MAIL NOTICES.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 August 1938, Page 4

MAIL NOTICES.

DISPATCHES FROM MASTERTON. Mails will be closed at Masterton as under: — WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17. Great Britain, Ireland (letters only), due London, September T, also airmail correspondence (special rates apply) for foreign countries served by the Empire air services, per Tasman, 3.30 p.m.; late fee, 3.45 p.m. Australian States, Ceylon, India, China, Malaya, Egypt, East and South Africa, Italy, Balkans and Dutch East Indies, per Tasman, 3.30 p.m.; late fee; 3.45 p.m. THURSDAY, AUGUST 18. Great Britain, Ireland and Continent of Europe (second-class mattei’ and parcels only); also letters, etc., for Pitcairn Island, Central America, Jamaica and South American Western States, via, Cristobal, per Tainui (from Auckland), 10.15 a.m.; late fee, 10.45. FRIDAY, AUGUST 19. Great Britain and Ireland (letters only), Australian States, South Africa and East, per Maunganui, 8.30 a.m.; late fee, 9 a.m. SATURDAY, AUGUST 20. Canada, United States, of America, Mexico and West Indies, also letters for Continent of Europe, via San Pedro; Fiji, Apia, Pago-Pago, Fanning Islands, Hawaiian Islands, per Mariposa, from. Auckland, 10.15 a.m.; late fee, 10.45 a.m. INCOMING OVERSEAS MAILS. ' (Arrival date approximate only.) August 13.—S.S. Kairanga, from Sydney, via Auckland: Australian and beyond Australia mail (including English mail dispatched from London, July 28, for Wellington), 17 bags, 12 parcel 1 receptacles. 8 August 18. —Nanfwa Maru, from Miike, via Auckland: Eastern mail for ’ Wellington, 13 bags. August 18. —M.V. Wanganella, from Sydney, via Auckland: English mail. August 18. —S.S. Awatea, from Sydney: English and Australian mail. August 19. —S.S. Mamari, from London: English second-class matter andparcel mail. August 22. —R.M.S. Aorangi, from Vancouver, via Auckland: American mail. Mails which left Wellington on July 11, via Vancouver, arrived at London' on August 8. • AIRMAIL SERVICE. NEW POSTAGE RATES FOR OVERSEAS LETTERS NOW IN FORCE. Great Britain, Ireland, Canada, Egypt and all other British countries (except Australia), lid.pach |oz. . Australia and pepenShficiek;;' Idf'eabli ounce. • s • f Unfted-Stafe <6’fi‘ - Aifi'erica, Italy, and all other foreign countries, 2Jd first oz., lid each succeeding oz. The postage rates on all articles except l etters remain unchanged. Airmail correspondence for foreign countries served by Empire air services, special rates apply. BY 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.ip . 1 Southern Offices of Mosw Zealand (except Nelson district)..—Daily, except Sunday, 5 p.m. Blenheim. —Daily, except Sun day, 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 an d Hokitika.—Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays only, 3.30 p.m. Parcels for c jisps.tch by air will be accepted up to the, time of cla ;ing letter mails. J. D. O’COMfrOR, Posff naster.

MASTERTON CLOSING HOURS. Wellington, Monday to Friday (letters only), 6.30 a.m., 8.30 a.m. Wellington, Monday to Friday. 1 p.m., 3.30 p.m. Wellington, Saturday (letters only), " 6.30 a.m., 8.30 a.m., 5 p.m. Wellington, Saturday, 1 p.m. Carterton, Greytown, Featherston, Martinborough, 6.30 a.m., 1 p.m., daily. Clareville, Lower Hutt. Petone, 6.30 a.m., daily.