MAIL NOTICES.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20413, 7 December 1931, Page 15

MAIL NOTICES.

(Supplied by the Postal Department.) Mails close as under:— Timaru, Oamaru, Dunedin, Invercargill, and intermediate offices (night expresses), Sunday (letters only), 5.30 p.m.; Dunedin and offices south thereof only, guard's van, 11 p.m. Arthur's Pass, Otira, Greymouth, Westport, Hokitika, and other offices (expresses), Monday, 7.50 a.m., guard's van, 8.20 a.m.; Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, 9 a.m., guard's van 10 a.m.; daily 3.30 p.m. Ashburton, Geraldine, Temuka, Timaru, Waimato, Oamaru, and Dunedin, express goods train daily, 7 p.m., late fee 7.45 p.m. Picton and Nelson (letters only), Blenheim, Kaikoura, Clarence Bridge, Kekerangu, and Seddon (via Parnassus), daily 6 a.m., guard's van. 7.55 a.m. Rakaia, Ashburton, Timaru, Oamaru, Dunedin, Invercargill, and intermediate offices (expresses), Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, 7.30 a.m., mail van 8.35 a.m.; Wednesday and Friday, 11.10 a.m., late fee 11.45 a.m., mail van 12.25 p.m. To-day (Monday), December 7th. For northern ports, at 5.25 p.m.; late fee lotters, 5.55 p.m.; guard's van, 7.10 p.m. giSirS's van, 10 a.m. train. For northern ports at 5.25 p.m., late fee letters 5.65 p.m.; guard's van 7.10 p.m. train. Parcels, i p.m. Tuesday, December Bth. Mails for Chatham Islands, per Tees at Lyttelton, close at 9 a.m. Tuesday; late fee guard's van, 10 a.m. train. Special Air Mail, Auckland-Gisborne and Return. A special aeroplane will leave Auckland for Gisborno and return on Thursday, December 10th, at 9 a.m., stopping at Hamilton and Rotorua, and arriving at Gisborne at noon. Return air mail will leave Gisborne at 3.30 p.m. and reach Auckland at 6.30 p.m. Extra air-mail fee 3d per 02, in addition to ordinary rates of postage. Parcels will not be accepted. Connecting mails will close at 5.25 p.m. Outgoing Overseas Malls. Mails for Great Britain and Europe (specially addressed correspondence only), also Pitca,rn. Island, Central America, and South Amorican Western States, via Panama, per lonic at Auckland, close at 5.25 p.m. Thursday, December 10th. Parcels noon Wednesday. Due London January 18th. Mails for Australian States, Egypt, Japan, China, Straits Settlements, Ceylon, India, and South Africa and Norfolk Island, per Marama from Wellington, close at 5.25 P.m; Thursday, December 10th. Parcels 4 p.m. Connects with Karachi-Lon-don air mail. Due London January 12th. Mails for Apia, Pago Pago, also specially addressed correspondence for Fiji, Honolulu, Canada, and United States of America, per Sonoma from Auckland, close at 5.25 p.m. Thursday, December 10th. Parcels for Pago Pago at noon. Mails for Great Britain, Ireland, and Continent of Europe, /United States of America, Canada, Wost Indies, and Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Falkland Islands, via Vancouver, also Fiji and Hawaii, per Niagara from Auckland, close at 5.25 p.m. Saturday, December }2th. Due London January 14th. Correspondence will also be accepted for dispatch by air-mail services in America. Incoming Overseas Mails. Australian mail, ox Wainui from Melbourne via Bluff, due December Bth. Australian mail, ex Marama from Sydney, duo December 9th. English mail, ex Mataroa from London, due Dei-ember llth. English and American mail, ex Monowai from San Francisco, duo December loth. ' F. J. SHANKS, Chief Postmaster.