MAIL NOTICE

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 78, 28 September 1940, Page 14

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 I Wellington East, C 3. and half-hourly prior to the closing of mails at the Chief Post Office, I i 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.) OVERSEAS (OUTWARD). FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4. Australian States and countries via Australia (including air-mail correspondence for air service in Australia), 11 a.m. Other overseas mails will be dispatched as opportunity offers. TRANS-TASMAN SERVICE. Blails will close at Wellington at noon on the following dates: —Tuesday, October 1; 'Tuesday, October 8. Postage Rates. —Australia (including air services in Australia): Letters, 5d each halfounce ; postcards, 3d. Egypt, Africa, and intermediate Empire countries, Is (5d 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 time for mails from Wellington: Next mail, noon, Thursday, October 10. Postage rates: Letters, Hawaii 2s 6d each halfounce; United States and Canada (including air in America), 4s each half-ounce; Great Britain, 5s 9d each half-ounce. For further particulars, apply to 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. —xAir Honolulu-New York only (as opportunity offers), normal transit time, approximately 3 weeks; postage rates (each halfounce), Is 9d. Route. —xAir 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 approximately 2 weeks; postage rates (each half-ounce), 4s. | Route. —Air New Zealand. United States of | America, Great Britain (by trans-Pacific nnd| transatlantic air mail), normal transit time.1 12 days; postage rates (each half-ounce), 5s i 9d. , . I xConnections uncertain, letters accepted at sender's risk. INLAND MAILS. (Unless otherwise indicated mails are closed daily:)