MAIL NOTICE

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 30, 3 August 1940, Page 14

MAIL NOTICE

Mails (except parcel mails) will' be closed at Ciller Post Office. , Wellington. Cl. as under:—

Mails close al Post Office, Te Aro, C 2. and Wellington East. ("3. and half-hourly prior to the closing of mails at the Chief I'osi Office, between the hours or 9.H0 a.m. and 4.30 p.m. (Malls for Auckland pur ■Limited" express close at these offices at 4.30 p.m.) For closing times of parcel mails, books, etc., see footnote. OVERSEAS (OUTWARD,*. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7.. ' Australian States and' countries via Australia (including air-mail correspondence for air services in and beyond Australia), 11 a.m. Other overseas mails will be dispatched us opportunity offers. TRANS-TASMAN Aill SEIIVICK. Mails will close at Wellington at noon on the following dates: —Tuesday, . August 6; Tuesday, August 13th; Thursday, August 15; Tuesday, August 20. ■ Postage Kates,—Australia (including uTr services in Australia) : Letters, 5d each half-ounce; postcards, 3d. Egypt, Africa, and Iniermediate Empire countries: Is 6d each halfounce: postcards. 9d. Foreign countries Intermediate between Australia and Egypt: Special rates apply; inquire at Post Office. N O te.—Postage rates include air services In New Zealand when necessary. TRANS-PACIFIC AIR MAIL. The closing times for mails from Wellington will be at noon on alternate Thursdays. Nest mail noon, Thursday, August 15. Postage rates:—Letters; Hawaii, as (id eacu lialf-ounce; United States and Canada (including air in America), 4s each half-ounce; Great Britain, 6s 3d each half-ounce. For further particulars apply at Post Office. AIR-MAIL SERVICES TO GREAT BRITAIN. Route—Via Australia and Cape Town (air and surface means) (by trans-Tasman air mail or Australian dispatches), normal transit time, 32 days; postage rates (each half oz). Is 6d. ... Route. —x via Honolulu (air and surface means), (as opportunity offers), normal transii time, approx. 3 weeks; postage rates (each half oz). is 9d. Route. —x via Honolulu and Lisbon (air and surface means) (as opportunity offers), normal transit time, under 3 weeks; postage rates (each half oz), 4s. Route.—Via America (air and surface means) (by trans-Pacific air mail), normal transit time, approx. 2 weeks; postage rate 3 (each half oz). 4s. Route.—Via America (by air) (by transpacific and trans-Atlantic air mail), normal i transit time, 12 days) ; postage rates (each half : oz) ,■ 6s 3d. i xConnection:* uncertain, letters accepted i sender'? risk. INLAND MAILS. < Unless otherwise indicated, mails are closed | daily.) BY AIK MAIL. Auckland, Hamilton, and Thames Districts.— Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 11 a.m. Palmerston North and District.—Tuesday, i Thursday, Saturday, 11 a.m. New Plymouth.—Tuesday. Thursday. Satur-: day, 11 a.m. Southern Offices (except Marlborough and Nelson districts).— Monday. Wednesday, Friday. 10.20 a.m. Blenheim.— Monday to Saturday, 8.30 a.m.. 1.30 p.m. Nelson, Greymouth. Hokitika, Westport, and Beef ton.—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 of letter-mails. Inland parcel mails are closed daily at CPO 11 a.m. and 4 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 letter-malls. Note.—Express transit parcels cannot be forward to Auckland by "Limited" express.