MAIL NOTICE

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 108, 2 November 1940, Page 12

MAIL NOTICE

Mails (except parcel mails) will be closed at Chief Post Office. Wellington. Cl, an under :— Mails close at Post O!lU%', Te Aro, C 2, and Wellington Kaat. Co, auil liv If •hourly prior to the eluding of mails ut tliu Chief Post Office, between the hours of a.30 a.m. and 4.30.p.m. (Jluils for Auckland, per "Uniited" express close nt these olfices at 4. 30 p.m.) OVERSEAS MAILS (OUTWARD). TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 5, Cluiihani Islands, 5 p.m. THUIiSIMY. NOVEMBER 1. Austruliiiti Stales and countries via Auslia. 11 a.m. Other overseas mails will lie dispatched a* import unity offers. CHRISTMAS MAILS FOX GREAT BRITAIN, AUSTRALIA, ETC. It Is uot possible this year to furnish closing dates of Christmas mails for overseas, but the following information is supplied:— America, suggested time of posting, November (last week) ; Australia, suggested time of posting, mid-December. Early posting is recommended in view of the uncertainty of transit time. ■ ' ■ TRANS-TASMAN SERVICE. Malls will close at Wellington at noon, Tuesday, November 5; arid 8-p.m., Friday, Noranber Postage Kates.—Australia (Including air services In Australia) : Letters, sd, each halfounce; postcards, 3d; Egypt, Africa, aud intermediate Empire countries, Is 6d each balfounce, postcards, ltd. Foreign countries, intermediate Between Australia and- Egypt, special rates apply. Inquire at Post Office. Note.—Postage rates . include, air services .ia New Zealand when necessary. TRANS-PACIFIC AIR 'MAIL. The closing times for mails from Wellington: Next mail, noon, Saturday; November 9. 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, Cap* Town only (by trans-Tasman air mail or Australian dispatches), normal transit time; 32 days; postage rates (each half-ounce). Is lid. jf Ot ,te.—sAir Honolulu-New Yorlt only (a» opportunity offers), normal' transit time, approximately 3 weeks :■ postage rates (each half* ounce), Is Pd. Route.—sAU- Honolulu, United Stales of America, Great Britain (as opportunity offers)/ normal transit time, under 3 weeks; postage rates (each half-ounce), 45.. Route.—Air New Zealand-New York only (by trans-Pacific air mail), normal transit time, approximately t weeks; : postage rates (each half-ounce), 4s. Route. —Air New Zealand, United States of America, Great Britain (by trana-Paclflc and transatlantic air mail), normal transit time, 12 days; postage rates (each half-ounce), D» 9dL ' xConnections uncertaiu, letters accepted *X sender's risk. . ■ : F. W. MATHEWS, , Chief PostmasterSaturday, November 2, 1940.