The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 88

Memorandum of Association of The West Wanganui Coal Company, Limited. — Memorandum of Association

Memorandum of Association of The West Wanganui Coal Company, Limited.

Memorandum of Association.

1st. The name of the Company is " The West Wanganui Coal Company, Limited.
2nd. The Registered Office of the Company is to be established in the City of Wellington.
3rd. The objects for which the Company is established are —
A. To mine for Coal upon the land already acquired, and such other land as may hereafter be acquired by the Company for Coal mining purposes.
B. To construct necessary tramways and roads, and generally to provide means for the conveyance of the Coal down from the mines of the Company to vessels.
C. To purchase, build and hire, or charter vessels, and to do all matters and things incidental or conducive to the objects aforesaid, or to the usual business of a Company mining for and trading in Coal, and to provide for the conveyance of Coal from and to any place in the Colony of New Zealand and elsewhere, and for the sale of such Coal at any port of delivery or elsewhere.
4th. The liability of the Shareholders is limited.
5th. The nominal capital of the Company is Fifty Thousand Pounds Sterling, divided into Ten Thousand Shares of Five Pounds each. The number of paid up Shares is One Thousand Four Hundred.

We, the several persons whose names and addresses are subscribed, are desirous of being formed into a Company, in pursuance of this Memorandum of Association, and we respectively agree to take the number of Shares in the capital of the Company set opposite to our respective names.

Names and Abdrbsubs of Subscribers. No. of Shares taken by Each Subscriber.
Frederick Augustus Krull, Wellington 50
William Hickson, Wellington 100
Jacob Joseph, Wellington 50
John Fortescue Evelyn Wright, Wellington 250
Edward William Mills, Wellington 250
John Plimmer, Wellington 100
Morgan Stanislaus Grace, Wellington 504