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The industries are increasing, the chief being:—
(1) Beer, etc., brewing.
(2) Boat building and
pairing.
(3) Colours and dyes.
(4) Flour, etc., milling.
(5) Gravel quarrying.
(6) Market gardening.
(7) Rubber Tyres, etc.
(8) Pewterware & Candle
Machinery.
(9) Pharmaceutical
istry.
(10) Soaps and perfumes.
(11) Sweets, Confectionery.
(12) Wines.
(13) Sawmills and Joinery.
(14) Fire extinguishers, etc.
(15) Wireless apparatus and
accessories. Gramophones.
(16) Motor cars.
(17) Fancy papers.
(18) Aeroplanes.
(19) Engineering works.
(20) Disinfectants.
(21) Laundries.
(22) Linoleum.
(23) Carbons, Stencils,
Typewriter ribbons,
etc.
The district is rapidly developing in nearly all directions, the
great majority of houses that are going up being of the working
class type, valued round about £600 to £700. Great use has been
made of the Small Dwellings Acquisition Act, and the Housing Act,
particularly the former.