MAIL NOTICES.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 October 1938, Page 9

MAIL NOTICES.

DISPATCHES FROM MASTERTON. Mails will be closed at Masterton as under: — THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13. Great Britain, Ireland and Continent of Europe (second-class matter and parcels only); also letters, etc., for Pitcairn Island, Central America, Chile, Bolivia, Jamaica and South American Western States, via Cristobal, per Tamaroa (from Auckland), 10.15 a.m.; late fee, 10.45 a.m. Mails reach London approximately November 16. Correspondence will be accepted for dispatch by airmail services in North, South and Central America, also West Indies. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14. Great Britain and Ireland (letters only), due London, October 27; also airmail correspondence for foreign countries (special rater apply) served by the Empire air services, per Awatea, 8.30 a.m.; late fee, 9 a.m. Australian States, Ceylon, India, China, Japan, Malaya, Egypt, East and South Africa, Italy and Balkans, per Awatea, 8.30 a.m.; late fee, 9 a.m. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15. Parcel mails for Fiji, Pago Pago, Tahiti, Hawaiian Islands and America, per Mariposa (frbm Auckland), 10 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 Mariposa (from Auckland), 5 p.m. Second-class matter, 10 a.m. Mail closes at Auckland 3 p.m. Monday, due San Pedro October 31. Note: Newspaper’ rates 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, October 17, 6.30 a.m. NEW POSTAGE RATES FOR OVERSEAS LETTERS NOW IN FORCE. Great Britain, Ireland, Canada, Egypt and all other British countries (except Australia), Ijd each half ounce; Australia and Dependencies, Id each ounce. United States of America, Italy and all other foreign countries: 2|d first ounce, lid each succeeding ounce. The postage rates of all articles except letters remain unchanged. Airmail correspondence for foreign countries served by Empire air services, special rates apply. INCOMING OVERSEAS MAILS. (Arrival Dates Aproximate Only.) October 13. —S.S. Awatea, from Sydney: English letter mail and Australian mail. October 17. —R.M.S. Aorangi, from Vancouver, via Auckland: American and Canadian mail. October 18. —S.S. Mariposa, from Sydney, via Auckland: English letter mail and Australian mail. English letter mail which left Wellington on September 19 and 20, arrived at London on October 6. October 20. —S.S. Rangitiki, from London, via Auckland: English secondclass matter and parcel mail. b. McFarlane, Acting-Postmaster.'