MAIL NOTICE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 10, 13 January 1941, Page 4

MAIL NOTICE

Mails close at Chief Post Office, Wellington, Cl, as under: —

I Mails close at Post Office, Te Aro, C 2, and Wellington East, C 3, a half-hour 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.) Overseas mails will be dispatched as opportunity offers. TRANS-TASMA.N AIK SERVICE. Mails will close at ■Wellington three times each fortnight. Postage rates: Australia (including air services in Australia), letters 5d each half ounce, postcards 3d. Egypt, Africa, and intermediate Empire countries, Is 6d each half-ounce, postcards 9d. Foreign countries, intermediate between Australia and Egypt, special rates apply. Inquiries at Post Office. Note.—Postiigo .rates include air services in New Zealand when necessary. TRANS-PACIFIC AIR MAIL. The closing times for malls from Wellington :—Next mall, 4 p.m., Friday, January 17. 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 Aus- j tralian dispatches), normal transit time, 35-40 days; postage rate (each half-ounce), Is 6d. Route.—x Air, Honolulu-New York only (as opportunity offers), normal transit time, approximately 3 weeks; postage rates leach halfdunce),'. 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 (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 and transatlantic air mail), normal transit time 12 days; postage rates (each half-ounce), 5s 9d. x Connections uncertain, letters accepted at sender's risk.