MAIL NOTICES.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 300, 18 December 1931, Page 2

MAIL NOTICES.

(Supplied by the Postal Department.) Mails close as under:— To-day (Friday), December 18. For northern ports at 5.25 p.m., late fee letters 5.55 p.m., guard’s van 7.10 p.m train. Parcels 4 p.m. Mails for Australian States, per Kaimiro from Greymouth, close at 3.30 p.m. Saturday, December 19. For northern ports at 5.25 p.m., late fee letters 5.55 p.m., guard’s van 7.10 p.m train. Parcels 4 p.m. Mails for Fiji, per Waikawa, from Auckland, close at 5.25 p.m., late fee letters 5.55 p.m-, guards van 7.10 pm. train. Special Christmas Air-Mails. Special air-mails will close as under: Connecting with aeroplane leaving Wellington on December 24: For Palmerston North, Wanganui, New Plymouth, Auckland, Gisborne, Hastings, Blenheim, Nelson and West Coast, close at. 5.25 p.m. Wednesday, December 23. For Timaru, Oamaru, Dunedin and Invercargill, per aeroplane from Christchurch, close at 10 a.m. Thursday, December 24. Rate:—Ordinary postage, plus airmail fee of 3d per oz. Outgoing Overseas Mails. Mails for Fiji, Tonga, Apia, Pago Pago, per Tofua from Auckland, close at 8 p.m. Thursday, December 24. Mails for Apia, Pago Pago and Niue Island, per Maui Pomare, from Auckland, close at 5.25 p.m. on Monday, December 21. Mails for Great Britain, Ireland and Continent of Europe (specially addressed correspondence only), via Cape Horn, per Port Dunedin, from Lyttelton, close at 9 a.m., Wednesday, December 23. Parcels at noon Tuesday. Due London January 28. Mails for Australian States, Egypt, Japan, China, Straits Settlements, Ceylon, India and South Africa, per Ulimaroa from Wellington, close at 5.25 p.m., Wednesday, December 23. Parcels 4 p.m. Connects with Karachi-London air-mail, due London January 26. Mails for Great Britain, Ireland and Continent of Europe, United States of America, Canada, West Indies, Mexico, Argentine, Brazil, Paraguay. Uruguay and Falkland Islands, via San Francisco, also Cook Islands and Tahiti, per Monowai, from Wellington, close at 5.25 p.m., Monday, Decelnber 28. Due London January 28. Correspondence will also be accepted for dispatch by airmail services in Canada and United States of America. Mails for Great Britain and Europe (specially addressed correspondence only), also Central America and South American Western States, via Panama, per Rangitata from Wellington, close at 5.25 p.m. on Wednesday, December 30. Incoming Overseas Mails. American mail, ex Ventura, from Los Angeles, via Auckland, due December 20. Australian mail, ex Ulimaroa from Sydney, due December 23. English mail, ex Rangitane from London. due December 23. English and American mail, ex Aorangi from Vancouver, due December 29. F. J. SHANKS, Chief Postmaster. ,