MAIL NOTICE

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 117, 14 November 1939, Page 12

MAIL NOTICE

.^ te^ept Parcel, mails) will be closed d Office, Wellington, Cl. as

Mails close at Post Office, To Aro, C 2, and Wellington East, C 3,. one half-hour prior to the closing of mails at the Chief Post Office between the hours -of 9.30 a.m. and 5- p.m.' (Mails tor Auckland per "Limited" express close at these offices at 4.45 p.m.) For closing date of parcel mails, books, etc., see footnote,' ■ - '- • 'Overseas mails wilTbe'dispatched as opportunity offers. ... ; OVERSEAS Affi MAILS: KATES OF POSTAGE. Empire Air Services.—Great Britain; Ireland, Empire countries, Egypt, and Irak, Is 6d each Moz; foreign countries, special rates apply (minimum), is 6d each %oz. For further particulars, inquire at any Post Office. Australia and New Guinea.—lnternal services, 5d each United' States of America.—lnternal- services, lOd each Vzdz, "Other Air Services.—For particulars, inquire at any Post Office. Letters for Empire countries prepaid at the rate of 2d first %oz are forwarded by best available surface dispatch.- • . CHRISTMAS MAILS. .For America, Australia, etc.—lt 3s not possible this year to furnish closing dates of Christmas mails for overseas, but the following information is supplied:—Suggested time. of posting pot later than: America, November (last week); East, November (last week); Australia. mid-December. ' Early posting is recommended in view of the uncertainty of transit time. INLAND MAILS. • (Unless otherwise indicated, mails are closed daily.) BY AIR MAIL. Auckland, Hamilton, and Thames Districts.— Daily, including Sundays, 11 a.m. Palmerston North and District.—Daily, including Sundays, 11 a.m. New Plymouth.—Daily, including Sundays, 11 a.m. . • ■• -. -"• Southern Offices (except Ma'rlborough and Nelson District). —Daily, including Sundays, 10.20 a.m. Blenheim, Monday to Saturday.—S.3o a.m., 3 p.m. Nelson and Reefton. —Monday to Saturday, 6.35 a.m. .; Nelson, Greymouth, Hokitika, Westport, and Reefton. —Monday to -Saturday, 10.45 a.m. j Parcels for dispatch by air will be accepted, up to the time of closing letter mails. BY STEAMER. Picton, Havelock, and Blenheim, via Pictoii, per Tamahine (Monday, Wednesday, Friday J, 1.30 p.m.; C.P.O. lato fee, 1.45 p.m.; steamer, 2.30 p.m. Nelsou, Westport, and Havelock.—Letter mails for Blenheim and Reefton; letter mails for Picton (Monday, .Wednesday, Friday); also all mails for. French Pass, Monday and Wednesday, and all malls for offices in Pelorus Sound \ (Wednesday and Saturday); Monday, Wednesday, Friday, per Kaitoa, 4.45 p.m.; C.P.O. late fee, 5.15 p.m.; steamer, 6 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, per Matangi, 5.15 p.m.;, C.P.O. lato fee, 0 p.m.; steamer,' 7.15 p.m. Southern offices (except Marlborough and Nelson districts), Monday, Wednesday, Friday, ! per Raugatira, 6 p.m.; C.P.O. late fee, 6.45 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, per Wahine, 6 p.m.; C.P.O. late fee, 6.45 p.m.; late-fee bos at gates to Ferry Wharf, 7.30 p.m. BY TRAIN. Auckland and District.—Monday to Saturday, mails are closed C.P.O. 1.30 p.m.; late fee, 2 p.m.; lato fee railway, 2.50 p.m. Sunday to Friday (letters only), mails aro closed C.P.O. 5.15 p.m.; late fee, 6 p.m.; late fee. railway, 7 p.m. Thames, Hamiltou, and Main Trunk Districts.—Mails aro closed C.P.O. 1.30 p.m., 5.15 p.m.; late fee C.P.0., 2 p.m., 6 pm.; late fee railway, 2.50 p.m., 7 p.m. Gisborno and District. —Mails are closed C.P.O. 8.30 a.m., 5.15 p.m.; late fee C.P.0., 8.45 a.m., 6 p.m.; late fee railway, 9.30 a.m. Napier and Hawke's Bay District.—Mails are closed C.P.O. 8.30 a.m. and 5.15 p.m., 6 p.m.; late fee C.P.0., 8.45 a.m., 6 p.m.; late fee railway, 9.30 a.m. Now Plymouth and TaranaUP Districts.—Mails are closed C.P.O. 9 a.m., 1.30 p.m., 5.15 p.m. (letters only) ; late fee C.P.0., 9.15 a.m., 2 p.m., 6 p.m.; late fee railway, 10.15 a.m.. 2.50 p.m., 7-p.m. Monday, Wednesday, Friday (letters only). 3.45 p.m.; C.P.O. late fee. 4 p.m. Wanganui and District.—9 a.m., 1.30 p.m., 5.15 p.m., 6 p.m.; late fee C.P.0., 9.15 a.m., 2 p.m., 6 p.m.; late fee railway. 10.5 a.m., 2.50 p.m., 7 p.m. Rangitikei District.—Mails are closed C.P.O. 9 ' a.m., 1.30 p.m., 6 p.m.; late fee C.P.0., 9.15 a.m., 2 p.m.; late fee railway, 10.5 a.m., 2.50 p.m. .' Palmerston North.—Mails* are closed C.P.O. 7.30 p.m., 9 a.m., 1.30 p.m., 5.15 p.m., 6 p.m.; late fee C.P.0.. 7.45 a.m., 9.15 a.m., 2 p.m., 6 p.m.; late fee railway. 8.20 a.m., 10.5 a.m., 2.50 p.m., 7 p.m. Mauawatu District.—Mails are closed C.P.O 7.30 a.m., 4 p.m., 6 p.m.; late fee C.P.0., 7.45 a.m., 4.15 p.m.; late fee railway, 8.20 a.m. Wairarapa District.—Mails are closed C.P.O. 6 a.m., 2.30 p.m.. 4 p.m., 6 p.m.; late fee C.P.0., 2.45 p.m., 4.15 p.m.; late fee railway 7 40 a.m. . Inland parcel mails are closed daily at C.P.O. at 1 p.m., 2.30 p.m., 3.30 p.m., 4.30 p.m., 5 p.m., 6 p.m., 8 p.m. (For particulars of districts served, etc., ling 44-702 or 44-165, or call at counter.) Express transit parcels received up to time of closing letter malls. —Note. —Express transit parcels cannot be forwarded to Auckland by "Limited Express." The advertised times for closing mails by steamers are liable to alteration. ■The public are earnestly requested to register all letters containing money or valuables intended to be sent by post. ■ AH books, sample-packets, and newspapers must be posted at this office HALF AN HOUR before the time of closing ordinary letter malls. Books, sample-packets, and newspaper mails are closed at To Aro and Wellington East Post Offices at 11 a.m., 1 p.m., 2.30 p.m.. 4 p.m.. and 5 p.m. dally. Unless otherwise specified, registered letters must be handed in and money-orders obtained ONE HOUR before the time of closing ordinary raa"S- ■■ •■• • ■». G. NIND, Chief Postmaster. Tuesday, November M,-1039,'-■