MAIL NOTICE .

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 121, 18 November 1939, Page 16

MAIL NOTICE .

Wails (except parcel mails) will be closed at Chief Post Office, Wellington, Cl, as under:— Mails close at Post Office, Te Aro, C 2, and i Wellington East, C 3, one half-hour prior to the closing of mails at tlier 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 parcel mails, books, etc., see footnote. Overseas mails will be dispatched as opportunity offers. OVERSEAS AIR MAILS: RATES OF POSTAGE. Umpire Air Services. —Great Britain, Ireland, Empire countries,- Egypt, and Irak, Is 6d each Vzoz; foreign countries, special rates apply (minimum). Is 6d each x,&oz. For further particulars, inauira at any Post Office. Australia and New Guinea.—lnternal services, 5d each Vzoz. United States of America.—lnternal services, lOd each Other Air Services. —For particulars, lnauire at any Post Office. Letters«for Empire countries prepaid at the rate of 2d Orst Yzoz are forwarded by best available surface dispatch. CHRISTMAS MAILS. For America, Australia, etc.—lt is not possible this year to furnish closing dates of Christmas mails for overseas, but the following information is supplied:—Suggested time of posting not later than: America, November (last week) ; East, November (last week); Australia, raid-December. Early posting is recommended in view of the uncertainty of traasit time. INLAND MAILS. (Unless otherwise indicated, mails are closed daily.) BY AIR 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.—B.3o a.m., 3 p.m. ■ Nelson and Reefton. —Monday to Saturday, 6.35 a.m. , Nelson, Greymouth, Hokitika, Westport, and Reefton. —Monday to Saturday, 10.45 a.m. Parcels for dispatch by air will be accepted up to the time of closing letter mails; BY STEAMER. Picton, Havelock, and Blenheim, via Picton, per Tamahine (Monday, Wednesday, Friday), 1.30 p.m.; C.P.O. late fee. 1.45 p.m.; steamec. 2.30 p.m. Nelson, Westport, and Havelock. —Letter malls for Blenheim and Reefton; letter mails for Picton (Monday, Wednesday, Friday); also all mails for French Pass, Monday and Wednesday, and all mails for Offices in Pelorus Sound (Wednesday and Saturday); Monday, Wednesday, Friday, per Kaltoa, 4.45 p.m.; C.P.O. late fee, 5.15 p.m.; 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 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. 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.0., 2 p.m., (5. pm.; late fee railway, 2.50 p.m., -1 p.m. .; ■-.-. Gisborne and District.—Mails tire closed i C.P O. 8.30 a.m., 5.15 p.m.; late fee C.P.0., 8.45 a.m., 6 p.m.; late fee railway, 9.50 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.P.0., 5.45 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.0., 9.15 a.m., 2 p.m., 6 p.m.; late fee railway, 10.15 a.m.. 250 p.m., 7 p.m. Monday, Wednesday, Friday I (letters only), 3.45 p.m.; C.P.O. late fee, 4 Wanganui and District. —9 a.m., 1.30 p.m., 5 15 p.m., 6 p.m.; late fee C.P.0., 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 CP-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. 1O.» a.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.0., 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.—Mails are closed (U*.©. 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 a' Wairarapa District.—Mails are closed C.P.O. 6 a.m., 2.30 p.m.. 4 p.m., 6 p.m.; late fee C.P.0., 2.45 p.m., 4.15 p.m.; late fee railway. ' Inland parcel mails are closed daily at C P.O. at 1 p.m., 2.30 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.) Bxpress transit parcels received up to time of closing letter mails.—Note.— Express transit parcels cannot be forwarded to Auckland by "Limited ExThe 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. All books, sample-packets, and newspapers must be posted at this office HALF AN HOUR before the time of closing ordinary letter mails. Books, sample-packets, and newspaper mails are closed at Te Aro and Wellington East Post Offices at 11 a.m.. 1 p.m., 2.30 p.m.. 4 p.m., Unless^otherwise specified, registered letters must be handed in and money-orders obtained ONE HOUR before the time of closing ordinary malls- F. G. NIND, Chief Postmaster. Saturday, November IS, 1939.