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, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, 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, guard’s van, 7.25 p.m. Picton, Blenheim, Kaikoura, Clarence Bridge, Kekerangu, and Seddon (via Parnassus), daily 6 a.m.; guard’s van, 7.55 a.m. Ashburton, Geraldine, Temuka, Timaru, Waimate, Oamaru, and Dunedin, express goods "daily, 7 p.m.;i late fee letters 7.45 P.m. • 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 letters, 11.45 a.m.; guard’s van, 12.25 p.m. Best dispatch for Great Britain, Aorangl, 5.25 p.m. Saturday, March 19. To-day (Saturday), March 19 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. Malls for Great Britain, Ireland, and Continent of Europe, United States of America, Canada, West' Indies and Mexico, Falkland Islands, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, via Vancouver, also Fiji, Hawaii, Tahiti, Japan, and Fanning Island, per Aorangi from Auckland, 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, 9 a.m. Monday, March 21. Due London April 19. Correspondence will also be accepted for dispatch by air-mail services in Canada and United States of America. Mails for New South Wales, Queensland, and Dutch East Indies, per Swartenhondt 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.-) By inland air mail, 9 a.m. Monday, March 21. Connects with Australia-Singapore-England air-mail services. Due London April 6. Mails for Victoria, South and Western Australia, and Tasmania, per Maunganui from Bluff, close at 8 p.m. Letters only, 7.30 p.m. Sunday. Sunday, March 20 For Timaru, Oamaru, Dunedin, Invercargill, and intermediate offices, per night express (letters only), at 7.30 p.m.; late fee letters, guard’s van, for Durvedin and offices south thereof, 11.2 p.m, train. Monday, March 21 For Nortli 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 Chatham Islands, per Tees from Lyttelton, close at 10 a.m.; late fee letters, guard’s van, 11 a.m, train. Mails for Great Britain, Ireland, and Continent of Europe (specially addressed correspondence only). Central America. South American Western States, and Jamaica, via Panama, per Fort Auckland 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, no connexion. Due London April 28. Mails for Apia, Pago Pago, and Niue Island, per Maui Pomare 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 mall, 9 a.m. Tuesday, March 22 Mails for Australian States, South .Africa, China, Japan, Egypt, India, Ceylon, Italy, Straits Settlements, per Awatea from Auckland, 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, 9 a.m. Wednesday, March 23. Connects with Australia-Singapore-England air-mail service. Due London April 10. Outgoing Overseas Mails
Mails for Great Britain, Ireland, and Continent of Europe, Central America, South American Western Slates and Jamaica, via Panama, per Dunedin Star from Lyttelton, close at 3 p.m.; late fee letters, 3.50 p.m. train, Tuesday, March 22. Due London April 23.
Incoming Overseas Mails English and American mail, ex Monterey from San Pedro, via Auckland, due March 20. Australian mail, ex Awatea from Sydney, due March 22. English mail, ex Middlesex from Glasgow, via Auckland, due March 22. English taail, ex iTamaroa from London, via Auckland, due March 29. Air-Mail Services Air mail correspondence for Great Britain, Ireland, Europe. Egypt, South Africa, and Intermediate countries served by Australia-Singapore-England air mail.. Next dispatch, per Swartenhondt from Wellington, close at 5.25 p.m. Saturday, March 19. By Inland air mall, 9 a.m. Monday, March 21. Due London April 6. Air Mails Within New Zealand Air mails within New Zealand close at the Chief Post Office. Christchurch, daily, including Sunday: North-bound, 9 a.m.; south-bound, noon. F. W. FURBY, Chief Postmaster.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22355, 19 March 1938, Page 15
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709MAIL NOTICES Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22355, 19 March 1938, Page 15
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