MAIL NOTICES
ALTERATION IN TIME OF DESPATCH. Commencing to-day, mails for despatch by The Steamer Express to Wellington on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, will close.at Ashburton at 2.45 p.m., late fee at 3.10 p.m. and guard’s van 3.37 p.m. On; tlve above-mentioned days the clearance of street posting-boxes in the town area will ho made at 9 a.m., 2.30 p.m. and 4.45 p.m., and in the outer area, at 9 a.m. and 1.30 p.m. There will he no alteration in the closing time of North Island mails on Tuesdays, Thursdays and 'Saturdays. Mails for the north close at Ashburton as follow: Monday 0n1y—4.30 a.m.; 10.30 a.m.; guard’s van 11.10 amj 2.45 p.m., late fee at Post Office 3.10 p.m., guard’s can 3.37. Tuesday and Thursday—7 a.m., 10.30 a.m., guard’s van 11.10 a.m., 5 p.m., late fee at Post Office. 5.25 p.m., guard’s van 5.56 p.m. Wednesday and Friday—7 a.m., 10.30 a.m., guard’s van 11,10 a.m. ; 2.45 p.m., late fee at Post Office 3.10 p.m., guard’s van 3-.(17 p.m. (including North Island); 5 p.m., late 1 fee at Post Office 5.25 p.m., guard’s van 5.56 p.m. (not to North Island). Saturdays only—7 a.m., 11.30 a.m., late fee at guard’s van 12.10 1 p.m.; 12.30 p.m.; guard’s van 5.56 p.m. Monday to Friday (inclusive) 8 p.m. letters only for Christchurch. Mails for the south close as follow: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday—9.3o a.m., late foe at Post Office 9.55 a.m., late fee at guard’s van 10.4 a.m. Wednesday and Friday—9.3o a.m., lato fee at Post Office 9.55 a.m., late fee at guard’s van 10.4 a.m.; 1.20 p.m., late fee at Post Office 1.45 p.m, guard’s van 2.6 p.m. Monday to Friday (inclusive) —8 p.m., letters only Timaru, Oamaru, Dunedin and south of Dunedin. Air Mail Services. Trans-Tasman air mails will be despatched as opportunity offers. Air mails within Ncav Zealand close at the Ashburton Post Office; Northbound'—Monday to Friday inclusive, at 8 p.m., also at 4.3 Q a.m,, on Monday -South-bound—Monday to Friday at 7 a.m. Trans-Pacific Air Mail Service.
Closes 7 a.m. Thursday, July 17. Rates: Now Caledonia, Is each -Joz; Canton Island, Is 9d each -J-oz; Hawaii, 2s 6d each Aoz; United States, ,4s each loz; Hong Kong, :3s 3d each Joz; Great Britain, os Pd each A-oz. Postcards, half letter .rates. Overseas Mails (Outward). Mails for overseas will be closed and forwarded as opportunity offers.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 228, 9 July 1941, Page 8
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396MAIL NOTICES Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 228, 9 July 1941, Page 8
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