MAIL NOTICES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1941, 26 December 1913, Page 9

MAIL NOTICES.

i'. . . ' Subject to necessary alterations, mails will close at the Oliicf Post Ollicc, aa under-.— THIS DAY (FRIDAY), DECEMBER 20. WanpaiiKi. JTew Plymouth, also Ifannwatu. ltatljitikci and Taranakl districts, per Mnuawatu train (Thoruiion Station), .. War.ganui. also Manawatu and Eangi:tlkei districts, per Manawatu train (Thorndon Station), 3.15 p.m. Wairaraca. district (per \Yairnr;ra train (Lambton Station),.6.3o a-.m. and 3.30 p.m. train (Thorndon Station). 10.50 a.m. ,/,-Napier'lojid Kawke's 'Bay-district.- per Ma-unwatu-.traiu (Thorndon 'Station),. 8 a.m. and 3.15 p.m. . Auckland and district, also Now Ply- • mouth and Wangami:, per Main Trunk train (Thorndon.j.Btation). 10.50 .a.m. Auckland and/Auckland district, per Second Main Trunk Train (Thorndon Station). 7.45 p.m. (oxcept Saturdays). ' Ceylon, India, China, Japan, Straits Settlement's, South Africa, and Continent, of Europe and United Kingdom, via, Brindisi (duo London January 30), per Maunganui, 8 a.m. Honey-orders must bo obtained before "1 p.m. December 24. Australian States (duo Sydney December 30), per Mnunganui, 8 a.m. Jloncy-ordei'3 must bo obtained before 4 p.m. December 24. Kaikoura, per Wakatu, 8 a.m. Nelson and French Base, per Patcona, 8 a.m. Southern offices of New Zealand, cJc-o Wcstport, Rcefton. Qrcymouth, and Ilokitika, per Wahinc. 8 a.m. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27. Purcol mail for Monto Video, United Kingdom, and Continent of Europe, per Tokomaru, 9 a.m. South America, United Kingdom, and Continent of Europe (duo London February !5), per Tokomaru, 10.30 a.m. Nelson, per Nikan. 1.20 p.m. Picton, Blenheim, ami Nelson, per Arahura, 11.50 a.m. Australian States, and South Africa, to connect, with Mahcno at Auckland (due Sydney January 2), per Main Trunk train, 10.50 a.m. Southern offices o£ New Zealand, also Westport, Rcefton, Qrcymouth, Hokitika, and Chatham Islands, per Maori. 7.45 p.m. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28. Australian States and South Africa, to connect with Maheno at Auckland, per Main Trunk train, 7.45 p.m. Tho next best dispatch for United Kingdom and Continent of Europe will ho via Brindisi, closing at Wellington, oer JlauuRa.nui, tills day, at 8 a.m. Mails for Chatham Islands close at Lyttclton, per llimitangi, Monday, December 29, at 11 a.m. Tho next best dispatch for Cook Islands. Tahiti, Penrhyn Islands, United States of America, Canada, and Central America, will bo via San Francisco, closing at Wellington, per Tahiti, on Fridav January 2, at 3 p.m. The Parcel Post per Main Trunk exprcru closes afthe G.1'.0. at 10.30 a.m. and for tho South, per ferry steamer, at 6 p.m. ■ As the last clcaranco of tho city receivers is made at 0 p.m. on Saturdays, all correspondence for the Sunday night Auckland express must be posted at the Chief Post Office not later than 7.45 p.m. on Sunday. The public are earnestly requested to register all letters containing money or valuables intended to bo «cnt by post. All books and saniple-packot3 and newspapers for place? within, the Dominion must ho posted half an hour beforo the ordinary letter-mail clotes. Unless otherwise (specified, registered letter.-! onil parcels-post packages must be handed in and money-orders obtained one hour before the ordinary letter-mail closes: All the principal mails by train and "tcamcr close .at To Aro and Courtenav Place Post Offices nt the r.-ime hc'.irs as at Iho Chief Post Office, with the exception that there is no'late-fee clearance, and that mails by the ferry steamers for southern oflh-s. al.ji* mails for Auckland anil Auckland district by the Second Main Trunk trnin, clcc at 6 p.m. To-day (Boxing Day), the Chief Pest Office will be open in all branches, except the Money-order and Savings Bank Department, from 9 to 10 a.m. The onlv duapt-h of mails for Wai'-arapa. Hawke's Bay. Mann\valu, Wauganui. Taranaki, and Auckland district-! will close at 6.30 a.m., and mails for dispatch bv steamers will close at 8 a.m. The city and suburban receivers will not bo cleared durimr thc day. but the midnight clearances will be made as usual. The letter-carriers will make one full delivery in the city and suburbs, for which nil correspondence must ho posted at the Chief Post Ofiicc, by 7 a.m. On Thiir.=rtav. Jamurv 1 (Nc.v Year's Day), the Chief Post Office will bo clcecd in all branches. The only dispatch <;f mails for Wairarana, Hawke's B.iv. Jfanawatu. Hnu-jitikei, Wanganui, Taranakl, and Auckland districts- will close on that day at 6.30 a.m.. and mails foV dispatch hv r.teamcrs will close tho previous cvonintr at 8 p.m. There will be no clearances of the city and suburban receivers but at! tho -.-itv central Te Aro. and Thermion r«. 'coivsrs will he cleared the previous evening at 6 p.m., Wellington South 5 n.m and all others at 4 p.m. The midnight clearances will be made as usual. There <"ii! not be any deliverv by letter-carriers. On Wcdiicday, Dccomicr 31 the Im>uiry Counter will lie open from 8 to 9 p.m. for the delivery of ail correspondence addressed to the Chief Post Ofih-e, ami (he rame evening the Inquiry Counter in the ijcttci'-carrieivi' Department will bo open from 8 to 3 p.m. for delivery of all correspondence ,-uldressed tu streets In the citv and «üburbs; al=o the Public Counter in Parcel Department will be open from 0 tu 9 p.m. A. V. DIIVDEX, Chief Postmaster. Chief Post Oltic. Wellington. December Vi, 1513. WIRELESS. The following steamers will probably bo within wirc!ci-s range of Wellington this evening:—Wahinc. Maori. Jlauntranui; Maheiio; and Mamma. Tho Corlnthic will probably bo within riuso of tho C'lx»-Llia.tt> tsj>—', *ij.j-.m.