CHIEF POST-OFFICE.
Mails will close as under :— For Thames, on Monday, at 10.30 a.m. and 5.30 p.m. lor Wangarei Heads, etc., per Threo Brothers, this day, at 3 p.m. For JKJapanga; etc., per Lalla Rookh, on Monday, Ist May, at 11 a.m. For Wangarei Heads, etc., per Duke of ! Edinburgh, on Monday, Ist May, at 4 p.m. For Fiji, per Leonidas, on Wednesday, 3rd May, at 10 a.m. Note.—Post-offices have been opened at North Omauharo and Tryphena, Great Barrier. Note.—Correspondence for Belgium may in future be addressed to be sent by the Suez route via Brindisi direct. The rates of postage collected in New Zealand on such correspondence will pay for its conveyance as far only as Alexandria. These rates are as follow:—Letters not exceeding half an ounce, 6d.; every additional half an ounce, 6d.' Newspapers Id. "each. Books and pattern parcels not exceeding four ounces, 4d.; four •ounces to eight ounces, Bd.; every additional eight ounces, Bd. The weight of pattern parcels must not exceed eight ounces. S. B. BISS, Chief Postmaster.
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Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 406, 29 April 1871, Page 2
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173CHIEF POST-OFFICE. Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 406, 29 April 1871, Page 2
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