MAIL NOTICE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2339, 22 December 1914, Page 8

MAIL NOTICE

Subject to necessary alterations mails will close at the Chief Post Office as under:— THIS DAT (TUESDAY), DECEMBER 22. Wanganui, New Plymouth, also Manavatu, Rangitikei, and Taranaki districts, per Manawatu train (Thorndon), 7.30 a.m. Wanganui, oleo Manawatu and Eangitikel districts, per Manawatu train (Thorndon), 3.15 i>.m. Wairarapa district, per Woirarapa train (Liimbton), 6.30 a.m. and 3.30 p.m. Napier and Hawke's Bay district, per Manawatu train (Tliorndon), 8.20 a.m. and 3.15 p.m. Auckland and distriot, also New Plymouth, Wanganui, and Nauicr, per Main Trunk train (Thorndon), 12.20 p.m. Palmerston North, Napier, Wanganui, Auckland, and Auckland district, per Second Main Trunk train (Thorndon), 8 p.m. (except Saturdays).

South America, via Monte Video. Teneriife; also United Kingdom and Continent of Europe (due London February 1, 1915), per Tongariro.. 10.30 a.m. (Correspondence for United Kingdom and Continent of Europe must be specially addressed. Picton, Blenheim, and Nelson per Mapourika, 11.50 a.m., 12.5 p.m. Nelson, French Pass, and Waikawa Bay, per Nikau, 4.20 p.m. Southern Offices of New Zoaland, per Monowni, 4.20 p.m.. Southern Offices of New Zealand, -per Moeraki, 4.20 p.m. Southern Officcs of New Zealand, and Greymouth, Hokitika,. and Reefton. also Tasmania, to connect with tho Wimmera at the Bluff (due Hobart December 28). per Maori, 6.15 p.m. WEDNESDAY, DEOEMBER 23. Napier and Gisborne,' per Paloona,. 4.20 p.m. Picton,' Blenheim, and Nolson, also the Bays, l to connect with the Elsie at Havelock, per Pateena, 4.20 p.m. Southern Offices, of Now Zealand; also Greymouth, Hokitika, and Reefton, per Wahine, 6.15 p.m. THURSDAY, DEOEMBEE 24. ' Parcel Hail for Australian States end the East, per Moeraki, 2.30 p.m. Australian States (due Sydney December 28). per Moeraki, 3.30 p.m. Ceylon, India, China, Japan, Strait? Settlements, South Africa, and Continent of Europe, and United Kingdom, via Brindisi (due London February 5), ,per. Moeraki, 3.30 p.m. Money orders mu6t be obtained two hours before the advertised time of closing the mails. •' (Correspondence for United Kingdom and Continent of Europo must be specially addressed.) REMINDERS. Mails for Australian Stat<« and South Africa, also Tonga. Samoa, and Fiji, olose at Auckland, per Maheno, on Monday, December 28, at 4 p.m. Mails for Australian States and South Africa, close at Auckland, per Riverine, This Day, at 10.45 a.m. The next best dispatch for Canada, United States of America, Central America, West Indies, Mexico, United States of Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, British, Dutch, and French' Guiana, closes at Auckland, per Makure, on Tuesday, December 29, at 10.30 a.m On Friday, December 25 (Christmas Day) the Postal Department will be closed in all its branches. Mails for dispatch by steamers will close at 8 p.m. on the previous evening, and the only dispatches of correspondence by trains will close on Christmas Day as follows;— For the Wairarapa, Hawke's Bay, Manawatu, Rangitikei, Wanganui, and Taranaki districts at 5.45 a.m., and for Auckland and Auckland district at 8 a.m. The City ajid suburbs receivers will not be oleajed during the day, but the midnight clearances will bn made as usual.

On Thursday, December 24, in extra clearance will be made from the city and suburban receivers as follows:— I To Aro, Wellington South, and Thorndon, at 5 p.m.; Hatatai, Kilbirnie, Miramax. Seatoun, IBland Bay, Vogeltown, Brooklyn, Kclburn, Northland, and Wadestown. at 4 p.m. There will not bo any deliveries by letter-carriers on Christmas Day, but on Thursday, December 24, tho Carriers' Department (entrance upstairs from Feathcrston Street) will be open for the delivery of correspondence addressed to Btreets in the city and suburbs from 8 to 9 p.m.; also tho public counter for tho delivery of correspondence addressed to the Post Office will be open from 8 to 9 p.m. The parcels delivery counter will open from 8 to 9 p.m. On Saturday. December 26 (Boxing Di.y) the Chief Post Office will be open in all ita branohes (except Money-order and Bav. ings Bank) from 9 to 10 a.m. Mails for dispttch by steamers will close at 8 a.m.. ejid the only dispatches of correspondence by trains will close as follows:—For Wairarapa, Hawke's Bay, Manawatu, Rangitikei. Wanganui, and Taranaki Districts, at 5.45 a.m.; for Auckland and Auckland district at 8 a.m. There will be one delivery of correspondence by letter-carriers in the city end suburbs, which will close at the Chief Post Offlco at 7 a.m. The receivers in the City, Central, To Aro, Thorndon, and Wellington South will bo cleared ones during the day at 4 p.m. A. P. DRYDEN, Chief Postmaster. Chief Post Offloe, Wellington, December 22, 1914. '