MAIL NOTICES

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23413, 21 August 1941, Page 3

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.; dally, 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. • ■ Plcton, 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 dally, 7.30 a.m.; late -fee 8 aim.; 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. . , x . 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 NdV Zealand Air mails within New Zealand close at Chief Post Office, Christchurch; Northbound. Tuesday to Saturday, inclusive, 9 am.; south-bound, Monday to Friday. Inclusive, noon.

Trans-Tasman Air Mall Service Mails close this office as opportunity offers. Rates: Australia', 5d each ioz; British countries ’served by Empire air-mail services. Is 6d each |oz. United Kingdom air mail to Cape Town and surface to London, Is 6d each Joz. Foreign countries, special rates, apply at Post Office.

Trans-Paciflc Air Mall Service ■ Closes noon Thursday, August 28. 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.