MAIL NOTICE

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 83, 4 October 1940, Page 4

MAIL NOTICE

t Mails (except parcel malls) will be closed at Chief Post Office, Wellington. Cl, as under:— Mails close at Post Office, Te Aro, C 2, and Wellington East, C 3, and half-hourly prior to { the closing of mails at the Chief Post Office, i between the hours of 9.30 a.m. and 4.30 p.m. (Mails for Auckland per "Limited" express '•lose at these offices at 4.30 p.m.) ■ THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10. Australian States and countries via Australia (including air-mail correspondence for air services in Australia), 11 a.m. Other overseas mails will be dispatched as opportunity offers. TRANS-TASMAN SERVICE. Mails will close at Wellington at noon on the following dates:—Tuesday, October 8, Thursday, October 10. Postage Rates.—Australia (including air serj vices in Australia) : Letters, 5d each halfounce ; postcards, 3d. Egypt, Africa, and intermediate Empire countries. Is 6d each halfounce; postcards 9d. Foreign countries intermediate between Australia and Egypt, special rates apply. Inquire at Post Office. I Note.—Postage rates include air services in [ New Zealand when necessary. TRANS-PACIFIC AIR MAIL. The closing time for malls from Wellington: Next .mail, noon, Thursday, October 10. Postage rates: Letters, Hawaii, 2s 6d each halfounce; United States and Canada (including air in America). 4s each half-ounce.; Great Britain, 5s 9d each half-ounce. For further particulars apply to Post Office. AIR-MAIL SERVICES TO GREAT BRITAIN. j Route. —Air New Zealand, Australia, Cape Town only (by trans-Tasman air mail or Australian dispatches), normal transit time, 32 days; postage rates (each half-ounce). Is 6d. Route.—x Air Honolulu-New York only (as opportunity offers), normal transit time, approximately 3 weeks: postage rates (each halfounce). Is 9d. Uoute. —xAir Honolulu, United States of America, Great Britain (as opportunity offers), normal transit time, under 3 weeks: postage rates (each half-ounce), 4s. Route.—Air New Zealand-New York only (by trans-Pacific air mail), normal transit time approximately 2 weeks: postage rates (each half-ounce), 4s. Route. —Air New Zealand, United States of America. Great Britain (by trans-Paciflc and transatlantic air. mail), normal transit time, '2 days; postage rates (each half-ounce), 5s Od. xConnections uncertain, letters accepted at sender's risk.