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Trade improvement Continues. Heavy Industries Active. Textile Demand Increases. Footwear and Leather Business Bright.
Building Boom
THE state of trade continues to improve. The heavy indirstries appear to have received fresh impetus from the close of the holiday season. From Sheffield comes the report that there are more furnaces in operation and that mills and forges are working to capacity. Makers of electrical equipment are fully employed.
In Glasgow and along the Clyde, activity is well maintained, particularly in respect of the home trade. Black-sheet manufacturers are active, although there is not quite so good a demand for galvanized sheets. In the Middlesbrough area, engineering concerns have improving order books. In _Birmingham and the Midlands, constructional engineers are beginning really to feel the benefit of increased activity amongst builders of large premises.
Textiles.
The position in the cotton trade shows slight signs of improvement, especially in the spinning department. There is also a little better demand for cloth, chiefly from the home market, although India is making some extensive inquiries. The silk industry is quiet, but activity may soon increase. Rayon factories everywhere are busy. The woollen trade is beginning to feel the effects of the winter demand, which is also reflected in greater activity at those Leicester and Nottingham factories which produce knitted outerwear, Coal.
The reports from most of the coalfields are of interest to local hauliers, inasmuch as it is stated that domestic orders are now coming in freely, whilst gas and electrical undertakings are calling for bigger supplies than for some time.
Timber and Building.
The report from the London docks is that trade is satisfactory. The demand for joinery wood is steadily maintained, that for hardwood is fair and that for plywood is increasing. At the Liverpool docks the demand is maintained. In Manchester it is stated that business is "keeping up well," whilst the Hull docks are congested.
The state of the building trade is still excellent. Plans passed in August this year are 10 per cent, in excess of those for August, 1833. Amongst large works planned are swimming baths at Rotherham (£36,000); road works at Harrow (E52,470), and in Stailordshire (£115,729); a town hall, etc., at Sale (£30,000); 'office extensions in Sunderland (£47,000); and schools and school extensions at Brecon (£27,000), Cambridge (£40,000), and in Hertfordshire (£129,872).
It is proposed to erect 500 houses at Belfast, 500 at Birmingham, 330 at Blackpool, 1,000 at Leeds, 120 at Richmond (Surrey), 306 at Wellingborough, 200 at Weymouth and over 100 at Wakefield. Bradford E.C. is recommending the erection of a school on Leaventhorpe Estate, Thornton (433,000). A scheme is being considered for the erection of a bridge over the Caledonian Canal, Muirtown (£21,500).
Cumnock T.C, has approved the construction of 144 houses in Glaisnock Street. The proposed baths at the pithead, Brochworth Main Colliery, Doncaster, will cost £25,000. Plans have been passed for the erection of 247 houses,. etc., in Edinburgh, by ivIactaggart and Mickel, Ltd. Plans are now being made to proceed with the work in connection with the Paying Patients Home, Manchester Royal Infirmary (£95,000).
Messrs. W. Smith; Giistead Quarries, Bingley, Yorks, are to carry out various works in the building of 104 houses in Broughton Road, Skiptou, for the U.D.C. (£26,402). Messrs. W. Edwards and Sons, Audnam, Stonebridge, are to erect offices in Birmingham for John Wright and Co. (£57,000). Ea,die and Co. is to build 201 houses on the West Court Farm Estate, for Gravesend T.C. (£77,783).
A large hotel is to be built at South Shields to plans by Messrs. Page, Son and Bradbury, 67, King Street, South Shields. Sunderland T.C. is obtaining 'plans for over 900 houses, whilst Jarrow T.C. is erecting 160 houses. A warehouse is to be built in Westgate Road, Newcastle, for Penny Johnson. Ltd., by Messrs. E. Thompson, Dinnington Village, Northumberland.
Mr. R. Burke, 12, Grey Street, Newcastle, has prepared plans for 372 houses to be built on West Denton Estate, Newhurn. Premises are to be erected. at Newcastle by Newcastle Savings Bank, Ltd,. Messrs. Hicks and Charlewood, 4, ,Mosley Street, Newcastle, have prepared a development scheme for Craster Estate, Beadnell (Northumberland). Work is being put in hand at Stockton on the erection of a new £40,000 cinema in High Street, by R. G. Tarran, Ltd., Ryde Avenue, Hull. Lanark C.C. is to build over 600 houses (£238,450), Bathgate T.C. is to erect 112 houses on Baldordie site and Council Road, and Arbroath T.C. has approved of the erection of 96 tenement-type houses at Inclicape Park, Ladyloan. Troon T.C. is to construct 52 houses, Rothesay T.C. has approved of plans for public swimming baths (R21,500), in addition to a public hall. Hamilton T.C. has had plans passed for the erection of slum. clearance houses at Whitehill Road, Burnbank, whilst Prestonpans T.C. is to build 78 houses at West Loan. Motherwell T.C. has acquired ground at Meadowhead, Wishaw, for 136 houses, Lanark C.C. is to alter Bracklin Bridge, on the Lanark-Airdrie highway, at a cost of over £10,000, and has agreed to acquire property at 11-21, Clydesdale Street, Hamilton, as a site for the erection of county buildings (Z45,000). Burghead T.C. is to recondition the harbour (£13,250), Whilst Burntislancl T.C. is to build a swimming pool. ( £I0,000 ) .
Wishaw Co-operative Society is to spend £12,000 on new buildings, Glasgow B.C. is building a new school at CrcAthank (£45,000). Gourock T.C. is -to build an entertainment pavilion (R,10,000). Ross C.C. has passed the Provisional Order for the new bridge to be built at Dorpie (£300,000).
Boots and Shoes: Leather.
The boot and shoe trade is, like the motor trade, just feeling the good effects of its annual exhibition. In the Northampton area, trade is stated to be satisfactory, In Leicester more orders are on hand than for some time. At Bristol, the state of trade is better than it has been for a long while. London is in receipt of substantial orders. Rushden and district, where business has been quiet for some time, is holding its own. Norwich is busy and Wellington manufacturers of slippers expect to be making deliveries from now right up to Christmas, Similar reports come from the leather trade. In Runcorn, Warrington and Liverpool, a definite improvement is noted. In Bermondsey the demand is firrn.
London Docks.
The following is the number of ships arriving at the London docks, wharves and jetties named, from October 26November 3 inclusive:— DOCKS: King George V. 12. Royal Albert, 6. Royal Victoria, 6. Surrey Commercial, 5, West India, 2. East India, 2, South West India, 1.. Tilbury, 6. Tilbury Stage, 2. MilIwall, 3. London, 3. WHARVES! Hays, 4. Middleton's, 1. Mark Brown's, 1. Tilbury Jetty, 3.