MAIL NOTICES.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 July 1938, Page 3

MAIL NOTICES.

DISPATCHES FROM MASTERTON. Mails will be closed at Masterton as under: — Best despatch for Great Britain: Monterey (from Auckland), July 23, 10.15 a.m.; due London, August 18. WEDNESDAY, JULY 20. Great Britain, Ireland and Europe, for correspondence specially addressed “per Hororata,” also Central America, Jamaica, British, French and Dutch Guiana, Venezuela, Republic of Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Chile and Bolivia, via Cristobal, per Hororata (from Napier), 10.15 a.m.; late fee, 10.45 a.m. Parcel mail, 9.15 a.m. Mails reach London approximately August 30. Correspondence will be accepted for dispatch by airmail services in North, South and Central America, also West Indies. THURSDAY, JULY 21. Nauru and Ocean Islands, per Trienza (from Auckland), 10.15 a.m. Late fee, 10.45 a.m. FRIDAY, JULY 22. Airmail correspondence for Great Britain, Ireland and Europe, via Aus-tralia-Singapore-England airmail (due London, August 4), per Awatea, 8.30 a.m.; late fee, 9 a.m. Australian States, Ceylon, India, China, Straits Settlements, Egypt, South Africa and Italy, per Awatea, 8.30 a.m.; late fee, 9 a.m. SATURDAY, JULY 23. Great Britain, Ireland, Europe, Canada, United States of America, via San Pedro, also Fiji, Samoa, Pago Pago, Japan and Hawaiian Islands, per Monterey, 10.15 a.m. Late fee, 10.45 a.m.; due London, August 18. Note: Newspaper rate of postage to United States of America is id for each two ounces. Correspondence will be accepted for dispatch by airmail services in North, South and Central America, also West Indies. Also per inland mail (Id an oz. extra), Monday, July 23; 6.30 a.m. AIRMAIL SERVICE. Great Britain, Ireland, Europe, Egypt, South Africa and intermediate countries served by the Australia-Sin-gapore-England airmail; next dispatch per Awatea, Friday, July 22, 8.30 a.m.; late fee, 9 a.m. Due London August 4. For information regarding postage and other particulars, inquire at any post office. INCOMING OVERSEAS MAILS. ' (Arrival Dates Approximate Only.) July 20. —S.S. Wanganella, from Sydney, .via Auckland: Australian mail. July 26: R.M.S. Niagara from Vancouver, via Auckland: English and American mail. Bf AIRMAIL. Auckland, Hamilton and Thames districts.—Daily, Monday to Friday, 6.30 a.m.; Saturday, 6.30 a.m. and 5 p.m. Gisborne. —Daily, except Sunday, 6.30 а. Hawke’s Bay.—Daily, except Sunday, б. a.m. New Plymouth and district—Daily, except Sunday, 6.30 a.m. Southern Offices of New Zealand (except Nelson district). —Daily, except Sunday, 5 p.m. Blenheim.—Daily, except Sunday, 6.30 a.m., 8.30 a.m., 3.30 p.m. Nelson. —Daily, except Sunday, 6.30 a.m., 8.30 a.m., 3.30 p.m. , ' Greymouth and Hokitika. —Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays only, 3.30 p.m. Parcels for dispatch by air will be accepted up to the time of closing letter mails. A. W. SWAP, Acting-Postmaster. MASTERTON CLOSING HOURS. Wellington (letters only), 6.30 a.m., 8.30 a.m. daily. Wellington, 1 p.m. and 3.30 p.m. (late fee, 3.45 p.m.). Carterton, Greytown, Featherston, Martinborough, 6.30 a.m., 1 p.m., daily.

Enlarging on his view that it was the dare-devil spirit that prompted young men to ride recklessly on motor cycles, the Minister of Transport (the Hon R. Semple) told a Christchurch deputation of an incident in his own younger days, states the “Star-Sun.” There was in the district, he said, a cliff, and half-way down it a nest of wild bees. He and some friends determined to get the honey from it, so he was lowered over, the cliff edge on a rope. The nest was 125 feet down and there was another 100 feet of space beneath. As he struggled to get at the nest, rotten rock came away and the bees attacked him in swarms. “I came out tattooed like an Australian black,” said the Minister. “It was an act of insanity, but I did not think, and it is this thoughtlessness which is taking toll of life on our roads today.”