MAIL NOTICES

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1092, 3 April 1911, Page 7

MAIL NOTICES

Subject to necessary alterations, laallo will close- at tho . Chief Post Office aa under:— ..-,.• . ' -.'. THIS DAY, MONDAY, APRIL 3. Wanganul, New Plymouth. nlso Manawatu, Rangitikei, and Taranaki districts, per Mauawatu train "(Thorndon Station). 6.30 a.m. » Wanganui, also Manawatu and Rangitikei districts, per Manawatu train IThorndon Station). 3 p.m. Wuirarapa district, per Wairarana train (Lainbton Station, 6.30 a.m. and 3.45 p.m. Napier and Hawkc's Bay district, per Mauawatu train (Thorndon Station), 8 a.m. and 3 p.m. Auckland and district, also New Plymouth and Wanganui, per Main Trunk train (Thorndon Station). 11.15 a.m..] ■ Picton, Blenheim. French Pass, and Nelson, also Havelock and the Bays, to connect with s.s. Elsie and oil launch at Picton, per Pateena, 11.50 a.m. Motueka, via Waikawa, and Admiralty Bays, per Mana-roa, 2.20 p.m. Now Plymouth, per Koonys., 2.20 p.m. Napier, Gisborno, and Auckland, per Hauroto, -4.20 p.m. Southern offices of New Zealand, also Grcyraouth, Hokitika, and Recfton, per Maori, 6 p.m. Picton, Blenheim, and. Nelson, per Rosama ml, 7.45 p.m. Nelson, Wcstport, Greymouth, and Hokitika, per Alexander, 4.20 p.m., I'icton and Blenheim, per Kaliu, 11 a.m. United Kingdom and Continent of Europe, via Monte Video (due London about May 17), per Orari, 10 a.m. ' (For specially addressed correspondence only.) TUESDAY. APEIL 4. Norfolk, New Hebrides, Banks, and Solo-' mou Islands, per Main Trunk train,. 11.15 a.m. Nelson, Wostnor;. Greymouth. Reefton, and Hokitika, per Mipourika, 3.20. p.m. Nelson, per Nikau. 4.20 p.m. Southern offices of New Zealand, • per Tarawera, 4.20 p.m. Southern offices of New Zealand, per Mararoa, 6 p.m. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5. Parcel mail for United Kingdom and Continent of Europe, per Kuahine, 5 p.m. FRIDAY. APRIL 7. Cpolt, Tahiti, and Penrhyn Islands, also United States of America, West Indies, and Canada, via. San Francisco, and United Kingdom and Continent of Europe (due London May 8), to connect with Manuka at Auckland, per Main Trunk train, 10.30 a.m. (Money-orders must bo taken out by 9.15 a.m.) Ceylon. India, China. Straits Settlements, South Africa, and Continent of Europe and United Kingdom, via Brindisi (due London May 14), per Warrimoo, 3 p.m. (Correspondence for United Kingdom must be specially addressed.) Australian State 3 (duo Sydney April 11). per Warrimoo, 3.30 p.m. ■ Mails for the Commonwealth of Australia and South Africa, via Sydney, per Victoria, close at Auckland to-day, at 4.15 p.m. Mails for Australian States and South Africa close at Auckland, per Victoria, this day, at 4.15 p.m., and at the Bluff, per Uliraaroa, at 3.30 p.m. Mails for Norfolk, New Hebrides, Banks, and SolDmon Islands, close at Auckland, per Southern Cross, Wednesday, April 5, at 10.45 a.m. Mails for Niue now close at Auckland at 11.45 a.m. to-day, per Kereru. . . Mails for the Commonwealth of Australia only, via. Sydney, per Kaitunu, close at Greymouth to-day at 11 a.m. ; Mails for' Commonwealth of Australia only, via Hobart, per Ulimaroa. close at the Bluil to-day at 3.30 p.m. Tho next best dispatch for Canada, United States of America. West Indies, United Kingdom, and Continent of Europe, will ■be via. Barotonga, Tahiti, and San Francisco, closing at Wellington, per Main Trunk train, Friday. April V. at 10.30 a.m. All books and sample-packets and newspapers for places within the Dominion must be posted half an hour before the ordinary letter-mail closee. Unless otherwise specified, registered letters and parcels-post packages must bo handed in and nionc.y-ordere obtained ono hour before tho ordinary letter mail closes. All the principal mails by train and steamer close at Te Aro and Courtenay Place Post Offices at tho same hours as at the Chief Post Office, with the exception that thero is no late-fee clearance. Owing to recent changes in the lettercorners' deliveries ia Wadestown, the following alterations in times of clearing posting boxes have been found necessary, to take effect from Monday, Aprli 3, next:— Main and Roscoe Eoads. now cleared, 10.15 a.m. and 3.30 pm.; to bo cleared 10 a.m. and 3 p.m.; Wadestown Post Office, nowcleared 10.15 a.m. aud 3.30 p.m.; to be cleared, 9.30 a.m. and 3 p.m. D. MILLER, Chief Postmaster. Chief Post Office, Wellington, April 3, 1911. Speaking at a meeting of the Royal Institute of Public. Health—called 'to-, gethcr to discuss the question of the extermination of rats in Knglanil, Sir James Ci'ichton-Browiio said that experiments hail shown that each rat consumed grain or'did other damage to the extent of a farthing a day. Tho calculation was that there was one rat to every acre in England and Wale?, and if that worn so the agricultural loss due to rats wns •£15,000,000 a year. If the rat wore exterminated we might reduce our importation of grain to the value of .some millions per annum. It was a wonder so ruinous a pcourgo should have boon tolerated to long, and they were justified in looking forward to Ugtalation. A campaign against rats lias been started,