MAIL NOTICE

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 64, 12 September 1940, Page 5

MAIL NOTICE

Mails (except parcel mails) will be closed at Chief Post Office. Wellington. Cl, as under; — Mails close at 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 malls, books, etc., see footnote. OVERSEAS (OUTWARD). THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19. Australian States and countries via Australia (including air-mail correspondence for. air serI vices in and beyond Australia), 11 a.m. I Other overseas muils will t)« dispatctied as opportunity offers. TRANS-TASMAN SERVICE. Mails will close at Wellington at noon on the following dates .-—Saturday, September 14; Tuesday, September 24. Postage Kates.—Australia (Including air services in Australia) : Letters, 5d each halfounce ; postcards, 3d. Egypt, Africa, and intermediate Empire countries, Is 6d each half-ounce; postcards, <Jd. 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 AIK MAIL,. The dosing limes for mails from Wellington :—Next mail, noon, Saturday, September 14. Pi' Stag* rates: Letters, Hawaii, t!s lid each half-ounce; United KtaU'S and Canada (including air in America), 4s each halfounce: Groat Britain, ns M each half-ounce. For further particulars, apply at Post Office. AIR-MAIL SERVICES TO GREAT BRITAPI. Route.—Air New Zealand, Australia, Cape Town only (by trans-Tasman air mall or Australian dispatches), normal transit time, 32 days; postage rates (each half-ounce), Is Gd. Route.—x Air Honolulu-New York only (as opportunity offers), normal transit time, approx. 3 weeks; postage rates (each halfounce), 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), 5s 9d. s Connections uncertain, letters accepted at 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 Districts.—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. Blenheim. —Monday to Saturday, 8.30 a.m., 1.30 p.m. Nelson, Greymouth, Hokltika, Westport, and Reeftou. —Monday to Saturday, G. 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 lettermails. BY STEAMER. Pleton, Havelock, and Blenheim, via Picton, per Tamahine (Monday, Wednesday, Friday), 1.30 p.m.; C.P.O. late fee, 1.45 p.m.: steanter, 2.30 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 malls for offices In Pelorus Sound (Wednesday and Saturday), Monday, Wednesday, Friday, per Kaitoa, 4.30 p.m.; C.P.O. late fee, 5.15 p.m.; at steamer, 6 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, per Matangi, 5 p.m.; C.P.O. late fee, G p.m.: at steamer, 7.15 p.m. Southern Offices (except Marlborough and Nelson districts). —Monday, Wednesday, Friday, per Rangatira, 5 p.m.; C.P.O. late fee, 6 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, per Maori, 5 p.m.; C.P.O. late fee, 6 p.m.;- latefee bos 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 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 p.m.; late fee C.P.0., 2 p.m. and G 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 p.m.; late fee C.P.0., 18.45 a.m., 6 p.m.; late fee railway, 9.30 a.m. Napier and Hawke's Bay Districts —Mails are closed C.P.O. at 8.30 a.m. and "5 p.m.: late fee C.P.O. 5.45 a.m., G'p/m.; late fee railway, 9.30 a.m. ' New Plymouth and Taranakl" Districts — I Mails are closed C.P.O. at 9 a.m., 1.30 p.m., 5 p.m. (letters only) ; late fee CJS.O. 9.15 a.m., 2 p.m., 6 p.m.; late fele railway, J 10.15 a.m., 2.50 p.m., 7 p.m. Monday, Wednesday, Friday (letters only), 3.45 p.m.; C.P.O. I late fee, 4 p.m. Wanganul and District.—9 a.m., 1.30 p.m., r> 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 C.P.O. 9 a.m., 1.30 p.m., 5 p.m.; late fee C.P.0., f1.15 a.m., 2 p.m.; late fee railway, 10.5 a.m., 2.50 p.m. Palmerston North. —Mails are closed C.P.O. 7.30 a.m., 9 a.m., 1.30 p.m., 5 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. —Malls are closed C.P.O. 7.30 a.m., 5 p.m.; late fee C.P.0., 7.45 a.m.. r> p.m.; late fee railway, 8.20 a.m. Wairarapa District.—Mails are closed C.P.O. 2.30 p.m., 5 p.m., 8 p.m.; late fee C.P.O. 2.45 p.m.; late fee railway, 7.40 a.m. Inland parcel mails are closed daily at C.P.O. 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 lettermails. Note. —Express transit parcels cannot he forwarded to Auckland by "Limited" express. F. G. NIND, Chief Postmaster. Thursday, September 12, 1940.