MAIL NOTICES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 May 1939, Page 11

MAIL NOTICES

DISPATCHES FROM MASTERTON. Mails will be closed at Masterton as under: — Britain via Panama Tuesday. AUSTRALIA NEXT FRIDAY. MONDAY, MAY 22. Great Britain, Ireland and Continent of Europe (second-class matter and parcels only); also letters, etc., for Central America, Jamaica and South American Western States, via Cristobal, by Remuera, 3.30 p.m.; late fee, 3.45 p.m. Mails reach London approximately June 30. Correspondence will be accepted for dispatch by airmail services in North, South and Central America, also West Indies. WEDNESDAY, MAY 24. Pitcairn Island, Centra? America, Jamaica and South American Western States, via Cristobal, by Akaroa (from Auckland), 1 5 p.m.; late fee, 5.30 p.m. Parcels and second-class matter. 10.15 а. 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. extra), Thursday, May 25. б. a.m. All States of South America, via Montevideo, by Port Wellington (from Dunedin), (Rangatira), 1 p.m.; late fee, 1.30 p.m. Parcel mail and secondclass matter. Also by inland airmail (Id an oz. extra), 5. p.m. FRIDAY, MAY 26. Great Britain and Ireland (letters only, due London, June 8); also airmail correspondence for foreign countries (special ratesapply) served by the Empire air services, by Awatea, 8.30 а. 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. Parcel mail and second-class matter, 3.30 p.m., Thursday, May 25. 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. English letter mail which left Wellington on April 26 arrived at London May 11. English letter mails which left Wellington on April 27 and 28 arrived at London on May 13. 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 a.m.; 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), 6.30 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 Britain, Ireland, Canada, Egypt and *ll other British countries (except Australia), l£d each half ounce; Australia and Dependencies, Id each ounce. United States of America, Italy and all other foreign countries: 2Jd first ounce. l|d 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.