MAIL NOTICES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 August 1939, Page 4

MAIL NOTICES

DISPATCHES FROM MASTERTON. Mails will close at the Post Office, Masterton, as under: — SATURDAY, AUGUST 5. Parcel mails for Fiji, Tahiti, Fanning Island, Hawaiian Islands, Canada and America, by Aorangi (from Auckland), noon. MONDAY, AUGUST 7. Canada, United States of America, Mexico, West Indies, Argentine, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Falkland Islands;. also letters only for Continent of Europe ,via Vancouver, also Fiji, Tahiti and Japan, Fanning Island and Hawaiian Islands, by Aorangi (from Auckland), 10.15 a.m.; late fee, 10.45 a.m. Mail closes at Auckland 9 a.m. Tuesday; due Vancouver August 25. Note: Newspaper rate of postage to United States of America is |d for each two ounces. Correspondence will also be accepted for airmail services in America; also Honolulu-San Francisco PanAmerican Airways Service. TUESDAY, AUGUST 8. Apia. Pago Pago and Niue Island, by Maui Pomare, 8.30 a.m. Parcel mail, 3.30 p.m., Monday, August 7. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9. Great Britain, Ireland, Canada and Newfoundland (letters only), due London, August 24, also by 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, Malay, Egypt, East and South Africa, Italy, Balkans and Norfolk Island, by Awatea, 8.30 a.m.; late fee, 9 a.m. Parcel mail and secondclass matter, 3.30 p.m., Tuesday, August 8. OVERSEAS MAILS (Inward). (Arrival Dates Approximate Only.) August 5. —S.S. Monterey, from San Pedro, via Auckland: English secondclass matter, American and Canadian mail. August 7. —S.S. Awatea, from Sydney: English letter mail and Australian mail. August 10.—S.S. Arawa, from London: English parcel mail. English letter mails which left Wellington on July 6 and 7 arrived London July 21. English letter mail which left Wellington on July 12 arrived at London July 27. English letter mail which left Wellington on July 13 arrived at London on July 30. AIRMAILS. Inland air-mails will close at Masterton as under: — Auckland and District. —Monday to Friday, 6.30 a.m.; Saturday/ G. 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. M. M. SIMPSON, Postmaster.

NEW POSTAGE RATES FOR OVERSEAS LETTERS NOW IN FORCE. Great Britain, Ireland, Canada, Egypt and all other British countries (except Australia), lid each half ounce; Australia and Dependencies, Id each ounce. United States of America, Italy and all other foreign countries: 2£d first ounce, 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. MASTERTON CLOSING HOURS. Wellington, Monday to Friday (letters only), 6.30 a.m.,(8.30 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, Greytown, 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 Bay, Woodville. 10.15 a.m., 2 p.m., daily. Eketahuna, Pahiatua, 10.15 a.m., 2 p.m. daily, 5.30 a.m., Tues., Thurs., Sat.