MAIL NOTICES
Mails close C.P.0., Christchurch. as follows: Southern Offices: Monday to Saturday 7 a.m. (late fee, 8 a.m,); Monday to Thursday. 5 p.m. (late fee. 6 p.m.l; Friday, 8 p.m. (late fee 9 p.m.l; Sunday, 8 p.m. (late fee. 9 p.m.). Nelson.—Monday to Friday, 11.45 p.m.; Monday to Saturday, 8 a.m.; Monday to Friday, 5 p.m. North island. Monday to Friday, 5 p.m. (late fee, 6 p.m.); Saturday, noon (late fee, 6 p.m.l. Inland Air Mails.—Auckland, Sunday, 11 a.m.; Monday to Saturday. 5 a.m., 11.30 a.m.; Monday to Friday. 3 p.m.; Blenheim, Monday to Saturday. 9 a.m.; Dunedin. Monday to Saturday. 7.30 a.m., 11 a.m.; Monday to Friday. 1.30 p.m.; Gisborne, Monday to Saturday, 9.30 a.m.; Hamilton, Monday to Saturday. 7.30 a.m.; Monday to Friday, 11 am.; Invercargill. Monday to Saturday, 7.30 a.m.: 11 a.m.; Monday to Friday, 4 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m.; Napier, Monday to Saturday. 9.30 a.m.; Nelson, Monday to Saturday, 5 a.m.; Monday to Friday, 1.30 p.m.; New Plymouth, Monday to Saturday, 9.30 a.m.; Palmerston North, Monday to Saturday, 9.30 a.m.; Wanganui, Monday to Saturday, 7.30 a.m.; Wellington, Sunday. 11 a.m.: Monday. to Saturday, 5 a.m., 1.30 p.m. (Saturday, noon); Monday to Friday. 5 p.m. Overseas Air Mails. Australia, Monday to Friday, 2 p.m.; Saturday, noon; Sunday, 11 a.m.; Indonesia, British Solomon Islands, Pakistan, Asia, 8.A.P.0. 5, Egypt, Sunday, 11 am.; Monday to Friday, 2 p.m.; Malaya, New Zealand Forces, Malaya, Tuesday, Friday, 2 p.m.; Sunday. 11 a.m.; India, Tuesday, Friday, 2 p.m.; Sunday. 11 a.m.; New Caledonia, New Hebrides, Sunday. 11 a.m.; Hong Kong, China, H.M.N.Z.S. Pukaki. Monday. Tuesday, Friday, 2 p.m.; Japan. Monday. Tuesday. Friday, 2 p.m.; South Africa. Kenya, Thursday, 2 p.m.; Sunday. 11 a.m.; Ceylon, Monday, Wednesday, 2 p.m.; ’ United Kingdom. Eire, Tuesday. Wednesday, Friday, 2 p.m.; Saturday, noon; Sunday, 11 a.m.; France, Wednesday, Friday, 2 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m.; Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, Sunday, 11 a.m.; Wednesday. Friday, 2 p.m.; Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Jugoslavia. Tuesday, Friday, 2 p.m.; Italy, Tuesday, Friday, 2 p.m.; Sunday. 11 am.; Greece. Tuesday. Friday. 2 p.m.; United States. Mexico, West Indies, Central and South America. Hawaii, Monday, Tuesday. Thursday. Friday. 8 p.m.: Wednesday (letters only). 8 p.m.; Saturday (letters only), 8 a m.; Canton Island, Friday, 8 p.m.; Canada, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday. Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday. 8 a.m.; Fiji. Monday. Tuesday. Thursday. Friday, 8 p.m.; Saturday. 8 a.m.; French Polynesia, Monday. 8 p.m.; Saturday, 8 a.m.; Tonga (air to Fiji), Thursday. 8 p.m.; Tonga. December 19. 8 p.m.; Norfolk Island, Friday. 8 p.m.: December 20. 2 p.m.; Samoa, Saturday, 8 a.m.; Niue (air to Fiji). December 14, 8 p.m.; Cook Islands (air mail to Papeete). December 23. 8 a.m. Surface Mails.—-Unless otherwise indicated. second-class mails close 10 a.m. the previous day. Australia, East, and Italy. December 18. 10 a.m.; Malaya, New Zealand Forces, Malaya. December 18. 10 a.m.; Japan. <not parcels), December 20. 10 a.m.; United Kingdom, December 19, 10 a.m.; Europe, Greece, Eire, Central America, British and French Guiana, Bolivia. Chile, December 18. 10 am.: Netherlands, December 18, ’ 10 a.m.; Canada, United States. West Indies, Mexico, Hawaii, December 18. 10 a.m.; Argentina. Brazil. Paraguay, Uruguay, December 15. 10 a.m. (parcels via London); Curacao. Venezuela. December 18, 10 a.m.: Jamaica. Trinidad, December 18. 10 a.m.; Tahiti (French Polynesia). January 3. 2 p.m.; Pitcairn Island, December 18. 10 a.m.; Ocean Island. Tarawa, Nauru, first opportunity; Fiji, Samoa, Tonga. Saaonsi xarVfciu oe; rg, 10 a.m.: Chatham Islands (air), January 9. 5 p m.: Raoul Island, first opportunity; Scott Base, as opportunity offers; Campbell Island, first opportunity. Inward mails due Christchurch:— Air.—Australia, dailv: United Kingdom, daily; Canada, U.S.A., Fiji, daily. Surface.—Australia. December 21 (Wanganella); United Kingdom, December 18 (Oranje); U.S.A.. Canada, December 28 (Cap Corrientea); Fiji. January 3 (Tofua). A flash flood in the Manawatu river on Saturday caused the death of a number of fish in the river. The Wellington Acclimatisation Society's ranger in Palmerston North. Mr L. L. McMillan said that he had found a number of fish which had apparently died of asphyxiation. The sudden downpour of rain swept a considerable amount of dust into the river, he said, and this, entering the gills of the fish, blocked their breathing and caused death.—(P.A)
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29695, 13 December 1961, Page 25
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