MAIL NOTICES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 March 1939, Page 6

MAIL NOTICES

DISPATCHES FROM MASTERTON. Mails will be closed at Masterton as under:— Next dispatch for Great Britain: Wanganella, from Auckland, March 3. 5 p.rn. Due London, March 18. FRIDAY. MARCH 3. Great Britain and Ireland (letters only), (due London, March 18), also airmail correspondence for foreign countries (special rates aply) served by the Empire air services, by Wanganella (from Auckland), 5 p.m.; late fee, 5.30 p.m. Australian States, Ceylon, India, China, Malaya, Egypt, East and South Africa, Italy and Balkans, by Wanganella (from Auckland), 5 p.m.; secondclass matter, 10 a.m. • SATURDAY, MARCH 4. Parcel mails for Fiji. Pago Pago. Tahiti, Hawaiian Islands and America, by Monterey (from Auckland), 10 a.m. United States of America, Canada, ■Mexico and West Indies; also letters for Continent of Europe, via San Pedro, Fiji, Apia. Pago Pago. Tahiti. Japan and Hawaiian Islands, by Monterey (from Auckland), 10.15 a.m. Mail closes at Auckland 3 p.m. Monday; due San Pedro March 20. Note: Newspaper rate of postage to United States of America is Id for each two ounces. Correspondence will be accepted for dispatch by airmail services in North. South and Central America, also West Indies. Also by inland airmail <ld ah oz. extra), Monday, March 6, 6.30 a.m. MONDAY, MARCH 6. Great Britain. Ireland, Canada and Newfoundland (letters only), due London- March 20, also airmail correspondence for foreign countries (special rates apply) served by the Empire air ser-| vices, by Awalea, 8.30 a.m. Australia’)! States, Ceylon, India. China. Japan. Malaya, Egypt, East and South Africa, Italy and Balkans, by Awatea. 8.30 a.m. Parcel mail. Secondclass matter, 1 p.m. on Saturday. 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: 2Jd first ounce, ltd each succeeding ounce. The postage rates of all articles except letters remain unchanged. Airmail correspondence for foreign countries served by En pire air services. special rates apnly. INCOMING OVERSEAS MAILS. (Arrival Dates Approximate Only.) March 6.—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. March 9.—S.S. Arawa, from London: English parcel mail. March 11.—M.S. Rangitata, from London, via Auckland: English 'secondclass matter and parcel mail for New Zealand, 10 bags, 250 parcel receptacles. English letter mail which left Wellington on February 7 arrived at London on February 20. M. M. SIMPSON, 1 Postmaster. FOR SALE. WHITE PAPER. • WHITE PAPER. Apply-“TIMES-AGE.”