MAIL NOTICES

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23086, 31 July 1940, Page 6

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.; dally, 1 a.m.; also Nelson (letters only), express goods train daily (except Saturday and Sunday), 4.45 p.m.; late fee. guard's van. C p.m,; Saturday, 5 p.m.; late fee, guards van, 7,25 p.vn. Picton, Blenheim, Katkoura. Clarence Bridge, Kekerangu, and Seddon (via Parnassus), daily. 7 a.m.: guard's van, 8.20 a.m, . Ashburton, Geraldine, Tcmuka, Timaru, Wnlmate, Oamaru, and Dunedin, express goods, Monday to Friday, 5 p.m.; late fee letters. 8 p.m. Rakaia, Ashburton, Timaru. Omnnru, Dunedin, Invercargill, and intermediate offices (expresses), daily, 7-50 a.m.; man van, 8.33 a.m.; Wednesday and Friday, U.lO a.m.; late fee letters, 11.40 a.m.; guard's van 12.25 p.m. ■ , For North* Island, at a p.m,! late fee letters. 0 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 Werines : day, July 31. Mails for other countries will be closed and-forwarded as opportunity offers. Air-Mall Services Trans-Tasman weekly air-mail service; mail closes this office, on Wednesday, 8 p.m. Rates; Australia, 3d each Joz, British countries between Australia and Eevpt served by Empire air mails, Egypt, and Iraq, Is 6d each Joz: foreign countries between Australia and Egypt, special rates, apply at Post Office. M Trans-Paclfic air-mail service. Next flight closes , noon Wednesday, July 31. duo San Francisco August 7, Rales. New Caledonia, Is each joz; Canton Island. 1b 9cl each Joz; Hawaii, 2s 6d each Joz. United States and Canada. 4s each Joz, Hong Kong, 5s 3d each joz; Great Britain, 6s 3d each Joz', Postcards, hall letter Air molls within New Zealand close at the Chief Post Office, Chrialclnii'Ch;-Norlh-bound; Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, 9 a.m. South-bound: Monday. Wednesday, and Friday, at noon. G. CLARK, Chief Postmaster. The Post Office advises that closing times for the next trans-Tasman air mail are:—Auckland, Thursday, 10 a.m.; Wellington; Christchurch, Dunedin, Wednesday, 8 p.m. At other places . the times will be co-ordinated; but correspondence must reach Auckland not later ’- ian Thursday morning by train, or alternaby Thursday's air mail.