties.
Manufacturers of cotton frocks and beach wear in London are particularly active. The Bermondsey leather market reports that sales are much improved.
A new open-air bath is to be constructed at Aylesbury. Darenth Training College is to have a hospital block. Messrs. W. H. Lee are to build 10 houses in Great Amwell. Deptford B.C. has approved the plans for 128 houses or Mr. G. T. Harman, of 90a, High
Street, S.E.13. Ealing T.C. has recently passed plans for upwards of 450 houses, and Barnes B.C. has approved plans for the erection of 177 Rats.
Portsmouth is to have a new swimming bath at Hiliea. The Tatchbury • Mount Colony is to be extended. Westminster City Council proposes to proceed with the new street between Curzon Street and Berkeley Square.
Chislehurst Estates, Ltd., 348, High Road, Kilburn, N.W.6, is to build 56 houses in Belmont Lane, Chislehurst. Messrs. J. Laing and Son are to erect 541 houses at Honeypot Lane Estate, Great Stanmore.
The new municipal offices for Maidstone are likely to cost 150,000. Romford and District Estate, Ltd., is to build 74 houses hi Richards Avenue and Recreation Avenue, Romford. Sideup U.D.C. has passed plans for 900 houses, most of them to be built by New Ideal Homesteads, Ltd.