MAIL NOTICES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 February 1939, Page 4

MAIL NOTICES

DISPATCHES FROM MASTERTON. Mails will be closed at Masterton as under: — WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22. Great Britain, Ireland, Canada (Eastern States) and Newfoundland (letters only), due London March 11, also airmail correspondence for foreign countries (special rates apply) served by the Empire air services, by Waitaki, 3.30 p.m,; late fee, 3.45 p.m. Australian States, Ceylon, India, China, Japan, Malaya, Egypt, East and South Africa, Italy and Balkans, by Waitaki, 3.30 p.m.; late fee, 3.45 p.m. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24. Great Britain, Ireland, and Continent of Europe (second-class matter and parcels only), also letters, etc., for Pitcairn Island, Central America, Jamaica, Chile and Bolivia, and South American Western States, via Cristobal, by Tainui, 8.30 a.m.; late fee, 9 a.m. Parcel mail, 3.30 p.m., Thursday, 23. Mails reach London approximately March 29. Correspondence will be 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), 14d each half ounce; Australia and Dependencies, Id each ounce. United States of America, Italy and all other foreign countries: 2£d first ounce. IJd 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.) February 21. —S.S. Opawa, from Liverpool, via Auckland: English secondclass matter and parcel mail for Wellington, 10 bags, 55 parcel receptacles. February 26. —S.S. Mataroa, from London, via Auckland: English secondclass matter and parcel mail. February 28. —S.S. Awatea, from Sydney: English letter mail and Australian mail. March 7. —R.M.S. Niagara, from Vancouver, via Auckland: English secondclass matter, American and Canadian 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, 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,.s p.m. Parcels for dispatch by air will be accepted up to the time of closing letter mails. M. M. SIMPSON, Postmaster,