MAIL NOTICES
DISPATCHES FROM MASTERTON. Mails will be closed at Masterton as under:— WEDNESDAY, MAY 17. Great Britain and Ireland secondclass matter and parcels only; also letters, etc., for Continent of Europe, Central America, Jamaica and South American Western States, via Cristobal, by Northumberland, 8.30 a.m.; late fee 9 а. Parcel mail, second-class matter, 3.30 p.m. Tuesday, May 16. Mails reach London approximately June 25. Correspondence will be accepted for dispatch by airmail services in North, South and Central America, also West Indies. Cook Islands, by Matua (from Auckland), 10.15 a.m.; late fee, 10.30 a.m. Also by inland (airmail (Id an oz. extra), 5 p.m. THURSDAY, MAY 18. Great Britain, Ireland, Canada and Newfoundland (letters only), due London June 1, also airmail correspondence for foreign countries (special rates apply) served by the Empire air services, by Tasman, 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 Tasman, 8.30' a.m.; late fee, 9 a.m. Parcel mail, second-class matter, 3.30 p.m. Wednesday, May 17. INCOMING OVERSEAS MAILS. (Arrival Dates Approximate Only.) May 20. —S.S. Tekoa, from Liverpool, via Auckland: English parcel mail for Wellington, 60 parcel receptacles. May 23—S.S. Awatea, from Sydney: English letter mail and Australian mail. May 24.—Muko Maru, from Miike, via Auckland: Eastern mail for Wellington, 4 bags. May 29—R.M.S. Aorangi, from Vancouver, via Auckland: English secondclass matter, American and Canadian mail. 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), б. a.m., 5 p.m. Gisborne—Monday to Friday, 6.30 а. Saturday, 0.30 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. Reef ton.—Daily (except Sunday), 3.30 p.m. Westport.—Daily (except Sunday), 3.30 p.m. Parcels for despatch by air will be accepted up to the time of closing letter mails. NEW POSTAGE RATES FOR OVERSEAS LETTERS NOW IN FORCE. Grea + Britain, Ireland, Canada, Egypt and all other British countries (except Australia), IJd each half ounce; Australia and Dependencies, Id each ounce. M. M. SIMPSON, Postmaster.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 May 1939, Page 4
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396MAIL NOTICES Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 May 1939, Page 4
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