MAIL NOTICES.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 September 1938, Page 6

MAIL NOTICES.

DISPATCHES FROM MASTERTON. Mails will be closed at Masterton asunder:— MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12. 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. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17. Parcel mails for Fiji, Tahiti, Pago Pago, Hawaiian Islands and America, per Monterey (from Auckland), 9.15 a.m. United States of America, Canada, Mexico and West Indies; also letters for Continent of Europe, via San Pedro, Fiji, Apia, Pago Pago, Japan, Tahiti and Hawaiian Islands, per Monterey (from Auckland), 10.15 a.m.; late fee, 10.45 a.m. Mail closes at Auckland 3 p.m. Monday; due San Pedro October 3. 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 airmail (Id an oz extra), Monday, September 19, 6.30 a.m. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14. Great Britain and Ireland (letters only), (due London September 29; also airmail correspondence for foreign countries (special rates apply) served by the Empire air services, per Wanganella (from Auckland), 10.15 a.m.; late fee, 10.45 a.m. Australian States, Ceylon, India, China, Malaya, Egypt, East and South Africa, Italy and Balkans, per Wanganella (from Auckland), 10.15 a.m.; late fee, 10.45 a.m. Parcel mail, 9.15 a.m. INCOMING OVERSEAS MAILS. (Arrival Dates Aproximate Only.) 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. September 14 —S.S. Wanganella, from Sydney, via Auckland: English letter mail and Australian mail. September 20. —R.M.S. Niagara, from Vancouver, via Auckland; American and Canadian mail. English letter mail which left Wellington on August 11 arrived at London on August 28. 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 4oz. 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 ser- i: vices, special rates apply. B V 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 ana district. —Daily, ; except Sunday, 6.30 a.m. ‘ Southern Offices of New Zealand (ex- i cept Nelson district). —Daily, except t Sunday, 5 p.m. s J. D. O’CONNOR, e Postmaster. p