MAIL NOTICES
Mails close G.P.0.. Christchurch, as follows: North Island offices, Monday to Friday, 4.30 p.m.; late fee, 6 pun.; Saturdays, noon; late fee, 6 p.m. West Coast, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, 7 a.m.; express goods train daily, 2 p.m. West Coast offices and Nelson (letters only), rail-cars, Monday to Friday, 11 p.m. (Sunday, 11 p.m.); Blenheim, Kaikoura, and Picton route, Monday to Saturday. 7 a.m., and Monday to Friday, 4.30 p.m. Overseas mails will close at the Chief Post Office. Christchurch, as follows: Air mails close 9.30 a.m. (late fee, 10 a.m.), for Australia and New Caledonia, daily, 9.30 a.m.; United Kingdom, Eire, and Continent of Europe, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. 9.30 a.m.: for Africa, I Middle East, India, Iran, Iraq, Syria, China, Hong Kong, Malaya, and Netherlands East Indies, Tuesday, Thursday, ana Saturday, 9.30 a.m.; for U.S.A., Central America, West Indies. Canada, Newfoundland, per P.A.A., Mondays and Wednesdays, 9.30 a.m.; per 8.C.P.A., Mondays and Thursdays. 930 a.m.; for Fiji, Mondays and Fridays. 9.30 a.m.; for Cook Islands and Tonga, Friday, March 4. 9.30 a.m.; for Norfolk Island, every Friday. 9.30 a.m. Surface mails for Australia. India. Ceylon. Egypt, Italy, and Balkan States countries Friday, February 25. 2 p.m.; for United Kingdom. Eire, Continent of Europe i except Italy, Balkan States). Thursday, February 24, 2 p.m.; parcels Thursday, February 24, 10 a.m. Central American States, Thursday, February 24. 2 p.m.; for Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil, Falkland Islands. Saturday February 26, 8 a.m.; for United States. Canada, and Mexico. West Indies. Hawaii. Saturday, February 26. 8 a.m.: for Chatham Islands. Thursday. February 24. Inward mails are due at Christchurch Monday to Saturday inclusive; United Kingdom and countries on Empire air route, three times a week. From Australia by surface, February 25 (Monowai )- United Kingdom by surface, March 4 (Port Dunedin); March 9 (Tamaroa) U -S-A. an J? C ana <3a. March 2 (Tridale)’ mid-March (Ventura). Surface mail dateapproximate. D. R. THOMSON, Chief Postmaster.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25737, 24 February 1949, Page 4
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323MAIL NOTICES Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25737, 24 February 1949, Page 4
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