WHERE TO FIND HAULAGE BUSINESS
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CERTAIN branches of haulage are likely to be active or otherwise, according to the weather and, in most cases, hauliers who are in the coal business will be glad of a sharp frost or two. A little more seasonable weather will be helpful also to the hosiery trade, particularly the underwear section. Hauliers in Leeds and London should note that manufacturers of ready-towear clothing are expecting shortly to do big business.
North-East Coast.
The Cleveland Bridge and Engineering Co. has received a contract for the construction of a low-level sewer at Chiswick, involving laying 1 mile of pipe in a tunneL The coal trade is good, and it is anticipated that it will be even better, whilst there is ample demand for coke.
A new industry for the manufacture of matches is .being established at West Hartlepool, and the North of England Match Co., has taken over premises.
South Shields Town Council proposes building 608 houses at Simonside, at a cost of over £170,000. A contract has been placed with Stanley Miller, Ltd., 17, North Street, Newcastle, for extensions to the Newcastle-on-Tyne Eye Infimary, to cost £10,000. Plans are in course of preparation for a new bus station at Keswick, for Cumberland Motor Services, Ltd. Pithead baths are to be erected at the Morrison New Busty Pit, Ann&ld Plain, to cost £10,000.
Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson, Ltd., ViTallsend, is shortly to start actual building work on a dock to cost £200,000.
A new industry is to be started at Crook for the manufacture of paint, dyes, etc., from coal by-products and-, at present, a site for a proposed factory is being sought by the promoters.
Stockton Town 'Council has placed a contract with Messrs. G. Fordy, Brynholme, Durham Road, Stockton, for building 162 houses on the ,Sunderland Glebe Estate. Newcastle City Council is to construct new streets.
Yorkshire.
The reports of increased activity in the heavy engineering trades continue to arrive. An outstanding feature of trade in Sheffield, apart from that in safety-razor blades, which is still growing, is the enormous development in the manufacture of scissors. A combine has been formed and a large plant Ls being laid down, and the various members of the combine will be supplied from this depot. A new development is the manufacture of tinned-steel spoons and forks.
The woollen trade of Yorkshire is in better tone and important business in hosiery yarns is expected almost immediately from the Midlands. Rotherham Rural District Council is to erect 116 houses and bungalows.
Lancashire and Cheshire. s Inquiries for cotton goods, both at home and abroad, are increasing and manufacturers hope that, now the more
looms-per-operative question has been settled, increased business will result.
The Charles Walmsley concern, of Bury, has obtained an important contract for the supply of new machinery for the Bowater Mersey Paper Mills.
Messrs. Mills, of Stockport, are to erect a factory at Gersten for the manufacture of industrial alcohol.
Midlands.
It is anticipated that considerable purchases of hosiery yarns will be made in Yorkshire by Leicester and Nottingham concerns. In the nut and bolt industry, prospects are considered to be most hopeful, this applying also to the manufacture of kitchen equipment. Manufacturers of outer-wear are enjoying a minor boom. In the pottery industry. trade is brighter than it has been for 12 months, and a further steady improvement is expected.
Most of the business of the boot and shoe trade of Northampton and district is in day-to-day orders for small consignments. The manufacture of cycle handle grips is developing as the result of the operation of the tariff on this kind of goods, also women's hair slides. Factories for producing both these classes of article are established in Northampton.
The L.M.S. Railway Co., is to spend £60,000 in. modernizing the North Stafford Hotel, Stoke. A new school is to be erected at Doelea, Derby. Workshops for the blind are to be erected at Fenton, at a cost of £37,155, whilst 164 houses are to be erected by Stoke-on-Trent Town Council on the Carmountside housing site.
Scotland..
Dundee Town Council has approved plans for the erection of 200 houses at Graham Street. Houses to be built at a cost of £55,420, also a greyhound-racing track at Garthdee Road have been approved by Aberdeen Town Council. The soap works of John Cowan and Co., Ltd., Thornhouse, Irvine, recently destroyed by fire, is to be reconstructed.
London and Home Counties.
Hendon Town Council is to erect 120 houses and 46 flats on Beets Farm site, The Hyde. Chertsey Rural District Council is to spend £22,365 on road works this year, and Croydon Town Council hopes to be able to spend £73,500 on works of sewage disposal at its Beddington Farm. Slough Urban District Council is to borrow £224,900 for the erection of 608 houses.
A cinema is to be built at the corner of Silver Street and Fore Street, Edmonton. Woodford Urban District Council has approved plans for 70 houses. A new church is to be built in Day's Lane, Lamorbey, Kent. Bermondsey Borough Council is applying for leave to borrow £28,889 for the erection of new municipal offices. Lewisham Borough Council has passed plans for 234 houses at Burnt Ash Hill, and is to spend £63,250 on extending the hospital.
The Sundown (I. of W.) Town Council has approved a scheme for the erection of a concert hall at an estimated cost of £26,000.
Reading Corporation is to proceed with the improvement of the sewagedisposal works at a cost of £75,000.