MAIL NOTICE.
Subject to any necessary alterations mails will close as under:— Registered letter made close one hour And. newspaper and parcel mails dost 45 minutes earlier than ordinary letter lU For offices in North Island daily, at 12.30 and 3.30 p.m. For Temuka, Geraldine, Ashburton and Christchurch daily, at 6 a.m., and 12;30 p.m., and 3.30 p.m. For Waimate and Oamaxu 6 a.m., 11 a.m., and 3 p.m. For Dunedin 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. For Invercargill 11 a.m. For Fairlie, Albury, Cave and Pleasant Point daily, at 6 a.m., and 3.15 p.m. For smaller offices see timetable over posting box in Chief Office, Timaril. Street posting boxes cleared daily at 1.30 p.m. and 10 p.m. in the suburbs, and noon and 2.45 p.m. and 11 p.m. in the main street. AERIAL MAIL SERVICE. Mail closes Timaru 11.30 a.m. Aeroplane leaves Timaru Noon. Arrives Ashburton 12.40 p.m. Ashburton 1 / p.m. Arrives Sockburn ... ... 1.40 p.m. All letters must be endorsed ‘‘Aerial Post,” and the postage rate will be sixpence in addition to the usual postage of 2d for the first two ounces, and one penny for each additional two eunces. A further “Express” fee of sixpence will ensure delivery by special messenger immediately on arrival. Express delivery labels and stamps •re obtainable at Poet Office Counter. Friday, February 18th, at 3.30 p.m. For Tonga, Samoa and ’Fiji, per Navua, from Auckland.
Monday, February 28th. For Cbok Islands, Tahiti, Penrhyn Island. United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada, Central and South America and Continent of Europe, via San Francisco, per Marama, from Wellington. Money orders and registered letters 2.30 p.m., books, packets and newspapers 3 p.m., and ordinary letters at 3.30 p.m. ,W. T. COAD, Chief Postmaster. Thursday, February 17th, 1921.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 170140, 17 February 1921, Page 6
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290MAIL NOTICE. Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 170140, 17 February 1921, Page 6
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