MAIL NOTICES

Greymouth Evening Star, 19 September 1940, Page 6

MAIL NOTICES

Mails close at the Chief Post Office as under. Reefton, 6.8 a.m. and 2.40 p.m. Nelson, 6.8 a.m. s Westport, daily 7 a.m. and Mon.. Tues., Thurs., Sat., 4 p.m. Hokitika, 6.35 a.m.., 10.15 a.m., and 3.45 p.m. s Christchurch, Dunedin, and North Island, Mon., Tues., Thurs., Sat., 9.18 a.m., late fee 9.48 a.m. Wellington letters only, Wed. and Fri., 6.8 a.m. Christchurch and Dunedin 4.30 p.m. and 6 p.m.; late fee 5 p.m. and 6.30 p.m. Saturday 7.30 p.m., late fee 7.45 p.m. INLAND AIR MAIL.. Westport, Nelson,* Blenheim and North Island 7 a.m. ■ North Island, Nelson, Blenheim, and Dunedin, Monday to Friday, 6.45 p.m. Dunedin, Saturday, 7.45 p.m. Trans-Tasman Air Mail, Monday, September 23, 9.18 a.m., and per inland air-mail 4.30 p.m. . -WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25. Trans-Pacific air-mail U.S.A., Canada, Great Britain 6.8 a.m. and per inland air-mail 4.30 p.m. C. W. BROWNE, ■ Chief Postmaster,

Official Summer time will begin in New’Zealand at 2 a.m. on'Sunday, September 29, when clocks will be advanced half an hour. The period of Summer time will continue until the last Sunday in April, 1941.

In emulation of the recent incidental Auckland University College, when red pants, an umbrella, and a beer bottle were placed on |he college tower, a pair of underpants has been placed on the spire of Victoria University, College, Wellington. The spire, oh the north-east corner of the library wing, is at the end of a steeply-sloped slate roof, and some skill and daring must have been employed in adorning it/ r

Empire Games champion and' re-cord-holder over the half-mile, V. P. Boot, of Canterbury, is now in camp at Te Rapa racecourse. New Zealand’s'foremost middle-distance runner before war broke out, he is now a second-lieutenant in the headquarters company of the 29th Infantry Battalion. Second-Lieutenant Boot finds the racecourse an excellent training ground, and several other soldiers under canvas at Te Rapa have joined him in an occasional trial run. ■ - Import difficulties and much higher landed costs have severely restricted the use of Japanese oak, which formerly was extensively used in the production of furniture in Auckland. Since the war the price of Japanese oak has doubled. Rimu has largely taken the place of. oak and, with a'rtistic staining, has gained new distinction. The trend of design is toward simplicity. The furniture trade is described as exceptionally busy, the usual falling-off in the Winter months not having been noticed this year.