MAIL NOTICES

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23094, 9 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 pun,; late fee. guard’s van, 7.25 p.m. Picton, Blenheim, Kaikoura, Clarence Bridge, Kekerangu, and Seddon (via Hundalee), dally, 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 pun. Rakaia, Ashburton, Timaru, Oamaru, Dunedin, Invercargill, and intermediate offices, expresses, daily, 7.30 a.m.: mail van. 8.35 aun.; Wednesday and Friday, 11.10 a.m.; late "fee letters, 11.45 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. For Chatham Islands at II a.m.; late fee letters, 12.10 p.m. train Monday August 12. Outgoing Overseas Mails Mails for Australia and countries via Australia will close at 8 p.m. on Saturday, August 10. Malls for Chatham Islands close at 1 p.m. Friday, August 9. Mails for other countries will be closed and forwarded as opportunity, offers. • Air-Mail Services . Trans-Tasman air-mail service: Mail closes this office at midnight on Monday, August 12. - Rates; Australia, Ed each Joz, British countries between Australia and Egypt served by Empire air malls, Egypt, and Iraq, Is 6d each Joz: foreign countries ■ between Australia and Egypt, special rates, apply at Post Office. Trans-Pacific air-mall - service: Next flight ■ closes noon Wednesday, August 14, due San Francisco August 21. Rates: New Caledonia, Is each Joz; Canton Island, Is 9d 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, half letter rates, . Air mails within New Zealand close at the Chief Post Office. Christchurch:— North-bound Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturdav, B a.m. South-bound: Monday. Wednesday, and Friday, at>-noon. Post In blue box In Vestibule. : G. CLARK, - Chief Postmaster,