MAIL NOTICES

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22509, 17 September 1938, Page 24

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 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.; mail 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 p.m. Saturday, September 17.

To-day (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. /i _«.♦_-« Mails for Great Britain, Ireland (letters only), due London October J; also.airmail correspondence for foreign countries (special rates apply) served by the Empire air services; also all mails »'r Australian States. Dutch East Indies, Leylon, 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 Bntoin and Ireland), letters only, letters ana other articles for Canada, of America. Mexico, and West Indies ana via San Pedro also Fiji, Hawaii, lanm, Japanfand Samoa? per Monterey from Auckland, close at 5.2 ci p.m.; late fee letS 0 . &£ temSer l£ 9 am. Second-class mater. Fridav. 5 p.m. Parcel mail for America, Fiji Pago Pago, and Hawaii. Friday 4 pm. CorrespoAdence will also be accepted for disVch by air-mail services in Canada and United States of America, also Honolulu-San Francisco Pan American Airways service.

Sunday, September 18 For Timaru, Oamaru, Dunedin, Invercargill. and intermediate offices, Per night express (letters only), at 7.30 p.m.; late fee letters, guard's van. for Dunedin and offices south thereof, 11.2 p.m. train.

Monday, September 19

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 (due London October 25), and Continent of Europe (second-class mails and parcels), also all mails for Central and South American Western States, Jamaica, via Panama. per Hangitane from Auckland. close at 5.25 p.m.; late fee letters, 5.55 p.m.; guards van. 710 p.m. train. By inland air mail, 9 a.m. Wednesday, September 21. Outgoing Oveneas Malls

Mails 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 Mail*

English letter mail and Australian mail, ex Maunganui from Sydney, due SeptemAme'rican and Canadian mail, ex R.M.S. Niagara from Vancouver, via Auckland, due September 21. ' English letter mail and Australian mall, ex Monterey from Sydney, via Auckland, due September 21. Air-Mall Services All letters and postcards for Great Britain. Ireland, and other British Empire countries served by the AustralJa-Slrgaporc-England and the AustraliaSouth Africa-England air services. also air mail letters and postcards for foreign countries at foreign 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.; guards von, 7.10 p.m. train. Saturday, Septembei 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. F. W. FUHBY. : Chief Postmaster.