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(7.) To purchase or by other means acquire any freehold, leasehold, or other property, or any estate or interests whatever, and any rights, privileges, or easements over or in respect of any property, and any buildings, factories, mills, works, wharves, roads, railways, tramways, machinery, engines, rolling-stock, plant, live and dead stock, barges, vessels, or tilings which may be necessary for or may be eonveiiientlv used with or may enhance the value of and other property of the company. (8.) To carry on in connection with the above such other businesses as may be conveniently or profitably carried on therewith or may usefully employ or I urn to account or enhance the value of any of -the company's property. (II.) To acquire and undertake the whole or any part of the business, goodwill, and assets of any person, firm, or company carrying on or proposing to curry on any of the businesses which the company is authorized to carry on, and, as part of the consideration for such acquisition, to undertake all or any of the liabilities of such person, firm, or company, or to acquire, an interest in and amalgamate with or enter'into any arrangement for sharing profits or for co-operation, or for limiting competition, or for mutual assistance with any such person, firm, or company, and to give or accept by way of consideration for any of the acts or things aforesaid, or for any property acquired, any shares, debentures, or securities that may be agreed upon, and to hold and retain or sell, mortgage, and deal with any shares, debentures, or securities so received. (13.) To search for, get, win, work, raise, make marketable, and use, sell, and dispose of coal, oil, iron, clay, precious and other metals, minerals, and other substances or products on, within, or under any property of the company, and to grant prospecting and mining and other licenses, rights, or privileges for such purposes. (16.) To lend and advance money or give credit to such persons and on such terms as may be thought fit, and in particular to customers and persons dealing with the company, and to give guarantees or become security for any such persons. (21.) To enter into any arrangements with any Government or authority, supreme, municipal, or local, or otherwise, or any corporation, company, or person, that may seem conducive to any of the objects of the company, and to obtain from any such. Government, authority, corporation, company, or persons any charters, contracts, decrees, rights, privileges, and concessions which may be conducive to any of the objects of the company, and to accept, make payments under, carry out, exercise, and comply with any such charters, contracts, decrees, rights, privileges, and concessions. (26.) To procure the company to be registered or recognized in the United Kingdom or in any colony or dependency thereof, and in any foreign country or place. 5. The capital of the company is £1,000, divided into 1,000 shares of £1 each.

EXHIBIT 5. Meat-export Companies in New Zealand. Those marked * are buying companies. Company. Works. Auckland Farmers' Freezing Company (Limited), Auckland .. Southdown, Auckland; lloroliii. Hamilton. Ocean Beach Freezing-works (J. 0. Ward and Co., managing agents), Invercargill . . .. .. .. .. Ocean Beach, Bluff. •Borthwick, Thomas, and Sons (Australasia), (Limited), Christchurch .. •• •• ■• •• •• Waitara; Pakipaki, Hastings; Belfast, Christchurch. Canterbury Frozen Meat Company (Limited), Christchurch . . Belfast, Christchurch ; Fairfield, Ashburton ; Pareora, Timaru. East Coast Co-operative Freezing Company (Limited), Tauranga Whakatane (nearing completion). *Feildin« Farmers' Freezing Company (Limited), Feilding .. Aorangi, Feilding. ♦Fletcher, W. and R. (Limited), Auckland . . . . . . Westfield, Auckland ; Whangarei Heads, Whangarei. *Gear Meat Preserving and Freezing Company (Limited), Wellington . . . . . . • • • • • • Petone. Gisborne Sheep-farmers' Frozen Meat Company (Limited), Gisborne, .. .. .. .. •• •■ Kaiti, Gisborne, Green, T. H., and Co. (Limited), Christchurch . . . . Riccarton (bacon-curing only). Hawke's Bay Farmers' Meat Company (Limited), Hastings .. Whakatu, Hastings. Hellaby, R. and W. (Limited), Auckland .. .. .. Westfield, Auokland. ♦National Mortgage and Agency Company of New Zealand (Limited), Dunedin .. .. .. .. .. Longburn, Palmerston North. ♦Nelson Bros. (Limited), Tomoana, Hastings .. Tomoana, Hastings ; Taruheru, Gisborne. Nelson Freezing Company (Limited), Nelson . . . . Stoke, Nelson. New Zealand Farmers Co-operative Bacon and Meat Packing Company (Limited). Wellington ~ ~ .. Eltham,

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