MAIL NOTICES.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 August 1938, Page 6

MAIL NOTICES.

DISPATCHES FROM MASTERTON. Mails will.be closed at Masterton as under: — Next dispatch for Great Britain: Wanganella, September 1, 8.30 a.m.; due London September 15. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1. Great Britain, Ireland and Europe (second-class matter and parcels only); also letters, etc., for Central America, Jamaica and South American Western States, via Cristobal, per Cornwall from Auckland, 10.15 a.m. Parcel mail, 9.15 a.m. Mails reach London approximately Otcober 12. Correspondence will be accepted for dispatch by airmail services in North, South and Central America, also West Indies. Also per inland airmail (Id an oz. extra), Thursday, September 1, 6.30 a.m. Great Britain and Ireland (letters only), due London, September 15; also airmail correspondence for foreign countries (special rates apply) served by the Empire air services (per Wanganella), 8.30 a.m. Australian States, Ceylon, India, Malaya, Egypt, East and South Africa, Italy and Balkans, per Wanganella, 8.30 a.m. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 5. Canada, United States of America, Mexico, West Indies, also letters only for Continent of Europe, via Vancouver; also Fiji, Tahiti, Japan. Fanning Island and Hawaiian Islands, per Aorangi (from Auckland), 10.15 a.m., due Vancouver, September 23. Note: Newspaper rates of postage to United States of America is Jd for each two ounces. Correspondence will also be accepted for airmail services in America; also Honolulu-San Francisco Pan-American Airways service. INCOMING OVERSEAS MAILS. (Arrival Dates Aproximate Only.) 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), lid each Joz. Australia and Dependencies, Id each ounce. United States of America, Italy, and all other foreign countries, 2Jd 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. Bsf 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, 6.30 a.m. New Plymouth ana district. —Daily, except Sunday, 6.30 agn. Southern Offices of New Zealand (except Nelson district). —Daily, except ilunday, 5 p.m. Blenheim—Daily, except Sunday, б. a.m., 8.30 a.m., 3.30 p.m. Melson. —Daily, except Sunday, 6.30 a.m, 8.30 a.m., 3.30 p.m. G/eymouth 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. ,J. D. O’CONNOR, Postmaster. <