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and

Dare

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framework to which the constitution of any kind of Company can conveniently be fitted -

In the case of

Cha

Gas Company

so constituted the conditions under

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between the

which it is to commence & carry on its operations become obviously matter of arrange

of arrangement, after the Company

is formed, Company and the local auttiosities or other parties with whom it has to deal, quite apart from the internal constitution by which the relations.

of the Shareholders

to the Company and to each other. are governed. It is with the

latter alone that this Office has to deal, and it is with regard to it only that my official Experience enables me to offer any available suggestion.

If the purpose which the

Colonial

Colonial Government has in view will be satisfied by obtaining such con provisions as, if adopted, will forin a well constituted Company without reference to the nature

of

its busuies,

or to the conditions under which its operations core to be conducted I think those which I now send are as good

good as

that can

be found.

asy

If on the other hand the Colonial Government desires to be informed as to the conditions wrider `which the authorities.

of

a torre for district usually sanction the operations of a Gas Company within their bounds (whether embodied in the constitution of the Company or made matter

of arrangement after the Company is formed) that informatio will not be found in the Copy I transmit, and I regret that I have

not