MAIL NOTICE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 13, 16 January 1941, Page 11

MAIL NOTICE

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

Mails ciose at Post Offlce. Te Aro, C 2, and Wellington East, C 3, a half-hour prior to the closing of mails at the Chief Post Offlce, between the hours of 9.30 a.m. and 4.30 p.m. (Mails for Auckland, per "Limited" express, close at these offlces at 4.30 p.m.) Overaeas mails will be dispatched as opportunity offers. TRANS-TASMAN AIR 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 Offlce. Note.—Postage rates include air services in New Zealand when necessary. TRANS-PACIFIC AIR MAIL. The closing times' for mails from Wellington :—Next mail, 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 Australian dispatches), normal transit time, 35-40 days; postage rate (each half-ounce), ls 6d. Route. —s Air, Honolulu-New York only (as opportunity offers), normal transit time, approximately 3 weeks; postage rates (each halfounce), ls 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-Paciflc 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-Paciflc 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. ._ Mr. Robert Armstrong, Wellington manager of C. C. Wakefield and Co., Ltd., has received advice that Wakefield House, Cheapside, London, was bombed recently, and was very severely damaged.