Mail Notices

Northern Advocate, 13 September 1940, Page 4

Mail Notices

In future, the mail for Auckland which closes at Whangarei Post Office at 5 p.m. will be restricted to letters only.

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 for each 3 oz.) will apply. Parcels.—Parcels not more than 31b. in weight: 1/-. Parcels not more than 71b. in weight (maximum), 2/-. TRANSTASMAN AIR SERVICE. The frequency of the service is being increased to three trips each fortnight. Postage Rates.—Australia (including air services in Australia): Letters, 5d each half-ounce; postcards, 3d. Great Britain, via Cairo and Capetown: Letters, 1/6 each half-ounce; postcards, 9d. Egypt and Iraq: Letters, 1/6 each half-ounce; postcards, 9d. Mails close at Whangarei: Every week, 5 p.m. Tuesday. Additional, every alternate week, 5 p.m., Thursday, connecting with the Transpacific air service. SECOND-CLASS MAIL MATTER. In future the closing time at Whangarei Post Office for all second-class mail matter for inclusion in mail despatched after 4 p.m. will be 4 p.m. Second-class matter includes all matter not paid for at letter rates. TRANS-PACIFIC AIR SERVICE, j ’The closing time for the next des-! patch will be at 5 p.m. on Thursday, ] September 12. Due San Francisco on I September 19. j Postage Rates: New Zealand-New i Caledonia, 1/- each half-ounce; N.Z.Hawaii, 2/6 each half-ounce; N.Z.U.S. of America (including transit by air on the U.S. internal services), 4/each half-ounce; N.Z.-Great Britain' and Europe (via U.S.A.), 6/3 each halfounce. !

The charges for postcards will be half the charges mentioned above.