MAIL NOTICES

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22515, 24 September 1938, Page 25

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.: mail 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 Maunganui from Auckland, closes 5.25 p.m. Saturday, September 24. . To-day (Saturday), September 24 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, Canada (Eastern provinces), and Newfoundland (letters only), due London October 10; also air mail correspondence for foreign countries (special rates apply) served by the Empire air services, also all mails tralia, 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 • n m.: guards’s van, 7.10 p.m. train. Secondclass matter and parcels Friday. By mland air mail, 9 a.m. Sunday, September 25 Mails for Great Britain, Ireland, and Continent of Europe (second-class mails and parcels), due London November J, ■ also all mails for Central and South Arne- ' rican Western States. Jamaica, via ■ Panama, per Napier Star from Auckland I close at 5.25 p.m.; late fee letters, 5.5 j p.m.; guard's van, 7.10 p.m. train. By inland air mail. 9 a.m. Monday, September 26 Mails for Australia, per Waikoualti from Bluff, close at 0 p.m.; letters only 7.J0 p.m. Sunday. Sunday, September 25 For Timaru, Oamaru. Dunedin, Invercargill. and intermediate offices, per night express (letters only), at 7.30 p.m.; late 1 fee letters, guard’s van. for Dunedin and offices south thereof. 11.2 p.m. train. Monday, September 26 For Nortli 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 Mails t Mails for Vila and Banks Island, 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 Wednesday. September 28. Mails for Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Falkland Islands, Bolivia, and Chile, via Montevideo, per Port Mel- ! bourne 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, i also Fiji, Fanning Island. Tahiti, Japan, and Hawaiian Islands per Niagara- from Auckland, close at 5.25 p.m.; late fee let- ; ters, 5.55 p.m.: guard’s van, 7.10 p.m. train Saturday, October 1. Parcels, 4 p.m. Frlday; second-class matter 5 p.m. Saturday. Correspondence will also be accepted for dispatch by air-mall services In Canada and United States of America, and also Honolulu-San Francisco-Pan American airways service. _ Malls lor Chatham Island, per Tees from Lyttelton, close at 3 p.m.; late fee letters, guard’s van, 4 p.m. train, Monday, October 3. . Mails for Apia, Pago Pago, and Niue ' Island, per Maul Pomare, from Wellington, close at 5.25 p.m.; late fee, 5.55 p.m.; i guard’s van, 7.10 p.m. train, Monday, October 3. Incoming Overseas Mails Australian mail, ex Kakapo from Syd--1 ney, via Auckland, due September 24. Australian mall ex Kozan Maru from Melbourne, via Dunedin, due September 26. Australian mail and English letter mall dispatched from London September 8, ex Maunganui from Sydney, via Auckland, due September 27. Australian mail and English letter mall dispatched from London September 10 and 11, ex James Cook from Sydney, via Auckland, due September 20. English second-class and parcel mall, ex Remuera from London, due September 30. American and Canadian mail, ex Mariposa from San Pedro, via Auckland, due October 2. Air-Mall Services All letters and postcards for Great Britain, Ireland, and other British Empire countries served by the Australia-Singapore-England and the AustraliaSouth Afrlca-England air services, also ' air mall letters and postcards for foreign countries at foreign air-mail rates in force from August 2. Next dispatch, per Maunganui from Auckland, closes at 5.25 p.m.; late fee letters, guard’s van, 7.10 p.m. train, Saturday, September 24. By inland air mail, 9 a.m. Sunday, September 25. Due London October 10. Air mails within New Zealand close at the Chief Post Office. Christchurch, dally, including Sunday: North-bound, 9 a.m.; south-bound, daily, noon. F. W. FURBY. Chief Postmaster.