MAIL NOTICE

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 49, 26 August 1940, Page 10

MAIL NOTICE

Mails (except parcel mails) will be closed at Chief Post Office, Wellington, Cl, as under:— Mails close *t Post Office, Te Aro. 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 4.30 p.m. (Mails for Auckland per "Limited" express, close at these offices at 4.30 p.m.) For closing times of parcel mails, books, etc., see footnote. OVERSEAS (OUTWARD). THURSDAY, AUGUST 29. Australian States and countries via Australia, 11 a.m. Other overseas malls will be dispatched as opportunity offers. TRANS-TASMAN AIR SERVICE. Mails will close at Wellington at noon on the following date:—Thursday, August 29. Postage Rates.—Australia (including air services in Australia) : Letters, 5d each halfounce ; postcards, 3d. Egypt, Africa, and intermediate Empire countries: Is 6d each halfounce; postcards, 9d. Foreign countries intermediate between Australia and Egypt: Special rates apply; inquire at Post Office. Note.—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. Next mail, noon, Thursday, August 29. Postage rates: Letters: Hawaii, 2s 6d each half-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. —Air New Zealand; Australia, Cape Town only (by trans-Tasman air mail or Australian dispatches), normal transit time, 32 days; postage rates (each half-ounce), Is 6d. Route.—x Air Honolulu-New Yorl? only (as opportunity offers), normal transit time, approx. 3 weeks; postage rates (each half-ounce), Is 9d. Route. —x Air Honolulu, United States of America, Great Britain (as opportunity offers), normal transit time, under 3 weeks; postage rates (each half-ounce), 4s. Route. —Air New Zealand-New York only (by trans-Pacific air mail), normal transit time, approx. two weeks; postage rates (each half-ounce), 4s. Route. —Air New Zealand, United States of America, Great Britain (by trans-Pacific and transatlantic air mail), normal transit time, 12 days; postage rates (each half-ounce), 6s 3d. xConnections uncertain,, letters accepted sender's risk. 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, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 11 a.m. New Plymouth.—Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 11 a.m. Southern Offices (except Marlborough and Nelson districts).—Tuesday and Thursday, 8.15 a.m.; Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 10.20 a.m.