MAIL NOTICE

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 85, 7 October 1940, Page 10

MAIL NOTICE

Mails (except parcel mails) will be closed at. Chief rest Office, Wellington, Cl, as under:— Mails close at Post Office, Tc Aro, €2, and Wellington East, C 3, and half-hourly prior to the closing of mails at the Chief Post Office, between the hours of 0.30 a.m. and 4.30 p.m. (Mails tor Auckland per ".Limited" express close at these offices at 4.30 p.m.) THURSDAY, OCTOBEK 10. Australian States and countries via Australia (including nlr-mall correspondence for air services in Australia), 11 a.m. Other overseas mails will be dispatched as opportunity offers. TRANS-TASMAN SERVICK. Mails will close at Wellington at noon on the following dates:—Tuesday, October S, Thursday, October 10. Postages Kates.—Australia (including air services in Australia). Letters 5d each halfounce; postcards, 3d. Egypt, Africa, and intermediate Empire countries, Is (3d each halfnunee; postcards, 9d. Foreign countries intermediate between Australia and Egypt, special rates apply. Inquire at Post Office. ] Note. —Postage rates include air services in i Xew Zealand when necessary. j TRANS-PACIFIC AIR MAIL. The closing times for mails from Wellington : next mail, jiooii, Thursday, October 10. Postage rates: Letters, Hawaii, 2s (id each lialf■ninee; United States and Canada (including' air in America), 4s each half-ounce; Great Britain, /is itd each half-ounce. For further particulars apply to Post. Office. AIR-MAIL SERVICES TO GREAT BRITAIN. Route.—Air New Zealand, Australia, Cape Town only (by trans-Tasman air mall or Australian dispatches), normal transit time, ;>2 days. Postage rates (each half-ounce), la lid. Route. —xAlr Honolulu-New York only (as opportunity offers), normal transit time, approximately :-t weeks; postage rates (each halfounce). Is Od. Route. —sAir Honolulu. United States tif America, Great liritain (as opportunity offers), normal transit time, under 3 weeks. Postage rates (each half-ounce), 4s. Route.-rAir New Zealand-New York only (by trans-Pacific1 air mail) ; normal transit time approximately 2 weeks. Postage rates (each half-ounce), 4s. Rouje. —Air New Zealand, tinned Stales of America, Great Britain (by trans-Pacific and transatlantic air mail), normal transit time. 12 days. Postage rates (each half-ounce), 5s 9d. xConnections uncertain, letters accepted at sender's risk. ; INLAND MAILS. (Unless otherwise indicated mails are closed daily.)