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NEXT BAILING FROM HONGKONG SECOND WEEK IN JULY
(Omitting Honolulu)
Fast through AIR CONDITIONED trains from ship's side at Vancouver take you through the Ma- jestic Canadian Rockies-Lake Louise, Banff-600 miles of travel through Marvelous Mountain Scenery, Niagara Falla and the Great Lakes can be included as optional routes on your coast-to-coast trip. Stop over anywhere you wish.
Then Montreal and Quebec, gay French-speaking cities on the famous St, Lawrence Seaway, and quick crossing to Europe by one of Canadian Paci- fic's Atlantic fleet.
NEXT SAILING TO MANILA THE FIRST WEEK IN JULY
For Full Information Consult, Your Travel Agent
Union Building
Hong Kong
Telephone 20752
OR
THE CHINA MAIL JUNE 29, 1940.
POST OFFICE
GENERAL HOLIDAY
On Monday, the 1st July, the General Post Office and Kowloon Contral Post Office will be open from 8 a.m. to noon, Shqungwan Branch Post Office will be open from 8 a.m. to. 10. a.m. and the other Branch Post Offices will be entirely closed...
There will be one collection from the pillar boxes as on Sundays, one delivery of ordinary correspondence-at-11.30-a.m.-and_one_delivery_of_regis- ⚫tered correspondence at 11 a.m.
There will also be one delivery of ordinary correspondence at 11 a.m. from the Branch Post Offices at Stanley, Talpo and. Un Long.
The Money Order Office will be entirely closed.
Air mail letters will be accepted for transmission to Europa by Pan- American Service. to New York and onwards thence by sea, at $2.80 per half- -ounce for the air transport, plus 15 cents per ourice to British possessiona
and 25 cents per ounce to foreign countries in respect of sea transport.
An experimental air service for Europe via United States of America and Trans-Atlantic -Service has also been introduced, the charge being $5 per half-ounce for letters and postcards' $2.50 each,—Ân-approximate estim- ate of the time ocoupled in this transmission is twelve days from the date of departure of the Clipper from Hong Kong.
The postage rates via the revised Imperial Airways Service changed.
Shanghai
Shanghai and Amoy London and Straits
Japan and Shanghai
are un.
Small Packet Post to all countries is suspended.
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June 29.
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June 29.
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(San Francisco date, 8th
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July 1.
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July 1.
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July 2.
Haiphong and Hoihow
July 2.
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July 2,
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June)
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END OF JULY, 1940.
For Freight or Passage, apply to :-
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Agents
Hong Kong, China & Japan.
Tel. 30332
OUTWARD MAILS
Registered and Parcel Malls are closed 15 minutes earlier than the time given below unless otherwise stated, and where malls are advertised to close at or before 9 a.m., registered and parcel mails are closed at 5 p.m. on the previous day.
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Shanghai (Parcels only) Formosa, Shanghai and Japan
Par
SATURDAY
Parcels, Ord.,
Date and Timo.
June 29, 10.30 a.m. June 29, 11.30 a.m. .June 29, 12.30 p.m.
Straits, Ceylon, India, Mombasa, Beira, Lourenco-Marques,
East and South Africa
June 29, 2.30 p.m.
June 29, 5.30 p.m.
Air Mail for "Imperial Airways Ser- vice" to Durban and thence by Sea Service to United Kingdom. Manila
G.P.O. & K.P.O.
Reg.,
.June 29, 5.00 p.m.
Ord.,
.June 29, 5.30 p.m.
June 29, 5.30 p.m.
SUNDAY
Canton
MONDAY
:: Bangkok Straits Haiphong Canton
• Superscribed correspondence only.
June 30, 7.15 a.m.
July 1, Noon. July 1, Noon. July 1, Noon. July 1, 5.00 p.m.
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