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rilltADE generally is better every
where. The where. The beneficial effect of the improvement in the heavy industries is now being felt in the shops, and greater activity amongst manufacturers and wholesale dealers in drapery and cloth ing is one result. Incidentally, that improvement in "the heavies" continues. The near advent of Christmas is also making the clothing and allied trades busy. In many districts overtime is being worked to cope with the demand. The rayon industry is active and business in industrial chemicals continues to be good.
Scotland.
The shipbuilding trade in Glasgow is on the mend. The total amount of new tonnage for which orders have been placed in the Clyde in 10 months this year exceeds that for the whole of last year. Messrs. Glenfield and Kennedy, Kilmarnock, and Sir William Arrol and Co., Glasgow, have been awarded a contract for the supply of materials for the Gebel Awlia Dam, Khartoum. The value is about £125,000. A further five miles of the GlasgowInverness highway is to be constructed, involving the erection of three new bridges. The North British Rayon factory, Jedburgh, is to be extended. Angus C.C. has approved the erection of 100 houses, Huntly T.C. of 95, and Irvine T.C. is to build 200 houses at Quarry Road and Spring. bank Ayr Road. Glasgow T.C. la considering a scheme of slum clearance in connection with the Garngad district, and concerning 400 houses.
Wick T.C. is to build 146 houses, costing £50,876. Campbeltowo T.C. has agreed to construct 250 new houses. Glasgow Corporation is to erect 20,000 houses, 12,000 to relieve overcrowding and 8,000 for slum clearances. Old Cumnock P.C. is to erect 200 houses, whilst Saltcoats T.C. is to build 42. Victoria Infirmary, Glasgow, is to be extended, and a new four-storey building will be erected.
Harland and Wolff, Ltd., Govan, has nn order for a 13,000-ton refrigerated motor ship and a large motor-driven
oil tanker. The Fairfield Shipbuilding Co., Glasgow, is to build a coastal sloop for the Admiralty.
North-East Coast.
It is in this area that the improvement in the heavy industries is to he noted. The productiou of steel is heavier than it has been for some time past. The coal trade, too, is good. There is a proposal afoot to build a new high-level single-span bridge across the Wear at Hylton. Local authorities in Northumberland are agitating for the construction of a new reservoir. A scheme to convert Jarrow Slake into a deep-water tidal basin is being considered.
It is proposed to construct a road linking the Great North Road and Durham Court Road, for which two new bridges will be needed, and the cost will approach £2,000,000. G. Bailey, Ltd., 16, King Street, South Shields. is to construct 261 houses on the Daisy Hill site and 104 houses on the Byker Town site, Newcastle, and J. W. Braithwaite and Co., Back Whitfield Terrace, Newcastle, is to build 122 houses on the C-ambrian site.
Pithead baths are to be erected at Seghill Colliery, Northumberland, by Messrs. J. Huntley and Sons, Sunderland. Hebburn-on-Tyne U.D.C. is to proceed with the building of 100 houses. Washington (Durham) U.D.C. has placed a contract with Messrs. George McCall, Herrington Burn, for the construction of 36 houses. Stanley U.D.C. is contemplating the erection of 250 houses.
At Sunderland, Dunn and Co., a concern of manufacturing confectioners, is to build a new factory in Durham Road, the contract having been placed with the Ranken Co., Stockton Road, Sunderland.
Yorkshire.
All the woollen factories are busy. In the spinning section the demand is mainly for hosiery yarns, also yarns for dress goods and men's wear. The trade in fabrics generally is expanding.
The Vickers works, Sheffield, are to be reorganized and brought up to date, whilst £125,000 is to be spent on improvements to the landing stages and ferry service at Hull. A new concert hall is to be built in the Lloyd Victoria Gardens, Bridlington. Plans have been prepared for a new town hall for Darlington. Mirfield U.D.C. is to spend £40,000 on improvement of the electricity undertaking, Messrs. W. B. Cooper and Sons are to build 41 houses on the York and Selby Road housing estats, Leeds. Lancashire and Cheshire.
The silk factories in and around Macclesfield are busy, also the rayon manufacturers both there and in the Manchester and Bury areas. In the cotton mills there is a little more activity than of late, chiefly duo to orders from the Dominions.
There is a considerable quantity of ship-repair work on hand in the Mersey shipyards. Preston is to have new baths at a cost of £58,000. A textile firm are building a large new factory at Bispham. Extensions which are to he made to Manchester University will cost £200,000.
Midlands.
Many of the knitwear factories in Nottingham and district are working overtime. The dyeing and finishing trade is busy and there is a demand for more new machinery. In Leicester the hosiery factories are busy and so are those in Hinckley and, indeed, throughout the county. There is a special run on goods for the Christmas trade. Makers of rayon underclothing are busy and the silk trade is active.
The improvement in the iron and steel trade of Birmingham and district continues, and the demand for galvanized sheets is now reported as d fair." There is activity in the edge-tool trade.
Northampton T.C. proposes to spend £52,500 on public baths, and the site chosen is Camphill Square. Extensions to the Derbyshire Royal Infirmary will cost £65,000. Wellingborough U.D.C. is to build 102 houses: at Priory Road.
Wales.
Colwyn Bay U.D.C. is to build a conference hall, café and theatre at Rydal Garden, and the cost is likely to be £70,000.
West Country.
Wallingford ILD.C. has passed plans for 202 houses in Dideot.
London and Home Counties.
The leather trade of Bermondsey is good and there is a demand for solo
leather. Luton is busy on the production of the cheaper grades of hat.
A school is to be bulkon the Honor Oak estate. Lewisham, at a cost of £28,474. Kent C.C. is shortly to expend nearly £200,006 on new schools, to be built in the north-west of the
county. A pavilion is to be built on the pier at Lee-on-the-Solent, aud the town is to have a new cinema and winter garden, whilst Ealing T.C. has just approved plans for 326 houses. Romford U.D.0 has Passed Plana for 190 houses and Sonthend T.C. for 160 houses. Welwyn R.D.O. has approved Ohms for 24 houses at Welwyn and 36 at Woolmer Green. Yiewsley and West Drayton is to build 200 houses.