MAIL NOTICES

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22520, 30 September 1938, Page 21

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, arid 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. t \ 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 Awatea from Wellington, closes 5.25 p.m. Tuesday, October 4. •To-day (Friday), September 30 For North Island, at 5.25 p.m.; late fee letters, 5.55 p.m.; guard's van, 7.10 p.m. train. Farcels, 5 p.m. ■■'",'■« Mails for Great Britain, Ireland, Canada (Eastern Provinces). Newfoundland, Australia, and East (letters only), due London October 13: also air-mail correspondence for foreign countries (special rates apply) served by Empire air. services, close by inland air mail, 9 a.m. Saturday; October !■■■>" 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 Canada, United States of America, Mexico, West Indies, also letters tor Continent of Europe, via Vancouver, also Fiji, Fanning Island. Tahiti 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. Parcels, 4 p.m. Friday; second-class matter, 5 p.m. Saturday. I 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. Mails for Japan and New Caledonia, per Kozan Maru 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. Monday, October 3. Outgoing Overseas Malls Mails for Apia. Pago.Pago, and Niue Island, per Maui Pomare from Wellington, close at 5.25 p.m.; late fee, 5.55 p.m.; guard's van, 7.10 p.m. train Monday, October 3. By inland air mail 9 a.m. Tuesday, October 4. ..-■'. Mails for Great Britain and Ireland; Canada and Newfoundland (letters only), due London October 20; also air mail correspondence' for- foreign countries (special rates apply), served by the Empire air services, also all malls for Australia, Ceylon, India, China. Japan, Malaya, Egypt. East and South Africa. Italy and Balkans, per Awatea from Wellington, close at 5.25 p.m.; late fee letters, 5.55 p.m.; guard's van, 7.10 p.m. train Tuesday, October 4. By inland air mall, 9 a.m. Wednesday, October 5. Mails for Great Britain, Ireland and Europe, due 'London November 8- (second-class-mails and parcels only), via Montevideo; also Argentina, Brazil. Paraguay, Uruguay. Falkland Islands, Bolivia, and Chile, per Port Melbourne at Lyttelton. close at 7 a.m.; late fee letters, guard's van, 7.55 a.m. train, Tuesday, October 4. Mails for Chatham Islands, per Tees from Lyttelton, close at 9 a.m.; late fee letters guard's van, 10 a.m. train, Wednesday. October 5. Mails for Cook Islands, Tonga, Samoa, and Fiji, per Matua 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 8. By inland air mall 9 a.m. Monday, October 10. Mails for Great Britain, Ireland, and Continent of Europe (second-class mails and parcels), due London November 16: also all mails for Central and South American Western States, Jamaica, Pitcairn Island, via Panama, per Tamaroa • from Auckland, close at 525 pjn.; late fee letters, 5.55 p.m.; guard's van, 7.10 p.m. train Tuesday, October 11. Incoming Overseas Malls Australian mall and English letter mail dispatched from London September 10 and 11. ex James Cook from Sydney, via Auckland, due September 30. 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. Australian mail, ex Maunganul from Sydney, due October 5. 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 Africa-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 Awatea from Wellington, closes at 8.25 p.m.; late fee letters, 5.55 p.m.; guard's van, 7.10 p.m. train Tuesday, October 4. By inland air mail, 9 a.m. Wednesday. October 5. Due London October 30. Air mails within New Zealand close at the Chief Post Office, Christchurch, daily, including Sunday: North-bound, 9 a.m.; south-bound, dally, noon. F. W. FURBY, Chief Postmaster.