MAIL NOTICES.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 August 1938, Page 4

MAIL NOTICES.

DISPATCHES FROM MASTERTON. .Mails will be closed at Masterton as under: — WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24. Great Britain, Ireland (second-class matter and parcels only); also letters, etc., for Continent of Europe, Central America, Jamaica and South American Western ■ States, via Cristobal, per Rangitata (from Auckland), 10.15 a.m.; late fee, 10.45 a.m. Mails reach London aproximately September 27. Correspondence will be accepted for dispatch by airmail services in North, South and Central America, also West Indies. Tonga, Apia, Pago Pago and Fiji, per , Matua (from Auckland), 5 p.m. Sec-ond-class matter, 10 a.m. THURSDAY, AUGUST 25. New Caledonia and Japan, per Naniwa Maru (from Lyttelton), (Maori), 8.30 a.m. SATURDAY, AUGUST 27. Great’Britain and’ Ireland (letters only), due London September 12; also airmail correspondence for foreign countries (special rates apply) served by the Empire air services, per Maunganui (from Auckland), 5 p.m. Australian States, Ceylon, India, China, Japan, Malaya, Egypt, East and South Africa, Italy, Balkans and Norfolk Island, per Maunganui (from Auckland), 5 p.m. Second-class matter, 10 a.m. INCOMING OVERSEAS MAILS. (Arrival Dates Aproximate Only.) August 23.—R.M.5. Aorangi, from Vancouver, via Auckland: English and American mail. August 23.—5.5. Mariposa, from Sydney via Auckland: Australian and beyond Australia mail (including English letter mail dispatched from London August 7). August 27. —S.S. Rangitane, from London, via Auckland: English secondclass and parcel mails. August 27.—5.5. Kakapo, from Sydney, via Lyttelton: Australian and be’, yond Australia mail. August 28. —S.S. Maunganui, from Sydney via Auckland: English letter mail and Australian mail. September 3. —S.S. Monterey, from San Pedro, via Auckland: American and Canadian mail. Mails which left Wellington on July 23 via San Pedro arrived at London on August 18. AIRMAIL SERVICE. NEW POSTAGE RATES FOR OVERSEAS LETTERS NOW IN FORCE. Great Britain, Ireland, Canada, Egypt and all other British countries (except Australia), IJd each Joz. Australia and Dependencies, Id each ounce. United States of America, Italy, and all other foreign countries, 2£d first oz., IJd each succeeding oz. The postage rates on all articles except letters remain unchanged. Airmail correspondence for foreign countries served by Empire air services, special rates apply. Bf AIRMAIL. Auckland, Hamilton and Thames districts. —Daily, Monday to Friday, 6J30 a.m.; Saturday, 6.30 a.m. and 5 p.m. Gisborne. —Daily, except Sunday, 6.30 а. Hawke’s Bay.—Daily, except Sunday, 6.30 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, б. 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. Greyrnouth and Hokitika.—Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays only, 3.30 p.m. Parcels for dispatch by air will be accepted up to the time of (dosing Hotter mails. J. D. O’CONNOR, Postmaste/r.

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. South Island, 1 p.m. daily. Nelson, Blenheim, West Coast, South Island, 6.30 a.m., 1 p.m., daily. Wanganui, Main Trunk, Auckland, 10.15 a.m., daily. Wanganui, Taranaki, Palmerston Nth., 10.15 a.m. and 2 p.m., daily. Wanganui, Taianaki, Palmerston Nth., Auckland (letters only), 5 p.m., daily.