MAIL NOTICES
Mails close CP-0., Christchurch, as follows :
Southern offices, Monday to Saturday, 7 ajn.; late fee, 8 a.m.; Sunday, 7 p.m.; late fee, 9 p.m. West Coast, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, 7 a.m.; express goods train, daily, 2 pjn.; West Coast offices and Nelson (letters only), rail-cars, Monday to Friday, 11 pjn. (Sunday. 11 p.m.); Blenheim, Kaikoura. and Picton route, Monday to Saturday, 7 a.m., and Monday to Friday, 4.30 p.m. Holiday Arrangements.—Monday, December 26, and Monday, January 2, 1950. No air mails will be dispatched or received. Tuesday, December 27, and Tuesday. January 3, 1950: All air mails will close at 8 a.jn. Overseas air mails close 1.30 p.m. (late fee. 2 p.m.), for Australia and New Caledonia, Monday to Friday, 1.30 p.m.; Saturday, 8 a.m. and noon; United Kingdom and Eire. Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, 1.30 p.m., and Saturday, 11 a.m.; Indonesia, Malaya, Hong Kong. India, Pakistan, and South Africa, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, 1.30 p.m.; Europe and places in Africa and Asia, not mentioned above, Tuesday and Friday. 1.30 p.m.; for U.S.A., Central America. West Indies. Canada, Newfoundland, per 8.C.P.A., Mondays, 1.30 p.m.; Thursdays, 11 a.m. (late fee, noon); per P.A.A., Tuesdays. 11 a.m. (late fee, noon); for Fiji, Mondays, 1.30 p.m.: for Norfolk Island, every Friday: for Cook Islands, Samoa, and Tonga, Saturday. December 24, 11 a.m. (late fee, noon). Surface mails for Australia. India. Ceylon, Egypt, Italy, and Balkan States countries, Wednesday. December 28. 2 p.m.; for United Kingdom. Eire, Continent of Europe (except Italy, Balkan States). Wednesday, December 28. 2 p.m.; Central American States, Wednesday, December 28, 2 p.m.; for Argentina Paraguay. Uruguay. Brazil. Falkland Islands. Wednesday, December 28, 2 p.m.; for United States, Canada, and Mexico, West Indies. Hawaii. Wednesday, December 28. 2 p.m. 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. December 29 (Monowai); United. Kingdom by surface, December 24 (Akaroa); U S.A., January 7 (Waihemo). Surface mail dates approximate. D. R. THOMSON, Chief Postmaster.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25995, 24 December 1949, Page 6
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341MAIL NOTICES Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25995, 24 December 1949, Page 6
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