MAIL NOTICES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 February 1939, Page 4

MAIL NOTICES

DISPATCHES FROM MASTERTON. Mails will be closed at Masterton as under:— SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18. Parcel mails for Fiji, Fanning Island, Tahiti, Hawaiian Islands, Canada and America, by Aorangi (from Auckland), 10.15 a.m. Chatham Islands, by Tees (from Lyttelton), (Wahine), 1 p.m. Also by inland airmail (Id an oz. extra), 5 p.m. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20. Canada, United States of America, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Falkland Islands, 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), 5 p.m.; late fee, 5.30 p.m. Sec-ond-class matter, 10 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 Hono-lulu-San Francisco Pan-American Airways Service. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21. Apia, Pago Pago and Niue Island, by Maui Pomare, 8.30 a.m. INCOMING OVERSEAS MAILS. (Arrival Dates Approximate Only.) February 18.—S.S. Monterey, from San Pedro, via Auckland: English sec-ond-class matter, American and Canadian mail. February 20.—S.S. Awatea, from Sydney: English letter mail and Australian mail. February 21—S.S. Opawa, from Liverpool, via Auckland: English secondclass matter and parcel mail for Wellington, 10 bags, 55 parcel receptacles. February 25.—5.5. Mataroa, from London, via Auckland: English secondclass matter and parcel mail. English letter mail which left Wellington on January 26 arrived at London on February 11. 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, exoept 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), l£d each half ounce; Australia and Dependencies, Id each ounce. United States of America, Italy and all other foreign countries: 2id first ounce. IJd each succeeding ounce. The postage rates of all articles except letters remain unchanged. Airmail correspondence for foreign countries served by Err pire air services, special rates apnly. M. M. SIMPSON, Postmaster.

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