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BUSINESS
Brisk Trade in Coal. Improvement in the Steel Industry. Unexpected Rush in Lace Business. Many Building Contracts
.pE bulk of the Christmas haulage • will have been completed by the time these notes appear in print, except for such things as poultry and decorative foliage. There will also be a considerable amount of last-minute requirements in drapery and clothing to be met.
North-east Coast.
The unusual activity in the coal trade in this area is continuing. The demand for household coal and coke is considerable.
Sunderland TownCouncil is to build 24 houses at West I4loor Road, Pallion, 84 at Commercial Road, Grangetown, and 154 at Marley Pots, Southwick.
There are prospects of more activity in the shipbuilding industry. Both Hawthorn Leslie and Co., Hebburn-onTyne, and Swan, Hunter • and Wighatu Richardson, Ltd., Wallaend, are making preparations for beginning constructional work on two destroyers. In addition, the former company has received a further order for two 2,000-ton sloops for the Portuguese Government. A large ship-repairing and engineering Contract is pending in the Blue Star vessel "Oregon Star," which is lying at Hebbak•n.
Tynetnouth Town Council is asking the Government • to approve unemployment relief schemes coating £23,000. Newburn Urban .District Council proposes building over 390 houses at a cost of £150,000. • Tenders are invited at Newcastle for building a new fourstorey sorting office to plansby H.M. Office of Works, King Charles Street, London, S.W.1. Middlesbrough Town Council is to proceed soon with the building of 212 houses, whilst Ashington Urban District Council has applied for approval of a £25,000 scheme for making-up Hawthorn Road and Alexandra Road.
Yorkshire.
Inquiries in the iron and steel trade are much more numerous and there is a firmer tone in the markets generally, according to reports from Middlesbrough.
In the woollen districts, machinery remains fairly well employed, especially in the spinning section, coping with the demands of hosiery manufacturers. There is a steady How of small orders far piece goods, both woollen and rayon.
The improvement in the steel business in the Yorkshire area maybe judged by the fact that the Park Gate Co., of Sheffield, is considering putting an additional furnace into operation. Samuel Fox and Co., Stocksbridge, is in a similar position and Brown Bayley'e Steel Works, Ltd., Stocksbridge, is busy.
Darlington Town Ceuncil is to erect 122 more houses at Hundens Lane, and Leeds. Town Council has under consideration a scheme for building 750 houses. Hull is to spend £62,000 on road-repair. schemes..
Lancashire and Cheshire.
Bolton is to spend £175,830 on its sewage arrangements and Southport is going ahead with the development scheme in the Ainsdale district, to cost 130,000. The United Construction Co., Ltd., is to build a school on the Highfield Estate, Broad Green, for Liverpool Corporation, and Messrs. H. Boot and SODS another at Goodison Road.
Midlands.
There is an expansion in the demand for iron and steelware in the Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Stafford areas. This is particularly noticeable in respect of small bare and billets from local steel works. In the hardware trade there is a steady, but slow, improvement and in aluminium hallowware there is a fair amount of business in the cheaper lines.
There is an unexpected improvement in the lace trade, according to reports from Nottingham, some unexpected trend of fashion having stimulated the demand. The hosiery trade in Notting! harnshire and Leicestershire is moderately busy.
Boot and shoe makers are particularly optimistic, some of them being of the opinion that business will now remain steady until June. This applies to country centres as well as to •the factories in the towns.
Trade in the potteries of North Staffordshire is better than it has been for some time.
Makers of nuts and bolts in the Birmingham area are busy, as also are the strip mills in that district.
The first part of the proposed new hospital at Edgbaston is to be proceeded with. (This is the building towards which Sir William Morris subscribed £52,000.) Nottingham Town Council is to erect a wash-house and baths and a clinic at 13ulwell, as well as a staff house at the City Institution, Hucknall Road. The total cost will be over 135,000. A new cinema is to be erected in Midland Road, Swadlincote. Plans for 380 houses on the Delves Estate, for Mr. S. Sutcliffe, have been passed by Walsall Town Council..
Wales.
Considerably increased activity is re! ported in the colliery areas. A scheme for the construction of a pavilion, dance hall and subsidiary buildings, on the Marine Parade, has been approved at Aberystwyth. Holyhead Urban District Council is hoping to be allowed to borrow £9,000 to build 28 houses. • East Anglia.
Skegnesa Urban District Council has applied for sanction to borrow £12,659 for the construction of a reservoir at Welton.
Scotland.
There are indications of improvement in the heavy industries on the Clyde, and James Howden and Co., Glasgow, has several contracts on hand, Some reorganizations which are going forward in connection with the • Scottish shale-oil industry should bring increased business for hauliers.
Aberdeen Town Council has approved plans for houses and other buildings to be erected at a total value of considerably over 1150,000. Edinburgh Educedon Committee is to erect a school at Granton Maine, whilst a dance hall is to be built at West Tolleross at an estimated cost of 115,000. A hospital is to be constructed in Paisley at a coat of 197,000, 96 houses are to be built by Greenock Town Council on sites in Carwood Street and East Crawford Street, and 262 houses are to be constructed at Falkirk.
West Country.
West of England makers of woollen piece goods and flannels are well employed. The Bristol boot and shoe trade is increasing in activity. Bristol Town Council has approved a scheme to build new municipal buildings on the College Green site to cost about £300,000.
London and Home Counties.
A new company is being formed under the title of Elstree Estates, Ltd., to acquire and develop a site just north of Elstree Studios, the scheme providing for the erection of 3,500 houses.
Three cinemas are to be erected in Worthing, one in Rowlands Road, another in Liverpool Gardens, and the third at the junction of Teville Road and Chapel Road. Developments in the London (Battersea) electricity undertaking involve the erection of a traitsformer sub-station in Grayshott Road. The approach roads to the new Leig:i station are to be reconstructed at a cost of 132,600.
Considerable extensions are to be made to the Royal Eastern Counties Institution, Turner Road, Colchester, by Messrs. F. R. Hipperson and Son, 6, Broad Street Place, London, E.C.2.
A pumping main is to be laid from Datehet to the Grand Junction Canal for Slough Urban District Council by Messrs. Hollow and Janes, Slough.