MAIL NOTICES

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22521, 1 October 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 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 Awatea from* Wellington, closes 5.25 p.m. Tuesday, October 4. To-day (Saturday), October 1

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 for 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. By inland air mail 9 a.m. Monday, October 3. 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. _ , . , Mails for Japan and New Caledonia, per Kozan Maru from Auckland, close at 5.25 p m.; late fee letters. 5.55 p.m.; guardls van. 7.10 p.m. train. By Inland air mail, 9 a.m. Monday, October 3. Sunday, October 2

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. trr.in. Monday, October 3

For North Island, at 5.25 p.m.: late fee letters, 5.55 p.m.: guard’s van, 7.10 p.m. train. Parcels. 6 p.m. 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. By inland air mail 9 a.m. Tuesday, October 4. Outgoing Overseas Malls

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 mails for Australia. Ceylon. India, China. Japan, Malaya. Egypt, East and South Africa. Italy, Balkans, and Norfolk Island. 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 (secondclass 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 mail 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 malls for Central and South American Western States, Jamaica. Pitcairn Island, via Panama, per Tamaroa from Auckland, close at 5.25 p.m.; late fee letters, 5,55 p.m.; guard’s van, 7.10 p.m. train Tuesday, October 11.

Incoming Overseas Mails *

American and Canadian mail, ex Mariposa from San Pedro, via Auckland, due October 2.

English letter and Australian mail, ex Maunganul from Sydney, due October 5. English second-class and parcel mail, ex Mataroa from London, via Auckland, due October 8. Air-Mail 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-mall rates in force from August 2. Next dispatch, per Awatea from Wellington, closes at 5.35 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 20. Air mails within New Zealand close at the Chief Post Office, Christchurch, daily. Including Sunday: North-bound, 9 a.m.; south-bound, daily, noon. • G. CLARK, Chief Postmaster.