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11l Other Financial Claims 10. (a) The Government of New Zealand hereby assumes responsibility for the settlement and payment of all claims against the Government of the United States or members of the Armed Forces of the Government of the United States, arising from acts or omissions of members of the Armed Forces of the Government of the United States occurring in New Zealand before June 30, 1946. (b) The following financial claims between the two Governments, arising out of existing arrangements in which the liability for payment has heretofore been acknowledged and the method of computation mutually agreed upon, are not covered by this agreement, as they will be settled in accordance with such arrangements : (i) Claims by either Government arising out of lend-lease requisitions filed by the Government of New Zealand in which the Government of New Zealand agreed to make direct cash reimbursement to the Government of the United States for the material therein requisitioned and at the time of filing such requisitions deposited with the Government of the United States the estimated cost of such material: (ii) Claims arising out of the agreement by the Government of the United States to pay the Government of New Zealand for the articles and services furnished by the Government of New Zealand to the Government of the United States not eligible for reciprocal aid, and for the articles and services furnished by the Government of New Zealand to the Government of the United States after December 31, 1945. (\c) In consideration of the mutual undertakings described in this Agreement, and with the objective .of arriving at as comprehensive a settlement as possible and of obviating protracted negotiations between the two Governments, all other financial claims whatsoever of one Government against the other which arose out of lend-lease or reciprocal aid or otherwise arose on or after September 3, 1939, and prior to September 2, 1945, out of or incidental to the conduct of