Thames Valley Railway.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4436, 24 March 1883, Page 2 (Supplement)

Thames Valley Railway.

A MBETiva of Directors of the Thames Valley Railway Company was held on March 2nd, at which were present Messrs Fraser (chairman), Murdoch, Speight, McDonnell, and Brodie. Following the confirmation of the minutes of l»*t meeting, a letter to the Minister of Public Works was read to the effect that the Company was incorporated on the 6th December, 1882 ; the No. of shares applied for in the Company was 13,455; tho amount paid up was Is per share ; and in response to the Government query as to what guarantee could be supplied by the Company, that the work would be carried out, the fact that an English Company was prepared to take up the construction of the railway on a satisfactory contract being entered into between the Government and the Company. . It was also stated in the letter that Messrs W. Fraser, B. Graham, and Bitso would wait on Ministers in Wellington. A letter from the Public Works Department read, acknowl-dged the receipt of information forwarded by the Secretary. The secretary was instructed to forward a telegram to the Government asking if the letter before referred to had been laid before Ministers, and what data wjuld be convenient to the Government for the reception of the deputation appointed to wait upon them. The agreement* of Mr Alley to give the land necessary for the construction of the line through his property was received and tke thanks of the meeting recorded for the grant. A letter was read from Mr J. A. Miller Btating that he had received a communication from j the deputy commissioner of stamps requiring a fee of £75, equal to Is per cent, on the capital of the company, aa an annual license fee, and that be had demurred to the payment of it; also, that the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies wished the company's name changed to that ie might ba more easily distinguished from another company with « somewhat similar title.-It was resolved that Mr Miller be asked to give his reasons for objecting to the payment of the license fee, and the deputation appointed to go to Wellington should submit the same to Government. Tn connection with tl c latter part of the letter, it was decided that the company declines to alter its title, as the enterprise had been known by its present name for the past ten years. The meeting was then adjourned until this evening.