MAIL NOTICES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20667, 4 March 1937, Page 2

MAIL NOTICES

Subject to any necessary alteration mails will close at the Chief Post Office, Timaru, as under:— Registered letter mails close one hour earlier than ordinary letter mails. Late fee box at, the railway station cleared at due time arrival of express trains. For North Island Offices of New Zealand: Mondays 1 p.m., Tuesdays to Saturdays 3.30 p.m. For Christchurch, North Canterbury and Westland: Mondays 3.30 a.m. Daily 6 a.m. and 3.30 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays 1 p.m. Mondays to Fridays 7 p.m. (letters only). (Air mail 6.30 p.m. Monday to Friday inclusive.) For Ashburton: Daily 6 a.m. and 3.30 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays 1 p.m. Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays 10.45 a.m. For Temuka: Daily 5 a.m. and 3.30 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays 1 p.m. Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays 10.45 am. For Geraldine: Daily 5 a.m. and 3.30 p.m. (Mondays 3.30 excepted). Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays 1 p.m. Tuesdays. Thursdays and Saturdays 10.45 a.m. For Fairlie, Pleasant Point, Cave and Albury: Daily 6 a.m. (letters only), 3.15 p.m. Fairlie and Hermitage: Tuesdays. Thursdays and Saturdays, 10.45 a.m (letters only). Waimate: Daily 5 a.m., 6 a.m„ 10.45 a.m. Wednesdays and Fridays 2.45 p.m. Mondays. Tuesdays. Thursdays and Saturdays 3.30 p.m. Oamaru: Mondays 1 a.m. Daily 6 a.m. and 10.45 am. Wednesdays and Fridays 2.45 p.m. Mondays, Tuesdays. Thursdays and Saturdays 3.30 p.m. Mondays to Fridays 7 p.m. (letters only). Dunedin: Mondays 1 a.m. Daily 10.45 a.m. Mondays. Tuesdays and Thursdays 3.30 p.m. Wednesdays and Fridays 2.45 p.m. Mondays to Friday7 p.m. (letters only). Invercargill: Mondays 1 a.ml. Daily 10.45 a.m. Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays 3.30 p.m. Wednesdays and Fridays 2.45 p.m. Mondays to Fridays 7 p.m. (letters only). FRIDAY. MARCH 5 At 3.30 p.m. Late Fee 4 p.m. Great Britain, Ireland and Continent of Europe, Central and South American Western States and Jamaica, via Panama, per Rotorua, at Wellington (Due London, April 15.) SATURDAY, MARCH 6 At 3.30 p.m. Late Fee, 4 p.m. Great Britain, Ireland. Continent of Europe, Canada, United States of America,Wia San Pedro, also Apla, Pago Pago, Fiji, Hawaii, Japan, per Monterey, at Auckland. (Due London April 3.) SATURDAY, MARCH 6 At 3.30 p.m. Late Fee 4 p.m. Tonga, Samoa, Fiji and Cook Islands per Matua at Auckland. MONDAY, MARCH 8 At 1 p.m. Late Fee 1.30 p.m. Australian States, South Africa, Italy, China, Straits Settlement, Ceylon, Egypt, India and Fiji, per Awatea, at Wellington. Also air-mail correspondence for Great Britain, Egypt, South Africa and intermediate countries served by Australia, Singapore, England air-mail. (Due London. March 26.) WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10 At 3.30 p.m. Late Fee 4 p.m. Great Britain, Ireland and Continent of Europe, Central and South American Western States, via Panama, also Pitcairn Island, per Rangitiki. at Wellington. (Due London, April 13.) INCOMING OVERSEAS MAILS March 10—R.M.S. Niagara from Vancouver. English and American mail. March 12—S.S. Rangitata from London. English mail. H. MILLER, Chief Postmaster. Timaru, March 4, 1937.

“Great Britain is buying about 50 per cent more than we are purchasing from her, and we should endeavour to import everything possible from the Old Country,” said Mr E. H. Potter, at a meeting of the Auckland Electric Power Board, when the question of purchasing two trucks was under consideration. The general manager reported that either certain types of Canadian and English trucks were suitable for the board’s requirements, and that the difference in price was £lB5, the vehicle of British manufacture being the dearer. Argument in favour of the English trucks was also advanced by Mr H. T. Goldie, who pointed out that not only was Britain buying our goods, but the reason for the price of the trucks quoted being higher in price than the Canadian vehicles was that she was preparing to defend not only herself but the Dominion. Furthermore, the head of the British firm concerned had made gifts to New Zealand. The Hon. T. Bloodworth, M.L.C., urged that the board should accept the lowest advanced by the other members, as Canadians were just as much British as New Zealanders. If they took into account what the head of the English firm meant that they were just giving him another £2OO, which he could hand back. It would be a different proposition if a foreign product were being compared. The board finally authorised the general manager to purchase the English trucks.