MAIL NOTICES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 May 1939, Page 4

MAIL NOTICES

: ■ ■» ; < • DISPATCHES FROM MASTERTON. Mails will be closed at Masterton as under:— WEDNESDAY, MAY 24. Pitcairn Island, Centra? America, Jamaica and South American Western States, via Cristobal, by Akaroa (from Auckland), 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. 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 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. Parcel mail and second-class matter, 3.30 p.m., Thursday, May 25. SATURDAY, MAY 27. Parcel mails for Fiji, Tahiti, Pago Pago, Hawaiian Islands and America, by Mariposa (from Auckland), 10.15 a.m. / All States of South America, via Montevideo, by Port Wellington (from Dunedin), (Rangatira), 1 p.m. Also by inland airmail (Id an oz. extra), 5 p.m. United States of America, Canada, Mexico and West Indies; also letters for Continent of Europe, via San Pedro, Fiji, Tahiti, Apia, Pago Pago, Japan and Hawaiian Islands, by Mariposa (from Auckland), 5 p.m.; late fee, 5.30 p.m. Mail closes at Auckland 3 p.m. Monday; due San Pedro June 12. Note: Newspaper rates 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. extra), Monday, May 29, 6.30 a.m. INCOMING OVERSEAS MAILS. (Arrival Dates Approximate Only.) May 23.—5.5. Awatea, from Sydney: English letter mail and Australian mail. May 24. —Muko Maru, from Miike, via Auckland: Eastern mail for Wellington, 4 bags. May 24. —S.S. Tekoa, from Liverpool, via Auckland: English parcel mail for Wellington, 60 parcel receptacles. May 24. —M.V. Wanganella, from Sydney, via Auckland, Australian parcel mail for Wellington; 11 parcel receptacles. May 29. —R.M.S. Aorangi, from Vancouver, via Auckland: English secondclass matter, American and Canadian mail. May 30. —S.S. Mariposa, from Sydney, via Auckland: English letter mail and Australian 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), 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 will be accepted up to the time of closing letter mails. M. M. SIMPSON, NEW POSTAGE RATES FOR 1 OVERSEAS LETTERS NOW IN FORCE. Grea + Britain, Ireland, Canada, Egypt and all other British countries (except Australia), each half ounce; Australia and Dependencies, Id each ounce. United States of America, Italy and all other foreign countries: first ounce, lid 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.