MAIL NOTICES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 March 1939, Page 6

MAIL NOTICES

DISPATCHES FROM MASTERTON. Mails will be closed at Masterton as under: — ( SATURDAY, APRIL 1. Parcel mails for Fiji, Pago Pago, Tahiti, Hawaiian Islands and America, by Mariposa (from Auckland), 10.15 a.m. United States of America, Canada, Mexico and West Indies; also letters for Continent of Europe, via San Pedro, Fiji, Apia, Pago Pago, Japan, Tahiti and Hawaiian Islands, by Mariposa (from Auckland), 5 p.m.; second-class matter 10.15 a.m. Mail closes at Auckland, 3 p.m., Monday; due San Pedro, April 17. 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. MONDAY, APRIL 3. Great Britain, Ireland, Canada, and Newfoundland (letters only), due London April 17, also airmail correspondence for foreign countries (special rates apply) served by the Empire air services, by Awatea, 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 Awatea, 8.30 a.m.; late fee, 9 a.m. Sec-ond-clasiß matter, 3.30 p.m., Saturday, April 1. INCOMING OVERSEAS MAILS. (Arrival Dates Approximate Only.) March 30. —M.V. Wanganella, from Sydney, via Auckland; Australian parcel mail for Wellington, 7 parcel receptacles. April 3. —R.M.S. Aorangi, from Vancouver via Auckland: English secondclass matter, American and Canadian mail. April 3. —S.S. Awatea, from Sydney; English letter mail and Australian mail. April 6. —S.S. Trojan Star, from Liverpool, via Auckland; English parcel mail for Wellington, 1 bag, 49 parcel receptacles. April 6. —S.S. Rangitane, from London; English second-class matter and parcel mail. English letter mail which left Wellington on February 28 arrived London March 13. BY AIRMAIL. Auckland, Hamilton and Thames districts. —Daily, Monday to Frfday, 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, 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, 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. b. McFarlane, Acting-Postmaster.

United States of America, Italy and all other foreign countries: 2Jd 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. MASTERTON CLOSING HOURS. Wellington, Monday to Friday (letters only), 6.30 a.m., 8.30 a.m. Wellington, Monday to Friday, 1 p.m., 3.30 p.m. Wellington, Saturday (letters only), 6.30 a.m., 8.30 a.m., 5 p.m. Wellington, Saturday, 1 p.m. Carterton, Greytown. Featherston, Martinborough, G. 30 a.m., 1 p.m., daily. Clareville, Lower Hutt, Petone, 6.30 a.m., daily. South Island, 1 p.m., daily. Nelson, Blenheim, West Cost, South Island, 6.30 a.m., 1 p.m., daily. Wanganui, Main Trunk, Auckland, 10.15 a.m.. daily.