MAIL NOTICES

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22510, 19 September 1938, Page 15

MAIL NOTICES

(Supplied by the Postal Department.) Malls 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. Plcton, 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 pun.; 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 Kairanga from Auckland, close at 5-i? p.m. Monday, September 19. To-day (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, Canada and Newfoundland (letters only), due London October 8; also airmail correspondence for foreign countries (special rates apply) served by the Empire air services; also all mails for Australian States, Ceylon, India, China, Malaya, Egypt, East and South Africa, Italy and Balkans, per Kairanga from Auckland, 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. Wednesday, September 21. Tuesday, September 22 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 Rangitane from Auckland, 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 Wednesday, September 21. Mails for Tonga, Samoa, Fiji, and Danger Island, per Matua at Auckland, close at 5.25 p.m. ' Outgoing Overseas Malls Mails for Vila and New Hebrides, per Southern Cross 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 26. \ 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. " Mails for Canada, United States of America, Mexico, West Indies, also letters for Continent of Europe, via Vancouver, also Fiji, Fanning Island, and Hawaiian Islands, per Niagara from Auckland, close at 5.25 p.m.; late fee letters. 5.55 p.m.; guard’s van, 7.10 p.m. train Saturday, October 1. Parcels 4 p.m, Friday, secondclass matter 5 p.m. Saturday. Correspondence will also be accepted for dispatch by air-mail services in Canada and United States of America, and also Honolulu-San Franclsco-Pan-American airways service. Incoming Overseas Mails American and Canadian mail, ex R.M.S. Niagara from Vancouver, via Auckland, due September 21. English letter mail dispatched from London September 3 and 4, and Australian mall, 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 at foreign air-mail rates in force from August 2. Next dispatch, per Kairanga from Auckland, closes 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 mail, 9 a.m. Wednesday, September 21. Due London October 8. 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. FURBY, Chief Postmaster.