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(15.) To purchase, lease, hire, manufacture, or otherwise acquire all plant, machinery, apparatus, horses, bullocks, wagons, engines, steam and other vessels, appliances, and materials necessary or convenient for the purposes of the company, and to use and employ the same. (16.) To carry on any other business or businesses which may seem to the directors or the company capable of being conveniently or profitably carried on in connection with any of the objects for which the company is established, or which may seem as aforesaid calculated directly or indirectly to enhance the value of any part of the company's undertaking, assets, property, or rights. (17.) To acquire and undertake the whole or any part of the business, goodwill, assets, property, rights, or undertaking of any person, firm, or company carrying on or having power to carry on any business which this company is authorized to carry on by any specific or general clause of this memorandum, expressly or by implication, and as part or whole of the consideration therefor to undertake all or any of the liabilities of such person, firm, or company, and to give or accept by way of consideration for any of the acts or things aforesaid, or for anything acquired as aforesaid, any cash, shares, debentures, or securities that may be agreed upon. (18.) Generally to purchase, to take on lease or in exchange, hire, or otherwise acquire any real and personal property, and any rights or privileges which the company may think necessary or convenient for the purposes of its business or businesses, and in particular any land, buildings, easements, rights-of-way, restrictive covenants, machinery, plant, and stock-in-trade. (19.) To subscribe or apply for, and take or acquire by purchase or otherwise, and hold, shares or debentures or securities of or other interests in any other company having objects, whether primary or ancillary, altogether or in part similar to any of the objects of this company, or carrying on any business or established or empowered to carry on any business which this company is empowered by any specific or general clause of this memorandum or by implication to acquire, undertake, or carry on. (20.) To apply for, purchase, or otherwise acquire and protect or renew, or join with any other person or company in so doing, whether in the Colony of New Zealand or in any part of the world, any patents, brevets patent rights, protections, licenses, concessions, methods, or secrets of manufacture and the like conferring any exclusive or non-exclusive or limited right to use, or any secret or other information as to any invention which may seem to this company capable of being used, for any of the purposes of the company, or the acquisition of which may seem to this company calculated to directly or indirectly benefit this company, and to use, exercise, develop, manufacture under or grant licenses or privileges in respect of or otherwise turn to account the property, rights, or information so acquired, and to expend money in experimentini; upon or seeking to improve any patent rights, methods, or inventions which the company may acquire or propose to acquire. (21.) To enter into any partnership, or into any arrangement for sharing profits, or for cooperation, or for limiting competition, or for mutual assistance, or for union of interests, joint adventure, reciprocal concession, or otherwise, with any firm, person, or company having objects, whether primary or ancillary, altogether or in part similar to those of this company, or engaged in or carrying on, or established for the purposes of carrying on or empowered to carry on, any business or transaction which this company is authorized by any specific or general clause of this memorandum expressly or by implication to carry on or engage in, or any business, transaction, venture, or undertaking which may seem to this company capable of directly or indirectly benefiting this company.* (22.) To amalgamate with any other company having objects or powers, whether primarj or ancillary, altogether or in part similar to those of this company, and to give or accept by way of consideration for such amalgamation arty payment of cash, or any agreement for periodical payments of cash, secured or unsecured, shares wholly or partly paid up or with liability for the full nominal value thereof, stocks, bonds, obligations, debentures, debenture stock, scrip, or securities of any person, company, or corporation, and whether of the company or corporation with which such amalgamation is effected or not. (23.) To acquire or obtain from or make any arrangement with any government or authority, supreme, municipal, local, or otherwise, or any corporation, company, or person, for any authority, right, privilege, concession, contract, or chattel which this company may think it desirable to obtain, or which may seem to this company conducive to any of the objects of this company, and to accept, make payments under, carry out, exercise, and comply with any such arrangement, authority, right, privilege, concession, contract, or charter. (24.) To sell, lease, exchange, bail, grant licenses in respect of, or otherwise deal with or dispose of the company's undertaking or any part thereof, or any property or interest in any property, rights, concessions, or privileges belonging to this company or over which this company shall have any right or power of disposal, either together or in portions,