MAIL NOTICE

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 75, 30 March 1939, Page 12

MAIL NOTICE

For closing date of parcel mail, books, etc., see footnote. Mails (except parcel malls) will be closed at C.P.0., Wellington, Cl, and (between 9.30 a.m. and 5 p.m.) at Post Offices Te Aro, C 2, and Wellington East, C 3, asunder, except late fee. Next dispatch for Great Britain, Awatea, April 3, 5 p.m. C.P.O. late fee 7 p.m. Due London April 17. I SATURDAY, APRIL 1. Parcel mails for Fiji, Pago Pago, Tahiti, , Hawaiian Islands, and America, per Jlariposa (from Auckland), noon. ; Chatham Islands, per Tees (from Lyttelton) (Wahine), 6 p.m. C.P.O. late fee 6.45 p.m. , Also per Inland air mail (Id per oz extra), . Sunday, April 2, 10.20 a.m. United States of America, Canada, Mexico, and West Indies; also letters for Continent of Europe, via San Pedro, Fiji, Apia, Pago Pago, Tahiti, Japan, and Hawiian Islands, per Mariposa (from Auckland), 8 p.m. C.P.O. late fee, 6 p.m. Sunday. Second-class matter 1 p.m. (Saturday). Late-fee box Railway Station, 1 p.m. (Sunday) Money-orders must be obtained by noon. Mail closes at Auckland 3 p.m. Monday; due San Pedro April 17. Note.—Newspaper rate of postage to United States of America is %d for each two ounces. Correspondence will be accepted for dispatch by air-mail services in North, South, and Central America, also West Indies. Also.pex inland air mail (Id per oz extra). 1 Monday. April 3. 11 a.m. I MONDAY, APRIL 3. Great Britain, Ireland, Canada, and Newfoundland (letters only), due London April 17, also air-mail correspondence for foreign countries (special rates apply) served by the Empire air services, per Awatea, 5 p.m. C.P.O. late fee 7 p.m. "Australian States, Ceylon, India, China, Japan, Malaya, Egypt, East t and South Africa, Italy, and Balkans, per Awatea, 5 p.m. C.P.O. late fee 7 p.m. Parcel mail 4 p.m. Secondclass matter 4.30 p.m. THURSDAY, APRIL 6. Great Britain and Ireland (second-class matter and parcels only); also letters, etc., for Pitcairn Island, Continent of Europe, Central America, Jamaica, and South American Western States, via Cristobal, per Arawa, 3 p.m. C.P.O. late fee, 4 p.m. Parcel mail 1 p.m. Second-class matter 2.30 p.m. Mails reach London approximately May 9. Correspondence will be accepted for dispatch by air-mail services in North, South, and Central America, also West Indies. INWARD. (Arrival dates approximate only.) April 3. —S.S. Awatea, from Sydney; English letter-mail and Australian mail. April 3. —R.M.S. Aorangi, from Vancouver, via Auckland; English second-class matter, American and Canadian mail for New Zealand, 2220 bags, 410 parcel receptacles. I April G. —S.S. Rangitane, from London; English second-class matter and parcel mail. April o.—Trojan Star, from Liverpool, via Auckland: English parcel mail for Wellington. 1 bag, 49 parcel receptacles. English letter mall, which left Wellington on February 28 arrived London March 13. BY AIR MAIL. Auckland, Hamilton, and Thames districts, daily, including Sunday, 11 a.m.; Monday to Saturday, 2 p.m. Tauranga and Opotiki, Monday to Saturday, 2 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m. Palmerston North and district* daily, including Sunday, 11 a.m.; Monday to Saturday, 2 p.m. Hawke's Bay. daily. 2 p.m. r Sunday, 11 a.m. Gisborne, daily, 2 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m., 5.15 p.m.; Monday to Frida-y, 5.15 p.m. New Plymouth, daily, 2 p.m.; Sunday, 11 a.m. ' Southern offices of New Zealand (except Nelson district), daily, including Sunday, 10.20 a.m. Blenheim, Monday and Saturday, 7.30 a.m., 9.30 a.m., 1.45 p.m., 2.45 p.m.; Sunday, 11.15 a.m. Nelson, Monday to Saturday, 6.35 a.m., 10.45 a:m., 1.45 p.m., 4.15 p.m.; Sunday, 11.15 a.m. Greymouth, Hokitika, Westport, and Reef ton, Monday to Saturday, 6.35 a.m. Parcels for dispatch by air will be accepted up to the time of closing letter mails. INLAND MAILS. (Unless otherwise indicated, mails are closed daily.) BY STEAMER. Picton, Havelock, and Blenheim, via Picton, Saturday, Tamahine, 11.45 a.m.; C.P.O. late fee, noon; steamer, 1 p.m. Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Tamahine, 1.30 p.m.; C.P.O. late fee, 1.45 p.m.; steamer, 2.30 p.m. Nelson, Westport, and Havelock, letter mails for Blenheim and Reefton; letter mails for Picton (Monday and Wednesday) ; also all mails for offices in Pelorus Sound (Wednesday and Saturday) ; Monday, Wednesday, Friday, per Arahura, 5.15 p.m.; C.P.O. late fee. 6 p.m.; steamer, 7.15 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, per Matangl, 5.15 p.m.; C.P.O. late fee, 6 p.m.; steamer, 7.15 p.m. Southern Offices of New Zealand (except Marlborough and Nelson districts). —Monday Wednesday, Friday, per Rangatira, 6 p.m.; C.P.O. late fee, 6.45 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday. Saturday, per Wahine, 6 p.m.; C.P.O. late fee. 6.45 p.m. late-fee box at gates to Ferry Wharf. 7.30 p.m. The advertised times for closing malls by steamers are liable to alteration. The public are earnestly requested to register all letters containing money or valuables intended to be sent by post. BY TRAIN. Auckland and District.—Monday to Saturday mails are closed C.P.O. 1.30 p.m., late fee 2 p.m., late fee railway 2.50 p.m.; Sunday to Friday (letters only), mails are closed C.P.O. 5.15 p.m., late fee 6 p.m., late fee railway 7 p.m. Thames, Hamilton, and Main Trunk Districts. —Mails are closed C.P.O, 1.30 p.m., 5.15 p.m., late fee C.P.O. 2 p.m.. 6 p.m.; late fee railway, 2.50 p.m., 7 p.m. Gisborne and District. —Mails are closed C.P.O. 8.30 a.m., 5.15 p.m.; late fee C.P.O. 8.45 a.m., 6 p.m.; late fee railway, 9.30 a.m. Napier and Hawke's Bay District. —Mails are closed C.P.O. 8.30 a.m., 5.15 p.m., 6 p.m.; late fee C.P.0., 8.45 a.m., 6 .p.m.; late fee railway, 9.30 a.m. ' New Plymouth and Taranaki Districts.— Mails are closed C.P.O. 9 a.m., 1.30 p.m., 5.15 p.m. (letters only) ; late fee C.P.O. 9.15 a.m., 2 p.m., 6 p.m.; late fee railway, 10.5 a.m., 2.50 p.m., 7 p.m. Wanganui and District.—9 a.m., 1.30 p.m., 5.15 p.m., "6 p.m.; late' fee C.P.O. 9.15 a.m., 2 p.m., 6 p.m.; late fee railway, 10.5 a.m., 2.50 p.m., 7 p.m. Rangitikei District. —Mails are closed C.P.O. 9 a.m., 1.30 p.m., 6 p.m.; late fee C.P.0., 9.15 a.m., 2 p.m.; late fee railway, 10.5 a.m., 2.50 p.m. Palmerston North.—Mails are closed C.P.O. 7.30 a.m., 9 a.m., 1.30 p.m., 5.15 p.m.. 6 p.m.: late fee C.P.O. 7.45 a.m., 9.15 a.m., 2 p.m.. 6 p.m.; late fee railway 8.20 a.m., 10.0 a.m., 2.50 p.m., 7 p.m. Manawatu District. —Mails are closed C.P.O. 7.30 a.m., 4 p.m., 6 p.m.; late fee C.P.0., 7.45 a.m., 4.15 p.m.; late fee railway, 8.20 Walrarapa District. —Mails are closed C.P.O. 6 a.m., 2.30 p.m., 4 p.m., 6 p.m.; late fee C.P.O. 2.45 p.m., 4.15 p.m.; late fee railway, 7.40 a.m. Inland parcel mails are closed daily at C.P.O. at 1 p.m., 2.30 p.m., 3.50 p.m., 5 p.m., 5.30 p.m., 6 p.m., 8 p.m.* (For particulars of districts served, etc., ring 44-702 or 44-165. or call at counter.) Express transit parcels received up to time of closing of letter mails. Note. —Express transit parcels cannot be forwarded to Auckland by "Limited Express.

F. G. NIND, Acting Chief Postmaster. Thursday, March SO, 1939.