MAIL NOTICES

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22513, 22 September 1938, Page 17

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 fee letters, 11.45 a.m.; guard’s van. 12.25 p.m. Next dispatch for Great Britain, per City of Winchester from Dunedin closes at 7.30 a.m. Thursday, September 22. To-day (Thursday), September 23

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 City of Winchester from Dunedin, close at 7.30 a.m.; late fee letters, guard’s van, 8.35 a.m. train By inland air mail, noon. Friday, September 23

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. Outgoing Overseas Malls

Mails for Great Britain, Canada (Eastern provinces), and Newfoundland (letters only),.due London October 10; also air mall 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 Maunganui from Auckland, close at 5.25 p.m.; late fee letters, 5.55 p.m.; guard’s van, 7.10 p.m. train Saturday, September 24. Second-class matter ap.d parcels Friday. By inland air mail. 9 a.m. Sunday, September 25. , Malls for Great Britain, Ireland, and Continent of Europe (second-class malls and parcels), due London November 3, also all mails for Central American States, Jamaica, via Panama, per Napier Star from Auckland, close at 5.25 p.m.; late fee letters. 5.55 p.m.: guard’s van, 7.10 p.m. train Saturday, September 24. By inland air mil, 9 a.m. Monday, September 26. Mails for 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, Tuesday, September 27. Mails for Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Falkland Islands, Bolivia, and Chile, via Montevideo, per* Port Melbourne alg 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, Tahiti, Japan, 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 L Parcels, 4 p.m. Friday: second-class 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 Francisco-Pan American airways service. Incoming Overseas Mails

American and Canadian second-class mail, ex Niagara, due September 23. Australian mall, ex Kaiwarra from Sydney, due September 23. Australian mall, ex Kakapo from Sydney, via Auckland, due September 24. English parcel mail, ex Middlesex from Liverpool, via Auckland, due September 24. Australian mail and English letter mall ex Maunganul from Sydney, via Auckland, due September 27. Air-Mall Services All letters and postcards for Great Britain, Ireland, and other British Empire countries served by the Australla-Slngapore-England and the AustraliaSouth Afrlca-England - air services, also air mall letters and postcards for foreign countries at foreign ah>mall rates In force from August 2. Next dispatch, per City of Winchester from Dunedin, closes at 7.30 a.m.: late fee letters, guard’s van. 8.35 a.m. train Thursday, September 22. By inland air mall, noon Thursday. September M . -Dug-London-October .8.- • ■Air malls 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.