MAIL NOTICES

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21449, 15 April 1935, Page 19

MAIL NOTICES

'Supplied by the Postal Department.) Mails close as under:— Arthur's Pass, Otira, Greymouth, Westport, Hokitika, and other offices, Monday, 7 a.m., Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, 9 a.m.; guard's van, -10 a.m. Express goods train daily (except Sunday), 4.45 p.m.; also Nelson (letters only). Pieton and Nelson (letters only), Blenheim, Kaikoura, Clarence Bridge, Kekerangu, and Seddon (via Parnassus), daily, 6 a.m.; guard's van, 7.55

Ashburton, Geraldine, Temuka, Timaru, Waimate, Oamaru, Dunedin, express goods train daily, 7 p.m.; late fee, 7.45 p.m.

Rakaia, Ashburton, Timaru, Oamaru, Dunedin, Invercargill, and intermediate offices (expresses), Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, 7.30 a.m.; mail van, 8.35 a.m., and Wednesday and Friday, 11.10 a.m.; late fee, 11.45 a.m.: guard's van, 12.25 p.m.

To-day iMonday), April 15

For northern ports, at 5.20 p.m.; late l'ee letters, 5.55 p.m.; guard's van, 7.10 p.m. train. Parcels, 4 p.m. Mails for Chatham Islands, per Tees from Lyttelton, close at 11 a.m.; late fee letters (guard's van), 12.10 p.m. train. Mails for Great Britain, Ireland and Continent of Europe (specially addressed correspondence only), also Central /.meriea and South American Western States, via Panama, per Somerset from Wellington, close at 5.25 p.m., late fee letters 5.55 p.m., guard's van 7.10 p.m. train. Due London May 28. Parcels noon.

Mails for Great Britain, Ireland and Continent of Europe, United States oi America, Canada, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Falkland Islands and Argentina, via San Francisco, also Cook Islands and Tahiti, per Makura from Wellington, close at 5.25 p.m., late fee letters 5.55 p.m., guard's van 7.10 p.m. train. Due London May 14. Correspondence will also be accepted for dispatch bv air-mail services in Canada and United States of America. Mails l'or Australian States and Japan, per Sydney Maru from Wellington, close at 5.25 p.m.; late fee letters, 5.55 p.m.. guard's van, 7.10 p.m. train, Parcels, 4 p.m.

Tuesday, April 1G

I<Yr northern ports, at 5.25 p.m.; late fee; letters, 5.55 p.m.: guard's van, 7.10 p.m. train. Parcels, 4 p.m. Mails for Great Britain, Ireland and Continent of Europe (specially addressed correspondence only), via Cape Horn, per Port Bowen at Wellington close at 5.25 p.m.; late fee letters, 5.55 p.m.; guard's van, 7.10 p.m. train. Due London May 27. Mails for Great Britain, Ireland and Continent of Europe (specially addressed correspondence only), also Central America and South American Western States, via Panama, per Turakina from Wellington, close at 5.25 p.m., late fee letters 5.55 p.m., guard's van 7.10 p.m. train. Parcels noon. Due London June (i.

Outgoing Overseas Mails

Mails for Australian States, Egypt, Japan, China, Straits Settlements, Ceylon, India, and South Africa, per Monowai from Wellington, close at 5.25 p.m., late fee letters 5.55 p.m., guard's van 7.10 p.m. train, Thursday. April J 8 Parcels 4 p.m. Connects with Australia. Singapore-England air-mail services. Due London May G. Letter mails for Great Britain, Ireland and Continent of Europe (correspondence must be marked "via Australia"), per Monowai from Wellington, close at 5.25 p.m.. late fee letters 5.55 p.m.. guard's van 7.10 p.m. train, Thursday. April 18. Due London May 25. Mails for Apia. Pago Pago, and Nine Island, per Maui Pomare from Wellington, close Monday, April 22, at 7 a.m., late fee letters guard's van 7.10 p.m. tram. Mails for Tonga, per Port Whangarei from Auckland, close at 5.25 p.m., late fee letters 5.55 p.m., guard's van 7.10 p.m. train, Wednesday, April 24. Incoming Overseas Mails Australian mail, ex Makura from Svdney, due April 16. 'English and American mail, ex Niagara from Vancouver, via Auckland, due April 17. Australian mail, ex Monowai from Svdnev, via Auckland, due April 17. 'English and American mail, ex Mariposa from San Pedro, via Auckland, due April 23. English mail, ex Malaroa from London, via Auckland, due April 27. F. W. FURBY, Chief Postmaster. AIR MAIL DUE TO-DAY (PRS33 A33OCIATIOH TZLIQRAU.t WELLINGTON, April 14. The air mail for New Zealand which left London on March 30 is due at. Auckland on Monday by the Monowai. CABLE CONCESSION RATES All parts of the British Empire will enjoy a special Silver Jubilee cable concession from May 4 till May 11, inclusive. During this period it will bo possible to send a cable message from New Zealand to the United Kingdom at a flat rate of 4s for 10 words and 5d for each word over 10 (the full cable rate to Great Britain is Is 8d a word, and the normal deferred rate lOd a word). The text must be in plain language, but groups of figures denoting numbers and quantities, and isolated letters or commercial marks used to describe articles under order may be included, the conditions of acceptance being generally the same as those which apply to daily letter telegrams. Jubilee letter telegrams will be delivered on the morning of the second day after lodgment.