Mail Notices

Northern Advocate, 5 July 1940, Page 4

Mail Notices

OVERSEAS MAILS. A mail for Australian States and countries via Australia, will close at the Whangarei Post Office .at 10.45 a.m. on Tuesday, July 9. Other overseas mails will be despatched as opportunity occurs. . SECOND-CLASS MAIL MATTER. In future the closing time at Whangarei Post Office for ail second-class mail matter for inclusion in mails despatched after 4 p.m. will be 4 p.m. Second-class matter includes all matter not paid for at letter rates. CORRESPONDENCE FOR EXPEDITIONARY FORCE. The following postage rates have been fixed upon for correspondence addressed to New Zealand and all other soldiers, sailors and airmen of - the British Empire on active service:— Letters. —By surface transport: The inland letter rate (2d for the first oz. and Id for each succeeding § oz.) will apply. Newspapers.—The British Empire rate <§d for each 3 oz.) will apply. ; , Parcels. —Parcels not more than 3 lb. in weight: 1/-. Parcels not more than .7 lb. in weight (maximum), 2/-. •TRANSTASMAN AMI SERVICE. . The closing time for mails at the Whangarei Post Office will be 2.15 p.m., Saturday, each week. - • Postage Rates: Australia (including air services in Australia): Letters, 5d each half oz; postcards, 3d. ; trans-pacific air service. The service, to be operated on a fortnightly basis by Pan-American , Airways Ltd., is to be resumed with a flight commencing at San Francisco on July 12. - L The time-table for the first flight! ' will be as follows:—San Francisco, de- j • part July 12; Auckland, arrive July 17; j Auckland, depart July 20; San Fran-} : - disco, arrive July 24. :: V' The postage rates to be charged for | f; letters carried by this service will j .fc e; —New Zealand-New Caledonia, 1/-• ;.L- ea ch half-ounce; New Zealand-Hawaii, | v 2/6 each half-ounce; New Zealand-! United States of America (including j 0 transit by air on the United States j yv internal services), 4/-. each half-ounce; j h'v .Nevv Zealand-Great Britain and Eur- { V , ope (via U.S.A.), 6/3 each half-ounce, j fcharges for post-cards will be' ■ half the charges mentioned above. . ' ;