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All-round Improvement in Heavy Engineering. Retail Clothing Trade Seasonably Active Extensive Building Programmes. Woollen Industry Busy. Iron and Steel Business Bright
MAE news that a further consider.1 able decrease in the number of unemployed is to be recorded coincides with the receipt of information that the recent marked improvement in the heavy industries has been subjected to considerable acceleration. The iron and steel industry is improving at such a rate that "furnaces can hardly keep pace with the demand," etc.
On the other hand, we are told that the demand for industrial chemicals is good, that furniture and cabinet makers are busy, that retail business in the clothing and drapery trades is active and that cloth and garment merchants and mamtfactUrers are extending their commitments.
Scotland.
There is greater activity in the Glasgow shipyards, which is having a beneficial effect on the steel trade, which also calls for increased supplies of coaL The discovery of hitherto unknown coal seams in the Larkhall district of Lanarkshire is helping the mining industry. Pits are being sunk and it is anticipated that the work of extracting the coal will commence shortly. Shipbuilding orders on the Clyde have improved.
There is a good demand for knitted outerwear.
Stirling C.C. is to build abont 350 houses. The Glasgow-Inverness road is to be reconstructed and three bridges are to be erected by Messrs. A. M. Carmichael, 04, George Street, Edinburgh, for Inverness C.C.
Ayr C.C. has approved of a proposal to erect 625 houses at a cost of £207.000. Newton 11-learns is to build another 60 houses, whilst 48 houses are to be built at Bishopbriggs, Glasgow.
Leven T.C. is to build 68 houses. Dunfermline T.C. is to erect 52 houses at Townhill, whilst 32, costing £14,500, are to be built in Ayr by Mesfu.s. William Paton and Sons. Johnstone T C has agreed to construct 500 houses in the next five years.
The Motherwell Bridge and Engineering Co., Ltd., has received orders which will keep the concern tansy for several months.
North-east Coast.
Ship-repairing in the Newcastle area is active. Dorman Long and Co. is to reopen its Lumpsey ironstone mine. The Skinnigrove Iron and Steel Co.'s works at Middlesbrough are busily employed. The demand for semi-finished steel continues to be brisk, whilst makers of soft billets are fully booked up to the end of January. All classes of coal are now in demand.
Timber imports at the Hartlepools and Tyne Dock are moderate. Messrs. Austin and Sons. Sunderland, have booked an order for three colliers for W. Cory and Sons, Ltd., London. C. A. Parsons, Ltd., Heaton, Newcastle, is fairly busy.
Deggarts, Ltd., is to build new drapery stores at Gateshead to cost £30.000.
Durham C.C. is to build a new school clinic at Blaydon-on-Tyne, whilst at Gateshead negotiations are proceeding for the establishment of new brickworks. The promoter is Mr. J. Lewins, Birtley, Gateshead.
Yorkshire.
The production of basic steel in the Sheffield district is well maintained and, although the furnaces are working full time, it is difficult to keep pace with the demand. Nine Siemens furnaces are in commission at the Templeborough Works of the United Steel Co., whilst at the Rotherham works two are in operation and it is expected that a third will be started shortly. Overtime is being worked at many of the mills dealing with high-quality steel.
Reports from Keighley show that the engineering industry there is better than it has been for several years past. Business in the cutlery trade is very good. There is a keen demand for the cheaper lines.
The woollen industry in general is busy and the outlook good.
Selby R.D.C. is to build 26 houses and to proceed with a fire-year scheme for slum clearance. • Lancashire and Cheshire.
The Vulcan. Foundry Co., Newton-leWillows, has obtained an order from the L.M.S. Railway Co. for 50 steam locomotives and tenders, and this will mean employment for at least 1,600 men. The Christmas holidays at the Crewe works will be the shortest on record, because of the amount of work on band. There is plenty of work
going ahead in the ship-repair yard of Gammen Laird and Co., Birkenhead.
Stockport T.C. is proposing to construct two new service reservoirs. Messrs. W. and R. Jacob propose to Proceed with the extension of their factory at Aintree at a cost of £50,000.
Midlands.
Business in the iron and steel trade continues to improve. The supply of labour in the engineering trades in Derby is insufficient to meet enlarged requirements. Cycle manufacturers are busy, and prospects in all the metalworking branches are good. Birmingham steelworks continue to be active.
The volume of business in the aluminium-hollow-ware trade is increasing and shows a definite • improvement, as compared with a year ago. Good trade is also being done in household ironmongery and hardware. . The pottery industry, too, is picking up. .
Nearly every section of the hosiery trade is busy. Not for many. years has there been so much all-round activity in this industry. The boot and shoe trade is brisk.
Leicester T.C. proposes to effect a flood-prevention scheme estimated to cost £300,000. The Royal Hotel, Matlock Bath, is to be rebuilt at a cost of 150,000. The Avon India Rubber Co„ Ltd., proposes to extend the works at Melkshrun. It is proposed to demolish 28 houses at Waddington as part of a slum-clearance scheme of North Kesteven R.D.C., involving 231 houses.
Wales. . .
Conditions in the tin-plate industry continue to improve and compare most favourably with those of a year ago. There are signs that the improvement in the ewe trade will be maintained.
London and Home Counties.
Croydon T.C. proposes to borrow £55,441 for schemes, etc., to Mayday Hospital and £2,145 for alterations to Queen's Road Institution. Ealing T.O. is considering the erection of a new maternity hospital at Perivale, at an estimated cost of 135,000. Gee, Walker and Slater, Ltd., 32, St. James's Street, S.W.1, ia to build 40 tenement buildings.
Extensions and alterations are to be made to Dreamland, Margate, and the cost is stated to be about £100,000. Middlesex C.C. proposes to erect new university buildings on the Bloomsbury site at a cost of £100,000. A mausoleum is to be erected in Delhi Road, North Ryde, costing about £120,000.
A swimming pool is to he constructed at Lumps Fort, Portsmouth, to cost £50,000. Croydon T.C. is to build houses and flats at Windmill Road and is to erect dwellings in the Old Town clearance area.