MAIL NOTICES

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23132, 23 September 1940, Page 8

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. 9 a.m.; guard's van, 10 a.m.; daily. 1 a-in.; also Nelson fletfers only), express goods train daily (except Saturday and Sunday), 4.45 p.m.; late fee, guard’s van, o p.m.; Saturday. 5 p.m,; late fee, guards van, 7.25 p.m. Picton, Blenheim, Kaikoura, 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.; mad van, 8.35 a.m.; Wednesday and Friday, 11.10 a.m.; late fee letters, 11.45 am.; guard's van, 12.25 p.m. For North Island, at 5 p.m,; late fe* letters, 6 p.m.; guard’s van “ 7.10 p.m. train. Parcels. 4.30 p.m. Outgoing Overseas Mails Mails for Australia and countries vil Australia will close at noon on Wednesday, September 25. Mails for other countries will be closed and forwarded as opportunity offers. Air-Mi,-. 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; due San Francisco October 2. Rates: New Caledonia, Is each Joz: Canton Island, Is 9d each Joz; Hawaii, 2s Cd each Joz; United States and Canada, 4s each Joz; Hong Kong, 5s 3d each Joz; Great Britain, 5s 9d each Joz. Postcards, halt letter rates.

Air mails within New Zealand dose 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 ir blue box in vestibule. G. CLARK, Chief Postmaster