SHIPBUILDING.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 294, 5 September 1908, Page 5

SHIPBUILDING.

A REPORTED REVIVAL ,OF TRADE.

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(Rec. September.4, 11.12 p.m.) . " London, September 4,

There are marked signs of a revival in the: shipbuilding and the iron and steel trades of Scotland and the North of England. • . , ■ ■

Forty thousand tons of new'shipping have been entrusted to Clyde builders within a week. '. "

< The fact that thore are big orders looming up was. indicated in the recent speech by ; Sir Christopher I'urness, Liberal member of the House of Commons for Hartlepool, aad head of , Messrs. ' Pnrness, Withy, and Company (ship- • . builders),' and of the 'TTnraess Line" of irt earners. ' Speaking at West Hartlepool, Sir, C. Fume S3 said that, owing to labour trooMes, orders for seven ships h?d been lost, as the result of his inability to guarantee delivery bya cer- * tain date. ' These orders, added Sir C. Fnmees, would bare provided work for tho shipyards and engineering and steel works, and employment for considerably more men than were now unemployed in Hartlepool and West Hartlepool. He hoped that the oheapness of money would . tend to hasten a return of good trade.