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. 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, Walmate, Oamaru, and Dunedin, express goods, Monday to Friday, 5 p.m.; late fee letters, -6 p.m. Rakala, Ashburton, Timaru, Oamaru, Dunedin, Invercargill, and intermediate offices, expresses daily, 7.30 a.m.; late fee. 8 a.m.; mall van, 8.35 a.m.; Wednesday and Friday, 11.10 a.m.; late fee, 11.45 a.m.; guard’s van, 12.25 p.m. Sunday only: Timaru, Oamaru, Dunedin, Invercargill, and intermediate offices (letters only), night express. 7.30 p.m.; guard's van, 11 p.m. For North Island. 5 p.m.; late fee letters. 6 p.m.; guard’s van, 7.10 p.m. train. Parcels. 4.30 p.m. Air Mails Within New Zealand Air mails within New Zealand close at Chief Post Office, Christchurch: Northbound, Tuesday to Saturday, inclusive, 0 a.m.; south-bound, Monday to Friday, Inclusive, noon. Trans-Tasman Air Mall Service
Malls close this office as opportunity offers. • . .
Rates: Australia, 5d each Joz; British countries served by Empire air-mail services, Is 0d each ioz. United Kingdom air mall to Cape Town and surface to London, Is 6d each Joz. Foreign countries. special rates, apply at Post Office.
Trans-Pacific Air Mall Service Closes noon Thursday, July 17. Rates: New Caledonia, Is each Joz; Canton Island, Is 8d each Joz; Hawaii, 2s 6d each Joz; United States, 4s each Joz; Hong Kong, Ss 3d each Joz; Great Britain, 5s 9d each Joz. Postcards, half letter rates. V. C. LAWN, Chief Postmaster.
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Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23378, 11 July 1941, Page 5
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311MAIL NOTICES Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23378, 11 July 1941, Page 5
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