MAIL NOTICES

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23131, 21 September 1940, Page 17

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 dally (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. Plcton, Blenheim, Kalkoura, Clarence Bridge, Kekerangu, and Seddon (via Hundalee), 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. Rakaia, 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, 11.45 a.m.; guard’s van, 12.25 p.m. For North Island, at 5 p.m.; late fee letters, G p.m.; guard's van, 7.10 p.m. train. Parcels, 4.30 p.m. Outgoing Overseas Malls Mails for Australia and countries via Australia will close at noon on Wednesday, September 25. Mails for other countries will be closed and forwarded as opportunity offers. Air-Ma.i Services Trans-Tasman air-mail service. Mail closes this office at midnight on Monday, September 23. Rates; Australia, 5d each, Joz; British countries between Australia and Egypt served by Empire air mails, Egypt and Iraq, Is 6d each Joz; foreign countries between Australia and Egypt, special rates, apply at Post Office. Trans-Pacific air-mail service: Next flight closes noon Wednesday, September 25; hue San Francisco October 2. 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, 5s 9d rach Joz. Postcards, half letter rates.

Air mails within New Zealand close at the Chief Post Office, Christchurch:— North-bound: Tuesday to Saturday, 9 a.m. South-bound; Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at noon; Tuesday and Thursday, at 9.45 a.m, Post in blue box in vestibule. G. CLARK, Chief Postmaster.