MAIL NOTICE

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 105, 31 October 1939, Page 12

MAIL NOTICE

Mails ■: (except parcel. mails) will be closed at Chief Post Office, Wellington, Cl, as under::— -■' ■'■■' '. •' :' ' ' ■ Malls close at Post Office, Te Aro, C 2, and Wellington East C 3, • one half-hour prior to i the closing of malls at the Chief Post Office, between the hours of. 9.30 a.m.. and 5 p.m. • (Mails for Auckland per. "Limited" express [ close at these offices at 4.45 p.m.) ► For closing date •of parcels mails, books, etc., see footnote. ' L Overseas mails, will be dispatched as oppor- . tuulty offers. OVERSEAS AIU MAILS: RATES OF \ POSTAGE. ' Empire Air Services.—Groat Britain, Ire- • land, Empire countries, Egypt, and Irak, Is (3d . each %.6i; foreign countries, special rates : apply (minimum), Is Cd each For • further particulars,: inquire at any Post i Office. '■„■■' ■ ■■. ■ Australia and -New. Guinea.-rlnternal ser- ■ vices, 5d each : United;-States of America —Inteomal ■ services, lOd each"^oz. , Other Air Services. —For particulars inquire !at any Post, Office. - . • . . ■Letters for Empire, countries prepaid at the rate af 2d first' %oz are' forwarded by- best 1 available surface dispatch. ■ l CHRISTMAS MAILS. Tor Great Britain/Australia, etc. It is not ' possible this year to furnish closing dates l of. Christmas mails for overseas, but the fol- . lowing information is supplied:—Great Britain and Europe, suggested time of posting not later than November (second week) ; America, November (last week); East, November (last week); Australia mid-December. Early posting is recommended in ;view of the uncertainty of transit time. INLAND MAILS. (Unless otherwise Indicated, mails are closed ; v ■ daily.) BY AIB MAIL. Auckland, Hamilton, and Thames districts, daily, including Sundays, 11 a.m. Palmerston North, and district, daily, including Sundays, 11' a.m. , New Plymouth, daily, Including Sundays, 11 a.m. ■ Southern Offices (except Marlborough and Nelson district), daily, including Sundays, 10.20 a.m.. Blenheim, Monday to Saturday, 7.30' a.m., 9.30 a.m.,. 1.45 p.m., 3 p.m., Sunday, 9.45 a.m. Nelson, Monday to Saturday, 6.35 a.m., 10.45 a.m., 4.15 p.m.;' Sundays, 11.15 a.m. Greymouth, Hokitika, Westport, and Reefton, Monday to Saturday, 6i35 a.m. • Parcels for dispatch', by air will be accepted up to the time of closing letter mails. BY STEAMEK. . Picton; flavelock,' and Blenheim; via Picton, per Tamahirie (Monday, Wednesday, Friday), 1.30 p.m. C.P.O. late- fee 1.45 p.m. Steamer. 2.30 p.m. Nelson, Westport,. and Ilavelock: Letter mails for Blenheim, and Reefton; letter mails for Greymouth (Tuesday and Thursday); letter mails for Picton (Monday, Wednesday, Friday) : also.all mails for Pass,: Monday arid Wednesday; and all mails for offices in Pelorus Sound (Wednesday and Saturday); Monday, Wednesday,^ Friday, per Kaitoa, 4.45 p.m. C.P.0." late fee, 5.15 p.nv Steamer 6 p.m.; Tuesday, 'Thursday, Saturday, per Matangi; 5.15; p.m. C.P.O. late fee, 6 p.m. Steamer 7.15 p.m. ' . . Southern offices (except Marlborough and Nelson districts) :'Monday, Wednesday, Friday, per Rangatlra, '8 ..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. • ■ "• ■ .•'•''■ .■•• • -.- '• / . /•, •;■■■• -.- :,. ■■■■,; 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.. and 5.15 p.m., 6 P.m ;; late'fee C.PIO: 8.45 a.m., 6 p.m.; Jalerfee 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.ni., 2 p.m.,. 6 p.m.; late fee railway 10.15 a.m., 2.50 p.m.,- 7 p.m., Monday, Wednesday, Friday (letters only), 3.45 p.m.; C.P.O. late ;fee,' 4. p.m. . ~'..,-- --, Wanganui. and District.—o a.m., , 1.30 p.m., 5.15 p.m., 0 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.O. 9.15 a.nii, 2 p.m.; late fee. railway 10.5 a.in., 2.50 p.m. ■•-: , . ~, . ; Palmerston North.—Mails are closed C.P.O. 7.30 p.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., 10.5 a.m:, 2.50 p.m., 7 p.m. Manawatu District.—Malls are closed" C.P.O. 7.30 a.m.," 4 p:m., 6 p.mi; late fee C.P.O. 7.45 a.m.; 4.15 p.m.; late fee;railway 8.20 a.m. ■ Wairarapa, District.—Mails-are'closed C.P.O. 6 a.m., 2;3»,;p.m;,. 4 p.m., 6 p.m.; late fee CiP.O. 2.45 p.m., 4.15 p.m; late feo railway 7.40 a.m.: ..... Inland parcel ■ mails are closed .daily at !C.P.O. at 1 p.m., 2.50 p.m., 3.30 p.m., 4.30 p.m., 5 p.m., 6 p.m, ,8 p.m. (For particulars of districts served, etc., ring 44-702 .or : 44-165, or call..at. counter.) - Express1 transit parcels received up to time. of : closing letter mails. Note.—Express transit, parcels cannot be forwarded to Auckland by "Limited Express." ', '..' .' ■' - .•■•■.' ■-■ ' ; The advertised times, for closing mails' 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. F. G. NIND, , Chief Postmaster. Tuesday, October 31, 1939.