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The Governor-General of New Zealand to the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs

Your telegram of 19 February (No. 291). His Majesty's Government in New Zealand assume that the apportionment suggested is that all costs of the units payable outside New Zealand, other than pay and allowances to the officers and men and transportation from and back to New Zealand, will be borne by the United Kingdom Government, and that such part of the pay and allowances as are payable overseas, together with transportation costs, will come within the general financial arrangements made with the United Kingdom Government for finance on loan basis for the maintenance of New Zealand forces overseas. If these assumptions are correct the suggested arrangements are agreed to.