MAIL NOTICES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 February 1939, Page 6

MAIL NOTICES

DISPATCHES FROM MASTERTON. Mails will be closed at Masterton as under: — 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 Tamaroa, 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. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25. Victoria, Western and South Australia and Tasmania, via Melbourne, by Maunganui (from Bluff), (Wahine), 1 p.m.; late fee, 1.30 p.m. Also by inland airmail (Id an oz. extra), 5 p.m. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27. Cook Islands, Tonga and Apia, by Matua (from Auckland), 5 p.m. Parcel mail. Second-class matter, 10 a.m. 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. 1 United States of America, Italy and all other foreign countries: 2Jd first ounce. lid each succeeding ounce. The postage rates of all articles except letters rertiain unchanged. Airmail correspondence for foreign countries served by Empire air services. special rates apply. INCOMING OVERSEAS MAILS. (Arrival Dates Approximate Only.) February 26.—5.5. 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. Hawkes Bay.—Daily, except Sunday, б. a.m.. 10.15 a.m. New Plymouth and district--Daily. Monday to Friday, G. 20 a.m.; Saturday. G. 30 a.m., 5 p.m. Southern Offices of New Zealand (except Nelson district).—Daily, except Sunday, 5 p.m. Blenheim—Daily, except Sunday, G. 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. Greyrnouth 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. M. M. SIMPSON, Postmaster, j