MAIL NOTICE

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 159, 2 April 1937, Page 14

MAIL NOTICE

Britain via America To-day

CHINA, JAPAN TO-MORROW •Mails will be closed at Chief Post Office, Wellington (C’.l) (except Parcel Mails), and between 9.30 a.m. and 5 p.m. ut Te Aro (C.2), and Wellington East (C. 3 Post Offices as under, except late fee, packet and newspaper mails, which are closed half an hour before the time of closing ordinary letter mails:— Best dispatch for Great Britain per .Mariposa (from Auckland), April 2, 4.30 p.m.; late fee, 6 p.m. Due London April FBI DAY, A Pit IL 2. Parcel mails for FIJI, Pago Pago, Hawaiian Islands and America, per Mariposa (from Auckland), 11 a.tn. Great Britain, Ireland, and Europe, United States of America, Canada Mexico, West Indies, via San Pedro; also Fiji, Japan, Apia, Pago Pago, and Hawaiian Islands, per Mariposa (from Auckland) (letters only), 4.30 p.m.; C.P.O. late fee, 6 p.m.; at Thorndon Station, 7 p.m. Second-class matter, 1 p.m. Money orders must be obtained by noon. Mail closes at Auckland 4 p.m. Saturday. Due London, April 20. Note: Newspaper rates of postage to United States is Id. for each two ounces. Correspondence will be accepted for dispatch by air-mail services in North, South, and Central America, also West Indies.

Great Britain, Ireland, and Europe, for correspondence specially addressed per Surrey, also Central America, Jamaica, British, French, and Dutch Guiana, Venezuela, Republic of Colombia, Peru. Ecuador, via Cristobal, per Surrey, 1 p.m.; C.P.O. late fee, 2 p.m. Parcel mail, 11 a.m. Mails reaeli London approximately May 15. Correspondence will be accepted for dispatch by air-maij services in North, South, and Central America, also West Indies.

Great Britain, Ireland, and Europe, for correspondence specially addressed, per Port Darwin, also all States of South America, via Montevideo, per Port Darwin (from Auckland), 4.30 p.m.; C.P.O. late fee, C p.m.; at Thorndon Station, 7 p.m. Parcel mail, noon. Second-class matter, 1 p.m. Mails reach London approximately May 12. SATURDAY, APRIL 3. China and Japan (from Auckland), 8 p.m.: C.P.O. late fee, 6 p.m., Sunday. Parcel mall, for China, noon. Chatham Islands, per Tees (from Lyttelton), 6 p.m.; C.P.O. late fee, 6.45 p.m. AIR MAIL SERVICE. Great Britain, Ireland, Europe, Egypt, South Africa, and intermediate countries served by Hie Australia-Singapore-England air-mail: Next dispatch per Awatea, Tuesday, April 6, 3 p.m. Duo London April 21. For information regarding postage and other particulars, inquire at any post office. Air mail which loft Wellington March 4 and 9, via Australia-Singapore-England, arrived at Loudon on March 25. INCOMING OVERSEAS MAILS. (Arrival dates approximate only.) April 4.—S.S. Mariposa, from Sydney, via Auckland: Australian and beyond Australia mall (including English air-mail dispatched from London March 17), for Wellington: 116 bags, 11 parcel receptacles. April 4—S.S. Golden Bear, from San Pedro, via Auckland; American mall for New Zealand: 20 bags, 76 parcel receptacles. April S.—S.S. Awatea, from Sydney, Australian mail. April 5.—8-.M.S. Aorangi, from Vancouver, via Auckland; English and American mail. April 7.—S.S. Rangitiinc, from London, English mail. J. MADDEN. Chief Postmaster. Friday, April 2.