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 PARCEL POST AGREEMENT-NEW ZEALAND. March 3, 1933. April 24, 1933. For parcels for Alaska, 6 cents per pound computed on the bulk net weight of each dispatch. For parcels for Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, Samoa and Hawaii, 3 cents per pound computed on the bulk net weight of each dispatch. 3. In the case of parcels originating in the United States of America which are sent to New Zealand for onward dispatch to Tonga, the Administration of the United States of America shall pay to the Administration of New Zealand one shilling four pence for each parcel not exceeding 3 pounds in weight, one shilling eight pence for each parcel over 3 pounds but not exceeding 7 pounds in weight and two shillings for each parcel over 7 pounds and not exceeding 11 pounds in weight. 4. The terminal charges and transit rates above specified may be reduced or increased on three months' previous notice given by one country to the other. The reduction or increase shall hold good for at least one year. ARTICLE 11. A ccO'l.llTliing. 1505 1. Each Administration shall prepare quarterly an account show- AOOOUIItiD&. ing the sums due for parcels sent by the other Administration. 2. These accounts accompanied by the parcel bills and, if any, copies of verification notes relating thereto shall be submitted to the examination of the corresponding Administration in the course of the month following the quarter to which they relate. 3. Th-:. compilation, transmission, verification and acceptance of the accounts must be effected as early as possible and the payment resulting from the balance must be made at the latest before the expiration of three months following the date of the sending of the accounts by the creditor Administration. 4. Payment of the balances due on these accounts between the two Administrations shall be effected by means of drafts on New York or on Wellington, or in any other manner which may from time to time be agreed upon between the Chiefs of the Postal Administra- tions of the two contracting countries, the expenses attendant on the payment being at the charge of the indebted administration. ARTICLE 12. M iseellaneous N otifieati01Ul. The Administrations shall communicate to each other a summary MlscellaDeous. of the provisions of their laws or regulations applicable to the parcels exchanged between the two contracting countries, and other items necessary for carrying out the exchange of parcels. These Regulations shall come into operation on the day on which d Etfectlve date aDd the Parcel Post Agreement comes into force and shall have the same uratlon. duration as the Agreement. Done in duplicate and signed at Washington the 24th day of Signatune. Apri11933, and at Wellington the third day of March 1933 ADAM HAMILTON Postmaster General of New Zealanul. [SEAL] JOSEPH O'MAHONEY Acting Postmaster General 01 the United States of America.