MAIL NOTICES

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23444, 26 September 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, midnight; also Nelson (letters only), express goods train daily (except Saturday and Sunday). 4.45 p.m.; late fee, guard’s van, 0 p.m.; Saturday, 5 p.m.; late fee guard’s 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, Tlmaru, Waimate, Oamaru, and Dunedin, express goods, Monday to Friday, 5 p.m.; late fee letters, 6 p.m. Rakaia, Ashburton, Tlmaru. 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 mails 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 Mali Service Mails close this office, as opportunity offers. Rates: Australia, 5d each Joz; British countries served by Empire air-mail services, Is Gd each Joz. United Kingdom air mail to Cape Town and surface to London, Is Gd each Joz. Foreign countries, special rates, apply at Post Office. Trans-Paciflc Air Mail Service Closes noon Friday, September 20. Rates: New Caledonia, Is each Joz; Canton Island, Is 9d each Joz; Hawaii, 2s Gd 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.