MAIL NOTICES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 August 1939, Page 9

MAIL NOTICES

DISPATCHES FROM MASTERTON. Mails will close at the Post Office, Masterton, as under:— AMERICA OUT MONDAY. Next dispatch for Great Britain: Awatea, August 18, 6.30 a.m.; due London August 31. FRIDAY, AUGUST 18. Central America, Jamaica, Chile. Bolivia and South American Western States, via Cristobal, by Port Halifax (from Auckland), 5 p.m.; late fee, 5.30 p.m. Second-class matter, 10.15 a.m. 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), Friday, August 18, 6.30 a.m. Netherlands, East Indies, by Maetsuycker, 3.30 p.m.; late fee, 3.45 pm. SATURDAY, AUGUST 19. Great Britain, Ireland, Ceylon, India, Egypt and East Africa (letters only), (due London, September 2); also airmail correspondence for foreign countries (special rates apply) served by the Empire air service, by Maunganui, 6.30 а. Australian States, China, Malaya and South Africa, by Maunganui, 6.30 a.m. Parcel mail and second-class matter, 3.30 p.m., Friday. Parcel mail&for Pago Pago, Fiji, Tahiti, Hawaiian Islands and America, by Mariposa (from Auckland), 10 a.m. United States of America, Canada. Mexico, West Indies, Argentine, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Falkland Islands; also letters for Continent of Europe, via San Pedro, Apia, Pago Pago, Fiji, Tahiti, Japan and Hawaiian Islands, by Monterey (from Auckland), 5 p.m.; late fee. 5.30 p.m. Second-class matter, 10.15 a.m. Mail closes at Auckland, 3 p.m. Monday; due San Pedro September 4. Note: Newspaper rate 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, August 21, 6.30 a.m. Nauru Island, by Larchbank (from Auckland), 5 p.m. OVERSEAS MAILS (Inward). (Arrival Dates Approximate Only.) August 17—Wanganella, from Sydney, via Auckland: English letter mail, Australian and beyond Australia mail for Wellington, 66 bags, 93 parcel receptacles. August 17.—S.S. Awatea, from Sydney: English letter mail and Australian mail. August 22.—R.M.5. Monowai, from Vancouver, via Auckland: English sec-ond-class mail matter,. American and Canadian mail. August 24.—5.5. Rangitane, from London, via Auckland: English parcel mail. English letter mail, which left Wellington on July 21, arrived at London on August 3. 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), 3.30 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, 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 i 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. Great Britain, Ireland, Canada. Egypt and all other British countries (except Australia), ltd each half ounce;] Australia and Dependencies, Id each] ounce.