MAIL NOTICES

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23514, 17 December 1941, Page 5

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.in.; 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, guaid’s van, 6 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, Timaru, Waimate, Oamaru, and Dunedin, express goods. Monday to Friday, 5 p.m.; late fee letters, 6 p.m. Rakafa. Ashburton, Timaru, Oamaru, Dunedin, Invercargill, and intermediate offices, expresses daily, 7.30 a.m,; late fee, 8 a.m.; guard’s 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. 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. 8 a.m.: south-bound; Monday to Friday. Inclusive, noon. Trans-Tasman Air Mail Service Mails close this office as opportunity offers. Rates: Australia, sd, each Joz; British countries served by Empire air-mail services, Is 6d 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 Mail Service Mails close as opportunity offers. Rates: New Caledonia, Is each Joz; Fiji. Is 3d each Joz; Hdwail, 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.