MAIL NOTICE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 40, 17 February 1941, Page 9

MAIL NOTICE

Mails close at Chief Post Office, Wellington. Cl, as under: — / Mails close at Post Office, Te Aro, C 2, and Wellington Bast, C 3, a half-hour prior to the closing of mails at the Chief Post Office, between the hour^ of 9.30 a.m. and 4.30 p.m. (Mails for Auckland, per "Limited" express, close at these offices at 4.30 pun.) Overseas mails will be dispatched as opportunity offers. ' , TKANS-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 Office. 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., Tuesday, February 18, and 4 p.m., Thursday, February 27. Postage rates: Letters, Hawaii 2s 6d each half : ounce; 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, on the average 45 days; postage rate (each halfounce), Is 6d. Route. —x Air, Honolulu-New Yorit only (as opportunity offers), normal transit time,'.approximately 3 weeks; postage rates (each halfounce), Is 9d. Route —x Air, Honolulu, United States of America, Great Britain (as opportunity offers) ; normal transit time, under 3 weeks; postage rate (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. F. \V. MATHEWS, Chief Postmaster. Monday, February *17, 1941.