MAIL NOTICE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 31, 6 February 1941, Page 11

MAIL NOTICE

♦— Mails close at Chief Post Office, Wellington, Cl, as under: — Mails close 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. (Malls for Auckland, per "Limited" express, close at these offlces at 4.30 p.m.) Overseas mails will be dispatched as opportunity offers. TRANS-TASMAN AIR SERVICE. Mails will close at Wellington three timss each fortnight. Postage rates :, Australia (including air services in Australia), letters 5d each half-ounce, postcards 3d. Egypt, Africa, and Intermediate Empire countries, ls 6d each half-ounce, postcards i)d. 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 AIB MAIL. The closing times for mails from Wellington :—Next mail, 4 p.m., Thursday, February 13. Postage rates: Letters, Hawaii 2s 6d each half-ounce; United States and Canada (including air tn America), 4s each half-ounce; Great Britain, 5s 9d eacb half-ounce. For further particulars apply to Post Office. AIB-MAIL SERVICES TO GREAT BRITAIN. Route.—Air, New Zealand, Australia, Cape I'own only (by trans-Tasman air mail or Australian dispatches), normal transit time, on the average 45 days: postage rate (each halfounce), ls 6dL 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 ot imerica. Great Britain (as opportunity offers) ; normal transit time, under 3 weeks: postage rate (eacb half-ounce), 4s. Route.—Air, New Zealand-New York (by trans-Paciflc air mail), normal transit time, xpproxlmately 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 (eacb half-ounce), 5s 9d. x Connections uncertain, letters accepted at sender's risk. INLAND ftIAILS. (Unless otherwise Indicated mails are closed daily.) F. VV. MATHEWS, Chief Postmaster. Thursday, February 6, 1941.