MAIL NOTICES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 February 1939, Page 4

MAIL NOTICES

DISPATCHES FROM MASTERTON. Mails will be closed at Masterton as under: — THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16. Great Britain, Ireland, Canada (Eastern States) and Newfoundland (letters only), due London March 2, also airmail correspondence for foreign countries (special rates apply) served by the Empire air services, by Wanganella, 8.30 a.m.; late fee, 9 a.m. Australian States, Ceylon, India, China, Japan, Malaya, Egypt, East and South Africa, Italy and Balkans, by Wanganella, 8.30 a.m.; late fee, 9 a.m. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20. 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 Aorangi from Auckland (letters only), 10.15 a.m.; late fee, 10.45 a.m. Mail closes at Auckland 9 a.m. Tuesday; due Vancouver March 10. Note: Newspaper rate 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. INCOMING OVERSEAS MAILS. (Arrival Dates Approximate Only.) February 14—S.S. Rangitiki, from London, via Auckland: English secondclass matter and parcel mail for New Zealand, 600 bags, 250 parcel receptacles. February 14.—S.S. Awatea, from Sydney, via Auckland, English letter mail and Australian mail. February 15—M.V. Wanganella, from Sydney: Australian mail. February 17— S.S. Opawa, from Liverpool, via Auckland: English second class matter and parcel mail for Wellington, 10 bags, 55 parcel receptacles. February 18.—S.S. Monterey, from San Pedro, via Auckland: English sec-ond-class matter, American and Canadian mail. English letter mail which left Wellington on January 24 arrived at London on February 6. 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, 6.30 a.m.. 10.15 a.m. New Plymouth and district. —Daily, Monday to Friday, 6.30 a.m.; Saturday, б. 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. 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, ljd 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.