MAIL NOTICES

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23004, 26 April 1940, Page 13

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, at 9 a.m.; guard's van. 10 a.m.: daily, 1 a.m.; also Nelson (letters only), express goods trains dally (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, 7 a.m.; guard’s van, 8.20 a.m. Ashburton. Geraldine. Temuka, Timaru. Waimate, Oamaru, and Dunedin, express goods Monday to Friday, 7 p.m.; late '■-e letters, 7.45 p.m. Rakala, Ashburton, Timaru, Oamaru. Dunedin. Invercargill, and intermediate offices (expresses), dally, 7.30 a.m.; mall van. 8.35 a.m,; Wednesday and Friday 11.10 a.m.; late fee letters, 11.40 a.m.: guard’s van 12.25 p.m. To-day (Friday), April 29 For North Island, at 5.25 p.m.; late fee letters. 5.55 p.m.: guard's van, 7.10 p.m. train. Parcels, 4.30 p.m. Outgoing Overseas Mails Mails for Australia and countries via Australia will close at 4 p.m. Friday. April 26. Mails for other countries will be closed and forwarded as opportunity offers. Air-Mail Services Trans-Tasman weekly air-mail service: Mail closes this office midnight, Friday, April 26. Rates: Australia, 5d each Joz; British countries served by Empire air mails, Egypt, and Iraq, Is 6d each Joz; foreign countries, existing rates plus 6d each Joz, Air mails within New Zealand close at the Chief Post Office, Christchurch:— North-bound: Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, 9 a.m. South-bound: Monday. Wednesday, and Friday, at noon, G CLARK. Chief Postmaster.