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Haulage Business
RECENT news confirms the statements reiterated in these columns, during the past few weeks, that the trade of the country is definitely on the up-grade. Government returns show that unemployment is less than it has been for two years, whilst the building industry has reached such a stage that the demand for bricks has over
come the supply. This' .is, no doubt, Partly due to several big housing schemes which are being Pushed forward by various Municipalities.
The drapery and clothing trades continue to be active. Factories producing cotton frocks, beach wear; sports clothes and swimming. suits. ere work,. lag overtime in the effoit to cope with'
record sales. The problem of rush orders, according to some reperts, is acute, particularly in respect of transport. The demand for hides and leather is active, also that for chemical products.
. Scotland. ,
Confirmation of our recent reports that there is gradual improvement in engineering and shipbuilding on the 'Clyde comes from statistics that show that, at the end of last month, 4,000 More men were employed in the ship-Yards than at the beginning of the year.
Bate 0.11 Roads Committee proposes 1-ri proceed this summer with a road scheme, costing .1128,982. Claeltraan-nan County B.C. is to built a new school at Alloa. A new hospital for infectious and tuberculous cases is to be built in Elgin.
Aberdeen T.C. is to build 500 houses on a site near King Street ; in addition, it has approved plans for 51 houses nod extensive alterations to the. Royal Mental Hospital. Perth T.C. 1k 05 Contreict a bathing pool, and it has approved a site in the centre of. the city for erection of a cinema, restaurant and shops. The Royal Infirmary, at Stirling, is to be extended.
• North-east Coast.
With the advent of warmer weather, the demand for household coal has fallen off; The iron and -steel works are a little busier, owing to increased
activity in the local shipyards.
The Greyhound Racing Association, at Broughs Park, Newcastle, is to build two new clubrooms, and work is to start shortly. Two new einentas are to be erected. in Shields Road, Newcastle, by the Tyne Picture House Co., Wallsend, and Blacks (Byker) Theatres, Ltd.
Newcastle D.C. has received sanction to build a new senior school at Cowgate to accommodate 480 pupils, Messrs. Marshall and Tweedy, 129, Pilgrim Street, Newcastle, being the architects. Wallsend T.C. has aproved layout plans Submitted by the Battle Hill Estate Co., Ltd., Newcastle, for land near Churchill . Street, involving the construction of 222 'houses.
•• " At Sbaekton-oa-Tees, Mr; G. P.
• Stainsby, 25, High Street, has prepared ../dans for the erection of &or 80 houses on various sites in the town. Id the heavy-woollen districts, the mills are busierthan they have. been for two or three years. Spinners reTort substantial Orders, and there is a begianing of a revival of the demand for figured dress fabrics. The recently improved tone of the -engineering industry is maintained. It is a long time since the position of the steel and allied industries of the Sheffield district was so satisfactory.
The Park Gate Iron and Steel. Co., Rotherham, is developing .a. new in'thistry, the manufacture of tier slag for road-making, 3,000i tons of which are to be produced per week.
HerosWorth R.D.C. is to construct a large reservoir at Castle Sykrt, Ackworth. • Hall .Corporation is extending one .bf the reservoirs it "Cottingham.
--North Riding C.C. •preiposes ta complete the Sleights road and bridge schemes. and ,Miffilicsbrough -Redcar coast-road scheme. Bradford T.C. has recently passed plans for 393 houses to be built' by private enterprise,, also for factory extensions in the-Tong area.
Lancashire and Cheshire Bolton T.C. is to spend £17,626 on housing schemes, whilst Oldham is to, have a new town hall. Extensive alterations are to be made to the Norwood Road council school, Southport. The Lancashire Mental Hospitals Board is to build a hospital on the site of Hulme Farm, NITinwick. Midlands.
In Nottingham, makers of rayon underwear are busy, whilst the production of bathing costumes, etc., consti tutes a record. According to reports from Leicester; the sale of ,underclothing is the best for 10 years.
There is a proposal afoot to erect a central cattle market in Leicester Kesteven C.C. proposes to recondition the SIeaford Poor Law Institution at a cost of i22,000, Leicester C.C. is to adapt Bosworth Park for a nurses' home, Stoke-on Trent T.C. is to proceed with a slum-clearance scheme to extend over a period of five years, involving the clearance of 25 areas and the erection of 3,500 houses.
Leicester C.C. proposes to proceed with three road and three bridge schemes costing 1130,000, Wilson Lovatt and Sons, Ltd.,. is to erect a reception block and convalescent block at the mental hospital, Berry Wood, for Northants T.C. H. Boot and Sons, Ltd., Sheffield, is to erect 214 houses, ell Warley Estate, Surtethwick.
Cadbury Bros., Ltd., is to embark upon building schemes the total cost of
which is to be £196,000. Birmingham E.C. is to build a technical, commercial and art college. Leicester Corporation is to spend 154,000 on the completion of a wing for the colleges of art and technology, £33,000 on the .Domestic :Science College, is0.000 on the Wyggeston boys' school, and £11,600 on reconditioning 24 other schools. Birmingham T.C. is to go ahead with several slum
clearance schemes. "
Eat Anglia..
Boot and shoe manufacturers in Nor wich and district are busy. .Great Yarmouth E.C. has approved' the erection of. an .asSembly hall fit the Stradbroke Road School. Ipswich T.C., proposes to erect a public abattoir..
• London and Horne Counties.
The leather and hide market, at Bermondsey, is particularly active just now Warehousemen and manufacturers in London are experiencing, many rush orders for lightweight knitted outerwear., hat makers are busy.
Poole P.C. is' to .erect 47 heuses. at Stanley Green, and Ilickmaneworth U.D.C. is to construct 44 houses at Mill End. The L.C.C. proposes to spend a further £195,000 on the development of the housing estate at St. Helier. •