MAIL NOTICES

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21904, 3 October 1936, Page 25

MAIL NOTICES

(Supplied by the Postal Department.) Mails close as under:— Arthur's Pass, Otlra, Greymouth, Westport. Hokitika, and other offices, Monday, Tuesday. Thursday. Saturday, 9 а. guard's van, 10 a.m.; daily, 1 a.m. Express goods train dally (except Saturday and Sunday), 4.45 pm.; late fee. guard’s van, 6 p.m.; Saturday, 5.25 p.m.; fete fee, guard’s vato, 7.25 pm.; also Nelson (letters only j. Picton and Nelson (letters only), Blenheim, Kaikoura, Clarence Bridge, Kekerangu. and Seddon (via Parnassus), daily, 6 am.; guard’s van. 7.55 am. • Ashburton, Geraldine, Temuka, Timaru. Waimate, Oamaru, Dunedin, express good? train daily, 7 p.m.; late fee, 7.45 pm. Rakaia', Ashburton, Timaru, Oamaru, Dunedin. Invercargill, and intermediate offices (expresses), Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, 7.30 am.;' mail van, 8.35 am.; Wednesday and Friday, 11.10 am.-; late fee letters, 11.45 am.; guard's van, 12.25 pm. To-day .(Saturday), October 3 For North Island and Nelson district, at 5.25 p.m.; late fee letters, 5.55 pm.: guard’s van. 7.10 p.m. train. Parcels. 5 pm. Mails for Victoria. South and Western Australia, and Tasmania, via Melbourne. per Waitaki from Bluff, close at 8 p.m.. Letters only, 7.30 pm. Sunday. Sunday, October 4 For Timaru, Oamaru, Dunedin. Invercargill. and intermediate offices, per night express (letters only), at 7.30 p.m.; late fee (guard’s van), for Dunedin and offices south thereof, 11.2 pm. train. Monday, October 5 For North Island and Nelson district, at 5.25 p.m.; late fee letters, 5.55 pm.; guard's van. 7.10 p.m. train. Parcels, 5 pm.> , „ T . Mails for Apia, Pago Pago, and Niue Island, per Maul Pomare from Wellington, close at 5.35 p.m.; late fee letters, 5.55 p.m.; guard's van, 7.10 p.m. train. Per inland air mail, 9 a.m. Tuesday, October б. Outgoing Overseas Mails Malls tor Australian .States, Egypt, China, Japan. Straits Settlements. Ceylon, India, South Africa, and Italy, per Wanganella from Auckland, close per steamer express, 5.25 p.m.; late fee letters, 5.55 p.m.; guard’s van, 7.10 p.m. train, Tuesday, October 6. Parcels 4 p.m. Monday. Per Inland air mall, 9 am. Wednesday, October 7. Connects with Austra-lia-Singapore-England air-mall services. Due London October 26. : ' Mails for Great Britain, Ireland, and Continent of Europe (specially addressed correspondence only), Central America, South American Western States, and Jamaica, via Panama, per Tamaroa from Auckland, close per steamer express at 5.25 p.m.; late fee letters, 5.55 p.m.; guard’s van, 7.10 p.m. train Wednesday, October 7. Parcels noon Tuesday. Per Inland air mall, 9 a.m. Thursday, October 8, Due London November 11. Mails for Great Britain, Ireland,- and Continent of Europe, United* States of America, Canada, West Indies, and Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Falkland Islands, via Vancouver, also Fiji, Hawaii, and Japan, per Aorangi from Auckland, per steamer express, close at 5.25 pm,; late fee letters, 5.55 p.m.; guard’s van, 7.10 p.m. train Saturday, October 10. Per inland air mail, 9 a.m. Monday. October 12. Due London November 9. Correspondence will also be accepted for dispatch by air-mail services to Canada and United States of America. Incoming Overseas Mails English and American mail, ex Mariposa from San Pedro, via Auckland, due October 4. „ Australian mail, including air mail dispatched from London September 14, ex South Africa from Sydney, via Dunedin, due October 5. Australian mail, ex Wanganella from Sydney, via Auckland, due October 8. English and American mall, ex Makura from San Francisco, due October 13. Australian mail, ex Awatea from Sydney, due October 13. Air-Mall Service Air-mail correspondence for Great Britain, Ireland, Europe. Egypt, South Africa, and intermediate countries served by Australia-Slngapore-England air mail. Next dispatch, per Wanganella from Auckland, per steamer express, 5.25 p.m. Tuesday, October 6. Per inland air mall. 9 a.m. Wednesday, October 7. Due London October 26' Air Malls Within New Zealand Air mails within New Zealand close at the Chief Post Office, Christchurch. North-bound. 9 a.m.; south-bound. 10.10 a.m. F. W. FURBY. Chief Postmaster. DAMAGED AIR-MAIL The Chief Postmaster, Christchurch, reports that advice has been received from Delhi, India, that when the Imperial Airways aeroplane Athena caught fire at Delhi on September 29 there were 10 bags for New Zealand out of 12 salvaged, and they were sent by relief aeroplane on September 30. The mails concerned were probably dispatched from London on September 24.