MAIL NOTICES

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23080, 24 July 1940, Page 6

MAIL NOTICES

♦ (Supplied by the Postal Department) Malls 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.m.; Saturday, 5 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,'s p.m.; late fee letters, 6 p.m.

Rakaia, Ashburton. Timaru, Oamaru. Dunedin, Invercargill, and intermediate offices (expresses), daily, 7.30 a.m.; mail van, 835 a.m.; Wednesday and Friday, 11.10 a.m.; late fee letters," 11.40 a.m.; guard’s van, 12.25 p.m. For North Island, at 5 p.m,; late fee letters, 6 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 noon on Wednesday, July 31. 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 ioz; British countries between Australia and Egypt served by Empire air mails, Egypt, and Iraq, Is 6d each ioz; foreign countries between Australia and Egypt, special rates, apply at Post Office. Trans-Paiclfic air-mail service. Next flight closes noon Wednesday, July 31, due San Francisco August 7. Rates: New Caledonia, Is each ioz; Canton Island, Is 9d each ioz; Hawaii. 2s 6d each Joz; United States and Canada, 4s each ioz; Hong Kong, 5s 3d each ioz: Great Britain, 6s 3d each ioz. Postcards, half letter rates. Air malls 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.