MAIL NOTICES

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23043, 11 June 1940, Page 9

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 train daily (except Saturday and Sunday). 4.45 p.m.; late fee, guard's van. 6 p.jn.; 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, 8.2Q a.m. Ashburton, Geraldine, Temuka. Timaru, Waimate, Oamaru, and Dunedin, express goods, Monday to Friday, 7 p.m.; late fee letters, 7.45 p.m. Rakaia, Ashburton, Timaru, .Oamaru, Dunedin, Invercargill, and intermediate offices (expresses), daily, 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 (Tuesday), June 11 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 Malls Mails for Australia and countries via Australia, including air' mail correspondence for Australia and beyond, will close at 4 p.m. Wednesday, June 12. 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 each week. Rates: Australia, 5d each Jo?,; British countries served by Empire air mails, Egypt and Iraq, Is 6d each ioz; foreign countries, special rates apply at Post Office. 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.