MAIL NOTICES

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22508, 16 September 1938, Page 19

MAIL NOTICES

(Supplied by the Postal Department.) Mails will close at the Chief Post Office. Christchurch, as under:— Arthur’s Pass, Otira, Greymouth, Westport, Hokitika, and other offices,. Monday. Tuesday. Thursday, and Saturday, 9 a.m.; guard’s van, 10 a.m.; daily, 1 a.m.; also Nelson (letters only). Express goods train daily (except Saturday and Sunday), 4.45 p.m.; late fee, guard’s van, 6 p.m. Saturday, 5.25 p.m.; late fee, guard’s van, 7.25 p.m. Picton, Blenheim, Kaikoura, Clarence Bridge, Kekerangu, and Seddon (via Parnassus), daily, 6 a.m.; guard’s van, 7.55 a.m.

Ashburton, Geraldine, Temuka, Timaru, Waimate, Oamaru, and Dunedin, express goods, Monday to Friday, 7 p.m.; late fee letters, 7.45 p.m. Rakaia, Ashburton. Timaru,' Oamaru, Dunedin, Invercargill, and intermediate offices (expresses), Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 7.30 a.m.: mall van, 8.35 a.m.; Wednesday and Friday, 11.10 a.m.; late lee letters, 11.45 a.m.; guard’s van, 12.25 p.m.

Next dispatch for Great Britain, per Maetsuycker from Wellington, close at 5.25 p.m. Saturday, September 17. To-day (Friday), September 16

For North Island, at 5.25 p.m.: late fee letters, 5.55 p.m.; guard’s van, 7.10 pjn. train. Parcels. 5 p.m. Saturday, September 17

For North Island, at 5.25 p.m.; late fee letters, 5.55 p.m.; guard’s van, 7.10 p.m. train. Parcels, 5 p.m. Mails for Great Britain, Ireland (letters only), due London October 3; also airmail correspondence for foreign countries (special rates apply) served by the Empire air services; also all mails for Australian States, Dutch East Indies, Ceylon, India, China. Malaya, Egypt, East and South Africa, Italy, and Balkans, per Maetsuycker from Wellington, close at 5.25 p.m.; late fee letters. 5.55 p.m.; guard’s van, 7.10 p.m. train. By inland air mail, 9 a.m. Monday, September 19. Mails for Europe (except Great Britain and Ireland), letters only, letters and other articles for Canada, United States of America, Mexico, and West Indies, and yia San Pedro, also Fiji, Hawaii, Tahiti, Japan, and Samoa, per Monterey from Auckland, close at 5.25 p.m. By inland air mail Monday, 19th, 9 a.m. Secondclass matter, Friday, 5 p.m. Parcel mall for America, Fiji, Pago Pago, and Hawaii, Friday, 4 p.m. Correspondence will also be accepted for dispatch by air-mail services in Canada and United States of America, also Honolulu-San Francisco Pan American Airways service. Outgoing Overseas Mails

Malls for Great Britain, Ireland (due London October 25), and Continent of Europe (second-class mails and parcels), also all malls for Central and South American Western States, Jamaica, via Panama, per Rangitane from Auckland. close at 5.25 p.m.; late fee letters, 5,55 p.m.; guard’s van, 7.10 p.m. train Monday, September 19. By Inland air mall. 9 a.m. Wednesday. September 21. Malls for Tonga, Samoa, Fiji, and Danger Island, per Matua at Auckland, close at 5.25 p.m. Tuesday, September 20. Mails for Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay. Uruguay, and Falkland Islands, Bolivia, and Chile, via Montevideo, per Port Melbourne at Lyttelton, close at 3 p.m. Thursday, September 29. Incoming Overseas Mails

English letter mail and Australian mail, ex Maunganui from Sydney, due September 17. ~ _ _ American and Canadian mail, ex R.M.S. Niagara from Vancouver, via Auckland, due September 21. , . , English letter mail and Australian mail, ex Monterey from Sydney, via Auckland, due September 21. Air-Mail Services All letters and postcards for Great Britain, Ireland, and other British Empire countries served by the Australla-Slngapore-England and the AustraliaSouth Africa-England air services, also air mail letters and postcards for foreign countries afeforeign air-mail rates In force from August 2. Next dispatch, per Maetsuycker from Wellington, closes at 5.25 p.m.; late fee letters, 5.55 p.m.; guard s van, 7.10 p.m. train, Saturday, September 17 By inland air mail, 9 a.m. Monday, September 19. Due London October 3. Air mails within New Zealand close at the Chief Post Office. Christchurch., daily, including Sunday: North-bound, 9 a.m.; south-bound, daily, noon. Ft W. FURBY, Chief Postmaster.

RAILWAY TIMETABLE

Express Trains Leave Christchurch

For Invercargill—B.3s a.m. Tuesday, Wednesday. Thursday, Friday, Saturday; 112 p.m. Sunday (connects with Invercargill train at Dunedin). For Dunedin—B.3s a.m. dally (except Sunday): 12.25 p.m. Wednesday and Friday; 11.2 p.m. Sunday. . .. For Greymouth and Hokitika—2.2o a.m. daily (except Sunday): 10 a.m. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday. Saturday. For Parnassus —7.55, a.m. dally (except Simday^ive^den— 8.45 a.m. daily (except Sl For a3 Waiau—8.45 am. Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, Express Trains Arrive Christchurch

From Invercargill—7.18 a.m. JMonday: 7.26 pm. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. „ J From Dunedin—7.lß a.m, Monday; 5.10 p.m. Monday. Wednesday, Friday; 7.26 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. , _ * _ From Greymouth and Hokitika—s pm. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday; 10.23 p.m. daily (except Sunday). From Parnassus —5.51 pm. daily (except Sunday). From Culverden—s.sl pm. dally (except Sunday). _ , _ From Waiau—s.sl pm. Tuesday, Thursday. Saturday. Passenger train, connecting with steamer express, leaves Christchurch for Lyttelton at 7.10 p.m. Airways Time-table

Passenger aeroplane leaves Christchurch aerodrome: For Blenheim, Nelson, Wellington, Palmerston North, Napier. Gisborne. New Plymouth, Auckland, dally, 10.5 a.m.; for Dunedin, daily, 1.5- p.m.