MAIL NOTICE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2340, 23 December 1914, Page 8

MAIL NOTICE

THIS DAY (WEDNESDAY), DEOEMBER 23. Subject to necessary alterations mail 6 will close at the Ohief Post Office as under:— Wanganui, New Plymouth, also watu, Rangitikei, and Taranaki districts, per Monawatu train (Thorndon), 7.30 a.m. Wanganui, also Manawatu and Rangitikei districts, per Manawatu train (Thorndon). 3.15 p.m. Wairarapa district, per Wairarapa, train (Lambton), 6.30 a.m. and 3.30 p.m. Napier and Hawke's Bay district, per Manawatu train (Thorndon), 8.20 a.m. end 3.15 p.m. Auckland and district, also New Plymouth, Wanganui, and Napier, 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). Blenheim and Picton, per Opawa, 3.20 p.m. Napier and Gisbornc, per Paloona, 4.20 p.m. Picton, Blenheim, and Neleon, also the Bays, to connect with the Elsie at Havelock, per Pateena, 4.20 p.m. Southern Offices of New Zealand, also Greymouth, Hokitika, and Roefton, per Wahinc, 6.15 p.m. • THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24. Picton end Blenheim, per Arahura, 11.20 a.m. Nelson, French Pass, and Westport, per Nikau, 4.20 p.m Picton, Blenheim, and Nelson per Mapourika, 5 p.m. Southern Offices of New Zealand, per Monowai, 6.15 p.m. Southern Offices of New Zealand, also Greymouth. Hokitika, and' Reefton, per Maori, 6.15 p.m Southern Offices of New Zealand, per Victoria, 7.45 p.m. Nelson,- per Arahnra, 7.45 p.m. Parcel Mail for Australian States and the East, per Moeraki, 2.30 p.m. Australian States (due Sydney Decembor 28), per Moeraki, 3,30 p.m. Ceylon. India, China, japan, Straits settlements, South Africa, and Continent of Europe, and United Kingdom, via Brindisi (due London February 5), per Mooralti, 330 p.m. Money orders must be obtained two hours' before the advertised time of closing the mails. (Correspondence for United Kingdom and Continent of Europe must be specially addressed.) SATURDAY, DEOEMBER 26. Australian States and South Africa, also Tonga, Samoa, and Fiji, to connect with Tofua, at- Sydney (duo Sydney, January 1), per Main Trunli train, 12.20 p.m. (Lato fee letter-hoi Thorndon railway station 1.5 p.m.) MONDAY, DECEMBER 28. Fiji, Fanning Island, Honolulu, and Japan, Canada, United States of America, Central America, West Indies, Mexico, United States of Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, British, Dutch", and French Guiana, via Vancouver; also United Kingdom and Continent of Europo (due London January 29), per Makura. from Auckland, per Main Trunk train, 12.20 p.m. REMINDERS. Mails for Australian Stat< i, and Bouts Africa, also Tonga, Samoa, and Fiji, close at Auckland, per Maheno, on Monday, December 28, at 4 p.m. Mails for Fiji, Fanning Island, Honolulu, Canada-, United States of America, Central America, West Indies, Mexico, United States of Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, British, Dutch, and French Guiana, United Kingdom, and Continent of Europe, closes at Auckland, per Makura, on Tuesday, December 29, at 10.30 a.m.

. The advertised times for closing mails by steamers are liable to alteration (earlier or late) at any moment.

On Friday, December 25 (Christmas Day) tho Postal Department will ho eloped in nil its branches. Mails for dispatch by steamers will close at 8 p.m. on the previous evening, and tho only dispatches of correspondence by trains will close on Christmas Day as follows:—For the Wnirarana 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 and suburbs receivers will not bo cleared during the day but the midnight clearances will bo mado as usual.

On Thursday, December 24, an extra clear, ance will bo made from >the city and suburban receivers as foIIows:-To Aro. Wellington South, and Tborndon, at 5 p.m., Hatatai, Kilbirnie. Jliramar, Reatoun Island Hay, Vogeltown, Brooklyn, Kelhurn Northland, and Wndostoivn. at 4 p.m. There will not he any deliveries by letter-car] iers on Christmas Day, but on Thursday, December 24, the Carriers' Department (entrance upstairs from Featherston Street) will bo open for the delivery of correspondence addressod to streets in the oitv andi suburbs from 8 to 9 p.m.; also the public counter for the delivery of correspondence addressed to the Poet Office wiil be open from 8 to 9 p.m The parcels delivery counter will open from I to 9 in On Saturday, December 26 (Boxing D< rj the Chief Post. Office will be open in ill its branches (except Money-order and Savings Bank) \from 9 to 10 a.m. Mails for disnalch by steamers will close at 8 am and the only dispatches of corrcsnnndon-a by traine will elope as follows:—For Wiiraropa. Hawke's Bay, Manawatu. Rdngitikei. Wangflnni, 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 and snburbs, which will close at the Ohief Post OflVe at 7 a.m. The receiver* in the City. Central, To Aro, Thorndon'! and Wellington South will be cleared once during, the day at 4 p.m. A. P. DRTDEN, Chief Postmaster. Chief Poet Office, Wellington, ' December 23, 1914.