MAIL NOTICES
Mails close C.P.0., Christchurch, as follows:
Easter holiday arrangements.—Good Friday, April 7: No air mails will be dispatched or received. Easter Monday. April 10: All air mails close at 8 a.m. North Island offices. Mondays to Fridays, 4.30 p.m.; late fee, 6 p.m.; Saturdays. noon; late fee, 6 p.m. Southern offices, Monday to Saturday, 7 a.m.; 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 trains, daily, 2 p.m.. West Coast offices and Nelson (letters only), rail-cars, Mondly 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 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, noon: United Kingdom and Eire, Tuesday, Thursday. Friday, 1.30 p.m.. and Saturday. 11 a.m.; Indonesia, Malaya, Heng Kong, India, Pakistan, Tuesday, Thursday. and Friday. 1.30 p.m.; Europe, Africa, and places in 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, Mondavs 1.39 p.m.; for Norfolk Island, every Friday: for Cook Islands, Samoa, and Tonga, Monday, April 3, 11 am. (late fee, noon).
Surface mails for Australia, India, Ceylon, Egypt. Italy, and Balkan States countries. Wednesday, April 5. 2 p.m.; for United Kingdom, Eire, Continent of Europe (except Italy. Balkan States). Wednesday, April 5,2 p.m. (parcels, Thursday, April 20, 10 am.): Central American States, Wednesday, April 5,2 p.m.; for Argentina. Paraguay. Uruguay, Brazil, Falkland Island . Thursday, April 13, 2 p.m.; for United States, Canada, and Mexico. West Indies. Hawaii, Thursday. April 13, 2 p m.; Chatham Islands, Wednesday, April 5, 7 a.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, April 5 (Monowai), United Kingdom, by April 15 .(PL Quebec): US A. April 6 (Ventura). Surface mail dates approximate. D. R. THOMSON, Chief Postmaster.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26078, 3 April 1950, Page 6
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358MAIL NOTICES Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26078, 3 April 1950, Page 6
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