MAIL NOTICES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 June 1939, Page 6

MAIL NOTICES

DISPATCHES FROM MASTERTON. j Mails will be closed at Masterton as under:— MONDAY, JUNE 12. Canada, United States of America, Mexico, West Indies, also letters only for Continent of Europe, via Vancouver; also Fiji. Fanning Island, Japan and Hawaiian Islands, by Niagara (from Auckland), (letters only), 5 p.m.; late fee, 5.30 p.m. Second-class matter, 10 a.m. Mail closes at Auckland, 9 a.m. Tuesday; due Vancouver June 30. Note: Newspaper rate of postage to United States of America is Id for each two ounces. Correspondence will also be accepted for airmail services in America; also Honolulu-San Francisco Pan-American Airways Service. TUESDAY, JUNE 13. Apia,'Pago Pago and Niue Island, by Maui Pomare, 8.30 a.m.; late fee, 9 a.m. Parcel mail, 3.30 p.m., Monday. INCOMING OVERSEAS MAILS (Arrival Dates Approximate Only.) June 10.—S.S. Monterey, from San Pedro, via Auckland: English secondclass matter, American and Canadian

mail. June 16. —S.S. Tamaroa, from London: English parcel 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), 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 Britain, Ireland, Canada. Egypt and all 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. IJd eacn succeeding ounce. The postage rates of all articles except letters remain unchanged. Airmail correspondence for foreign countries served by Empire air services. special rates apnly. M. M. SIMPSON. Postmaster.

MASTERTON CLOSING HOURS. Wellington, Monday to Friday (letters only), 6.30 a.m.,j8.30 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. Clareville, Lower Hutt, Petone, 6.30 a.m., daily. South Island, 1 p.m.. daily. . Carterton, Grey town, Featherston, Martinborough, 6.30 a.m., 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. Wanganui, Taranaki, Palmerston Nth., 10.15 a.m. and 2 p.m., daily. Wanganui, Taranaki, Palmerston Nth,. Auckland (letters only), 5 p.m., daily. Hawke’s Eay, Woodville. 10.15 a.m., 2 p.m., daily.