MAIL NOTICES.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 September 1938, Page 4

MAIL NOTICES.

DISPATCHES FROM MASTERTON. Mails will be closed at Masterton as under: — 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. Nauru and Ocean Islands, per Springbank (from Auckland), 5 p.m. Second-class matter, 10 a.m. Also per inland airmail (Id an oz. extra), Tuesday, September 6, 6.30 a.m. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6. Apia, Pago Pago and Niue Island, per Maui Pomare, 8.30 a.m. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7. Great Britain, Ireland, Canada and Newfoundland (letters only), due London September 22; also airmail correspondence for foreign countries (special .rates apply) served by the Empire air services, per Maunganui, 8.30 a.m. Australian States, Ceylon, India, China, Japan, Malaya, Egypt, East and South Africa, Italy, Balkans and Norfolk Island, per Maunganui, 8.30 a.m. English letter mail which left Wellington on August 11 arrived at London on August 28. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10. Great Britain, Ireland and Europe (second-class matter and parcels only); also letters, etc., for Central America, Chili, Bolivia, Jamaica and South American Western States, via Cristobal, per Tairoa (from Auckland), 10.15 a.m. Mails reach London approximately October 2. Correspondence will be accepted for dispatch by airmail services in North, South and Central America, also West Indies. INCOMING OVERSEAS MAILS. (Arrival Dates Aproximate Only.) September 3. —S.S. Monterey, from San Pedro, via Auckland: American and Canadian mail. September 6.—S.S. Maunganui, from Sydney: English letter mail and Australian mail. September 10. —S.S. Tamaroa, from London, via Auckland: English secondclass matter and parcel mail. English letter mail which left Wellington on August 10 arrived at London on August 25. 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 ioz. Australia and Dependencies, Id each ounce. United States of America, Italy, and all other'foreign countries, 2|d first oz., ljd 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. 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.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. J. D. O’CONNOR, Postmaster.