MAIL NOTICES

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23379, 12 July 1941, Page 7

MAIL NOTICES

♦ (Supplied by the Postal Department.) Mails will close at the Chief Post Office, Christchurch, as under:— Arthur’s Pass, Otlra, Grey mouth, 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, guards van, 7.25 p.m. Picton, 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, 8 p.m. - Rakaia, Ashburton, Timaru, Oamaru, Dunedin, Invercargill, and intermediate offices, expresses dally, 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, tram. Parcels. 4.30 p.m.'

Air Malls Within New Zealand Air malls within New Zealand close at Chief Post Office, Christchurch: Northbound, Tuesday to. Saturday, inclusive, 9 a.m.; south-bound, Monday to Friday, inclusive. noon.

Trans-Tasman Air Mail Service Mails close this office as opportunity offers. • Rates: Australia, 5d each ioz;' British countries served by Empire'air-mail services. Is 6d each ioz. United Kingdom air mail to Cape Town and surface to London, Is 6d each ioz. Foreign countries, special rates, apply at Post Office. Trans-Pacific Air Mail Service . Closes noon Thursday, July 17. Rates: New Caledonia, Is each ioz; Canton island, Is 9d each ioz; Hawaii, 2s 6d each ioz; United States. 4s each ioz; Hong Kong, 5s 3d each ioz; Great Britain, 5s 9d each ioz. Postcards, half letter rates. V. C. LAWN, Chief Postmaster.