MAIL NOTICES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 April 1939, Page 4

MAIL NOTICES

DISPATCHES FROM MASTERTON. Mails will be closed at Masterton as under:— SATURDAY. APRIL 29. Parcel mails for Fiji, Pago Pago, Hawaiian Islands and America, by Monterey (-from Auckland), 10 a.m. United States of America, Canada, Mexico and West Indies, Argentine, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Falkland Islands; also letters for Continent of Europe, via San Pedro, Fiji, Apia, Pago Pago, Japan and Hawaiian Islands, by Monterey (from Auckland), 5 p.m.; late fee, 5.30 p.m. Mail closes at Auckland 3 p.m. Monday; due San Pedro May 15. 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 (Id an oz. ex’tra-, Monday, May 1, 6.30 a.m. INCOMING OVERSEAS MAILS. (Arrival Dates Approximate Only.) April 30. —Tokyo Maru, from Melbourne, via Dunedin: Australian mail for Wellington, 5 bags, 4 parcel receptacles. May 2.—R.M.S. Niagara, from Vancouver, via Auckland: English secondclass matter, American and Canadian mail for Wellington, 492 bags. May 2.—S.S. Monterey, from Sydney, via Auckland: English letter mail and Australian mail. May 3—S.S. Taranaki, from Liverpool, via Auckland: English parcel mail. English letter mail which left Wellington on April 4 arrived at London on April 20. AIRMAILS. Inland air-mails will close at Masterton as under: — Auckland and District. —Monday to Friday, 6.30 a.m.; Saturday, 6.30 a.m., 5 p.m. Blenheim. —Daily (except Sunday), 8.30 a.m., 3.30 p.m. Christchurch. —Daily (except Sunday), 6.30 a.m., 5 p.m. Dunedin.—Daily (except Sunday), 6.30 a.m., 5 p.m. Gisborne.— Monday to Friday, 6.30 а. Saturday, 6.30 a.m., 5 p.m. Greymouth.—Daily (except Sunday), 3.30 p.m. Hokitika— Daily (except Sunday), 3.30 p.m. Invercargill. —Daily (except Sunday), б. a.m., 5 p.m. Napier. —Monday to Friday, 6.30 a.m.; Saturday, 6.30 a.m., 5 p.m. Nelson.—Daily (except Sunday), 6.30 a.m., 8.30 a.m., 3.30 p.m. New Plymouth—Daily (except Sunday), 5 p.m. Reefton.—Daily (except Sunday), 3.30 p.m. Westport.—Daily (except Sunday), 3.30 p.m. Parcels for despatch by air wlil be accepted up to the time of closing letter mails. NEW POSTAGE RATES FOR OVERSEAS LETTERS NOW IN FORCE. Great Britnin, Ireland, Canada, Egypt and other British countries (except Australia), I'd each half ounce; Australia and Dependencies, 1d each ounce. United States of America, Italy and all other foreign countries: 21d 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. M. M. SIMPSON, Postmaster.