MAIL NOTICES

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22337, 26 February 1938, Page 22

MAIL NOTICES

(Supplied by the Postal Department.)

Mails will close at the Chief Post Office, Christchurch, as under:—

Arthur's Pass, Otira, Greymouth, Westport. Hokitika. and other offices, daily. 9 a.m.; guard's van, 10 a.m.; daily, 1 a.m.; also Nelson (letters only). Express goods train daily (except Saturday and Sunday), 4.45 p.m.; late fee, guard's van, 6 p.m.; Saturday, 5.25 p.m.; late fee, guards van, 7.25 p.m. „ Picton, Blenheim, Kaikoura, Clarence Bridge, Kekerangu, and Seddon (via Parnassus), daily 6 a.m.; guard's van, TM "Ashburton. Geraldine. Temuka, Timaru, Waimate. Oamaru, and Dunedin, express goods daily, 7 p.m.: late fee letters, 7.45 P- Rakaia, Ashburton, Timaru, Oamaru, Dunedin, Invercargill, and Intermediate offices (expresses). Monday. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. Saturday, 7.30 a.m.; mail van, 8.35 a.m.; Wednesday and Friday, 11.10 a.m.; late fee letter, 11.45 a.m.; guard's van, 12.25 p.m. Best dispatch for Great Britain Port Wyndham, Saturday. February 26. 525 p.m.; late fee letters, 5.55 p.m.; guards van, 7.10 p.m. train.

To-day (Saturday), February 26 For North Island, at 5.25 p.m.; late fee letters, 5.55 p.m.; guard's van, 7.10 p.m. train. Parcels, 5 p.m. Mails for Victoria, South and West Australia, and Tasmania, via Melbourne, per Maunganui from Bluff, close at 8 p.m. Letters only, Sunday, 7.30 p.m., guard's van, 11.2 p.m. Mails for Cook Islands, Tonga. Samoa, per Matua 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. Per inland air mail, 9 a.m. Monday, February 28. . Mails for Great Britain, Ireland, and Continent of Europe, via Cape Horn, per Port Wyndham from Wellington, close at 5.25 p.m.; late fee letters, 5.55 p.m.; late fee, guard's v,an, 7.10 p.m. train. Per inland air mail Monday, February 28, 9 a.m. Due London April 1. Sunday, February 27

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 p.m. train. Monday, February 28 For North Island, at 5.25 p.m.; late fee letters, 5.55 p.m.; guard's van, 7.10 p.m. train. Parcels, 5 p.m. Mails for Australian States, Egypt China, Straits Settlements, Ceylon, Italy, India, South Africa, and Norfolk Islands, per Awatea 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. By inland air mail, Tuesday, March 1, 9 a.m. Connects with Australia-Singa-pore-England air-mail services. Due London March 17. Mails for Great Britain, Ireland, and Continent of Europe (specially addressed correspondence only), also Central America and South American Western States, via Panama, also Jamaica and Pitcairn Island, per Akaroa from Wellington, close at 5.25 p.m.; late fee letters, 5.55 p.m.; guard's van. 7.10 p.m. train. By inland air mail, Tuesday, March 1, 9 a.m. Due London April 4, > Mails for Chatham Islands, per Tees, from Lyttelton, close 10 a.m.; guard's van, 11 a.m. train.

Outgoing Overseas Mails

Mails for Great Britain, Ireland, and Continent of Europe, per Waiwera from Lyttelton, close at 1 p.m.; guard's van, 2.10 p.m. train, Tuesday, March 1. Due London April 1.

Mails tor Great Britain, Ireland, and Continent of Europe, United States of America, Canada, West Indies, Mexico, via San Pedro, also Fiji, Hawaii, Apia, Pago Pago, Falkland Islands, and Japan, per Mariposa 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, Saturday, March 5. By inland air mail, Monday, March 7, 9 a.m. Due London April 1. Correspondence will also be accepted for dispatch by air-mail services in Canada and United States of America. Incoming Overseas Mails Australian mail, ex Wanganella from Sydney, via Auckland, due March 1. Australian mail, ex Awatea from Sydney, due March 2. Australian mail, ex Kaikorai from Sydney; also English air mail dispatched from London February 10, due March 2. English mail, ex Mahana from London, due March 3. English and American mail, ex Aorangi from Vancouver, via Auckland, due March 8. Air-Mail Services Air mail correspondence for Great Britain, Ireland, Europe, Egypt, South Africa, and intermediate countries served by Australia-Singapore-England airmail: Next dispatch, per Awatea from Wellington, closes at 5.25 p.m.; late fee letters, 5.55 p.m.; guard's van, 7.10 p.m.' train Monday, February 23. By inland air mail, March 1, 9 a.m. Due London March 17. F. W. FURBY, Chief Postmaster.