MAIL NOTICE

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 113, 14 May 1940, Page 10

MAIL NOTICE

Mails (except parcel mails) will be closed at Chief Post Office, Wellington, Cl, as Mails close at Post Office Te Axo, C 2, and Wellington East, C 3, and half-hourly prior to the closing of mails, 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.) I For closing times of parcel mails, • books, [etc., see footnote. ./ OVERSE. S (OUTWARD). THURSDAY, MAY 16. Australian States and countries via Australia (Including air-mail correspondence for Australia) , 10 a.m. Other overseas mails will be dispatched as opportunity offers. TRANS-TASMAN AIR SERVICE. The closing time for mails from Wellington will be Saturday, noon, each week. Postage Rates. —Australia (including air services in Australia) : Letters, 5d each halfoz; postcards 3d. Great Britain and Empire countries, also Egypt and Irak: Letters. Is 6d each half-oz; postcards, 9d. Foreign countries served by Empire Air Services: Special rates apply. Inquire at Post Office. Note.—Postage rates include air services in New Zealand when necessary. INLAND MAILS. (Unless otherwise indicated, mails are closed daily.) By Air Mail. Auckland, Hamilton, and 'Thames Districts. — Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 11 a.m. Palmerston North and District.—Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 11 a.m. New Plymouth. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 11 a.m. Southern Offices (except Marlborough and Nelson District). —Monday, Wednesday, Friday,1 10.20 a.m. I Blenheim. —Monday to Saturday, 8.30 a.m., 1.30 p.m. Nelson, Greymouth, Hokitika, Westport, and Reefton. —-Monday to Saturday, 6.35' a.m. Nelson. —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.; steamer, 2.3fr p.m. Nelson, Westport, and Havelock, letter-mails for Blenheim and Reefton, letter-mails for Greymouth, Tuesday and Thursday; lettermails for Picton (Monday, Wednesday, Friday), 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 M'atangt, 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, 6 p.m.; C.P.O. late fee, 6.45 p.m.; late-fee box at gates to Ferry Wharf, 7.30 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.ri 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. Sunda, 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. 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.0., 8.45 a.m.. 6 p.m.; late fee railway, 9.30 a.m. Napier and Hawke's Bay Districts.—Malls are closed C.P.O. at 8.30 a.m. and 5.15 p.m., 8 p.m.; late fee C.P.0., 8.45 a.m., 6 p.m.; late fee railway, 9.30 a.m. F. G. NIND, Chief Postmaster. Tuesday, May 14, 1840.