MAIL NOTICES.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 December 1938, Page 4

MAIL NOTICES.

DISPATCHES FROM MASTERTON. Mails will be closed at Masterton as under:— SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10. United States of America, Canada, Mexico and West Indies, Argentine, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Falkland Islands, also letters for Continent of Europe, via San Pedro, Fiji, Apia, Pago Pago, Japan and Hawaiian Islands, by Mariposa (from Auckland), 10.15 a.m.; late fee, 10.45 a.m. Mail closes at Auckland, 3 p.m. Monday; due San Pedro December 26. Note: Newspaper rate of postage to United States of America is 3d for each two ounces. Correspondence will be accepted for dispatch by airmail services in North, South and Central America and West Indies. Also by inland airmail (Id an oz. extra), Monday, December 12, 6.30 a.m. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13. Great Britain, Ireland, Canada and Newfoundland (letters only), due London December 26, also airmail correspondence for foreign countries (special rates apply) served by the Empire air services, by Awatea, 8.30 a.m. Australian States, Ceylon, India, China, Japan, Malaya, Egypt, East and South Africa, Italy, Balkans and Norfolk Island, by Awatea, 8.30 a.m. NEW POSTAGE RATES FOR OVERSEAS LETTERS NOW IN FORCE. Great Britain, Ireland, Canada, Egypt and all other British countries (except Australia), ljd each half ounce; Australia and Dependencies, Id each ounce. United States of America, Italy and all other foreign countries: 2|d first ounce, 13d 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 Approximate Only.) December 12. —S.S. Awatea from Sydney: English letter mail and Australian mail. December 12: R.M.S. Aorangi, from Vancouver, via Auckland; English sec-ond-class matter, American and Canadian mail. December 16. —S.S. Rangitane, from London: English second-class matter and parcel mail. English letter mails which left Wellington November 15 and 16 arrived at London on December 2. The Christmas dispatch of mails for Australian States will be closed at Wellington on December 13, at 3 p.m. BY AIRMAIL. Auckland, Hamilton and Thames districts.—Daily, Monday to Friday, 6.30 and 8.30 a.m.; Saturday, 6.30 a.m., 8.30 a.m. and 5 p.m. Gisborne.—Daily, except Sunday, 6.30 а. 10.15 a.m. Hawke’s Bay.—Daily, except Sunday, б. a.m., 10.15 a.m. New Plymouth and district. —Daily, Monday to Friday, 6.30 a.m.; Saturday,’ 6.30 a.m., 5 p.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. Greymouth and' Hokitika.—Monday to Friday, 3.30 p.m.; Saturday, 5 p.m. Parcels for dispatch by air will be accepted up to the time of closing letter mails. 7 '■ M. M. SIMPSON, Postmaster.