MAIL NOTICES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 January 1939, Page 4

MAIL NOTICES

DISPATCHES FROM MASTERTON. Mails will be closed at Masterton as under: — MONDAY, JANUARY 23. Canada, United States of America, Mexico, West Indies; also letters only for Continent of Europe, via Vancouver; also Fiji, Fanning Island, Tahiti and Hawaiian Islands, by Niagara (from Auckland), (letters only), 5 p.m; late fee, 5.30 p.m. Second claSs matter. 10.15 a.m. Mail closes at Auckland 9 a.m. Tuesday; due Vancouver February 10. Note: Newspaper rate of postage to United States of America is Id for each two ounces. Correspondence will also be accepted for airmail services in America; also Honolulu-San Francisco Pan-American Airways Service. TUESDAY, JANUARY 24. Apia, Pago Pago and Niue Island, by Maui Pomare, 8.30 a.m.; late fee, 9 a.m. Great Britain. Ireland, Canada and Newfoundland (letters only), due London February 6, also airmail correspondence for foreign countries (special rates apply) served by the Empire air services, by Awatea, 8.30 a.m.; late fee, 9 a.m.

Australian States, Ceylon, India, China, Japan, Malaya, Egypt, East and South Africa, Italy, Balkans and Norfolk Island, 8.30 a.m; late fee, 9 a.m. Second class matter, 3.30 p.m., January 23. Second class matter, 4.30 p.m. THURSDAY, JANUARY 26.

Great Britain and Ireland, secondclass matter and parcels only; also letters, etc., for Continent of Europe, Central America, Jamaica and South American Western States, via Cristobal, by Sultan Star, 3.30 p.m.; late fee, 3.45 p.m. Mails reach London approximately February 28. Correspondence wil Ibe accepted for dispatch by airmail services in North, South and Central America, also West Indies.

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: 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 Approximate Only.) January 21. —S.S. Mariposa, from San Pedro, via Auckland: English second class matter, American and Canadian mail.

January 23. —S.S. Awatea, from Sydney: English letter mail and Australian mail.

January 23.—5.5. James Cook, from Sydney, via Auckland: Australian mail for Wellington. 7 bags, 1 parcel receptacle.

January 24. —S.S. James Cook, from Sydney, via Lyttelton: Australian mail for Wellington, 7 bags, 1 parcel receptacle.

January 26. —S.S. Tamaroa, from London: English parcel mail. January 31. —Kozan Marti, from Japan, via Auckland: Eastern mail for Wellington, 17 bags. February 6. —R.M.S. Aorangi, from Vancouver, via Auckland: English sec-ond-class matter, American and Canadian mail. English letter mail which left Wellington on December 27 arrived at London on January 9. M. M. SIMPSON, Postmaster,