MAIL NOTICES

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23087, 1 August 1940, Page 4

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.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, 5 p.m.; late fee letters, 6 p.m. Hakaia, Ashburton, Timaru, Oamaru, Dunedin, Invercargill, and intermediate offices (expresses), daily, 7.30 a.m.; mail 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. For NorUi Island, at 5 p.m.: late fee letters, 6 p.m.: guard’s van, 7.10 p.m. Wain. Parcels, 4.30 p.m. Outgoing Overseas Mails Mails for Australia and countries via Australia will close at 4 p.m. Thursday, August 1. Mails for other countries will oe closed and forwarded as opportunity offers. Air-Mall Services Trans-Pacific air-mail service. Next flight closes noon Wednesday, August 14. due San Francisco August 21. Rates: New Caledonia, is each ioz; Canton Island, Is 9d each ioz; Hawaii, 2s 6d each ioz; United States and Canada, 4s each ioz; Hong Kong. 5s 3d each ioz; Great Britain, 6s 3d each ioz. Postcards, half letter rates. 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