MAIL NOTICES

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23088, 2 August 1940, Page 7

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 pun.; late fee letters, 6 p.m. Rakaia, Ashburton, Timaru, Oamaru, Dunedin. Invercargill, and intermediate offices (expresses), daily, 7.30 a.m.; mall van. 8.35 am.; Wednesday and Friday, 11.10 am.; late' fee letters, 11.40 am.; guard's van, 12.25 pm. For North Island, at 5 p.m.; late, fee letters. 6 p.m.; guard’s van, 7.10 p.nu train. Parcels, 4.30 pm. Outgoing Overseas Mails Mails for Australia and countries' via Australia will close at noon on Tuesday; August 6. Mails for Chatham Islands close at 1 p.m. Friday, August 9. .Mails for other countries will be closed and forwarded as opportunity offers. Air-Mall Services Trans-Tasman air-mall service; - Mail closes this office, on Monday, August 5, at midnight, and Monday, August 12: Rates: Australia. 5d each ioz, British countries between Australia and Egypt served by Empire air malls, Egypt, and Iraq, Is 6d each ioz; foreign countries between Australia and Egypt, special rates, apply at Post Office. Trans-Pacific air-mail service. Next flight closes noon Wednesday, August 14, due San Francisco August 21. Rates; New Caledonia, Is each Joz; 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.