MAIL NOTICES

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23401, 7 August 1941, 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, at 9 a.m.; guard’s van, 10 a.m.; daily 1 am.; also Nelson (letters only), express goods train daily (except Saturday and Sunday), 4.45 p.m.; late fee, guards van, 6 p.m.; Saturday. 5 p.m.; late fee guards van 7.25 p.m. Picton Blenheim, Kaikoura, Clarence Bridge, Kekerangu, and Seddon (via Hundalee), dally, 7 a.m.; guard’s van, a.m. Ashburton, Geraldine, Temuka, Timaru, Waimate, Oamaru. and Dunedin, express goods, Monday to Friday, 5 p.m.; late tee letters, 6 p.m. _ Rakaia, Ashburton, Timaru. Oamaru. Dunedin, Invercargill, and intermediate offices, expresses daily, 7.30 a.m.; late fee 8 a.m.; mail 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 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 Mall Service Mails close this office as opportunity ol ßates: Australia, 5d each Joz; British countries served by Empire air-mall services, Is fid each Joz. United Kingdom air mail to Cape Town and surface to London, Is 6d each Joz. Foreign countries, special rates, apply at Post Office. Trans-Pacific Air Mall Service t Closes noon Tuesday, August, 12. Rates; New Caledonia, Is each Joz; Canton Island Is 9d each Joz; Hawaii 2s 6d each Joz; United States, 4s each Joz; Hong Kong, 5s 3d each Joz; Great Britain. 5s 9d each Joz. Postcards, half letter rates. V. C. LAWN. Chief Postmaster.