The New Zealand and Australian Land Company, Limited, Act, 1877
WHEREAS the Canterbury and Otago Association, Limited (herein-after called the Canterbury Company), was incorporated on the twenty-eighth day of April one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, under the Companies Act, 1862, as a company limited by shares, having its registered office at Glasgow, and the objects of that Company, as defined by the memorandum of association, were the purchase of lands, whether freehold, leasehold, or of any other tenure, in New Zealand, and the improvement of s...