MAIL NOTICE
Mails close at Chief Post Office, Wellington, Cl. as under: —
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-TASMAN AIR SERVICE.
Mails will close as opportunity offers.
Postage Rates.—Australia (including air services in Australia), letters 5d each half-ounce; postcards 3d; Egypt, Africa, and intermediate Empire countries, Is fid each half-ounce, postcards Od; foreign countries intermediate between Australia and Egypt, special rates apply. Inquiries at Post Ofllce. Note. —Postage rate 3 Include air services In New Zealand when necessary.
TRANS-PACIFIC AIR MAIL.
The closing times for i..ails from Wellington: —Next mail, 4 p.m.. Thursday, April 10. Postage rates: Letters, Hawaii, 2s fid 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) : postage rates (each halfounce). Is Cd.
Route.—Air, New Zealand-New York (by trans-Pacific air mail) ; postage rates (each half-ounce), 4s.
Route. —Air, New Zealand, United States of America, Great Britain (by trans-Pacific and transatlantic air mail) ; postage rates (each half-ounce), 5s 9d. HOLIDAY NOTICE. GOOD FRIDAY, APRIL It, 1941. Postal. Attendance. —Post Offices will be closed In all branches. Mails Outward.—lnland: Mails for principal places close at 8 p.m. on Thursday, April 10. Air Mails. —Air malls for dispatch by inland air services will close as follows: —Blenheim, 5.30 a.m.: Southern Offices. 10.20 a.m.; Nelson and West Coast, 10.45 a.m. : Auckland, New Plymouth, aud Palmerston North districts, 11 a.m. Street Receivers. —No clearance will be made. Postmen's Deliveries.. —There will be no delivery by postmen. Private Box Lobby.—Open as usual. Savings Bank.—Open from 7 p.m. to S p.m. on Thursday, April 10, for receipt of deposits only. Telegraph. Attendance. —Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin, 10 a.m. to 10.30 a.m., and fi.3o p.m. to 7.30 p.m. For other offices please Inquire at Telegraph Counter, dial 40-431 or see Post. Office Guide.
Telephone Exchanges
Attendances. —The principal exchanges will be open as usual.
EASTER SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 1941. Attendance. —The usual attendance will be observed in all branches.
A. PELLOW, Chief Postmaster,
Tuesday, April 8. 1941
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 83, 8 April 1941, Page 4
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410MAIL NOTICE Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 83, 8 April 1941, Page 4
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