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EXCHANGE OF NOTES BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF NEW ZEALAND* AND THE GOVERNMENT OF NORWAY CONCERNING THE MUTUAL ABOLITION OF VISAS

London, 22 November 1949

No. 1 Mr. P. P. Prebensen to Mr. W. J. Jordan Royal Norwegian Embassy, London, 22 November 1949. Your Excellency, I have the honour to inform Your Excellency that in order to facilitate travel to Norwegian and New Zealand territories the Royal Norwegian Government are prepared to conclude with the New Zealand Government an agreement in the following terms : "(1) Norwegian subjects shall be free to travel from any place whatever to New Zealand without thenecessity of obtaining a visa in advance provided that they are furnished with valid Norwegian, passports. " (2) Holders of valid passports bearing, on the cover, the inscription " British Passport: New Zealand and, inside, the description of the holder's national status as " British subject and New Zealand citizen" shall be free to travel from any place whatever to Norway, Spitzbergen and Norwegian Overseas Territories without the necessity of obtaining a visa in advance.