INDUSTRY EXPANDS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 3 April 1929, Page 8

INDUSTRY EXPANDS.

IN SOUTH BRITAIN. MANY FACTORIES SPRINGING UP. LONDON, Jan. 19. England is rapidly changing. There hag been a yteady expansion of indusj try in the South of England a® opposed to the closing down and the temporary suspension of work in many of the industrial •centres of itli© north. The new industries, especially around London and tine south const of England, are of ,a, miscellaneous character, and provide employment for both men and women in an almost equal proportion. When statements are made regarding the vast amount of unemployment in Great Britain, it must be remembered that this is partly due to the immense influx of girls and women into paid service of all kinds during the: war. Thev learned then how to earn their own livings, and proved to he isufl'icientlv adaptable to be able to hold their situations after the war. In miany of the new industries there ate as many women employed as l men. Among the new iiidurtr ies around Jxmdon are those for the manufacture of motor car bodies and of hosiery works, india-rubber works and various food factories. In the buildings, for example. occupied by the British Empire Exhibition some years ago, there are now manufactured motor-oar bodies, collars, ice. oxygen and oxygen-making plant. As new roads are laid down, so new factories are built. 'Recently on a short stretch of the North Circular road six new factories have been built. . . • . There are also entirely new industries springing into existence. One of the most important of these, is for the manufacture of artificial silk, and factories for these products have been set m> in various parts of the country. The number of beet-sugar works also increases. , . liq Another notable change, especially marked on the east coast, and in the rural districts of Wales, is the way persons who kept their own ' ittle shops are elosng up.‘The small employer m En"land as elsewhere, is dropping out of "existence, and his .place is being taken E- highlv organised central esaro closing up.' The kop.ll employer in taWii.sbments.