MAIL NOTICE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2341, 24 December 1914, Page 8

MAIL NOTICE

e ( THIS DAY (THURSDAY), DEOEMBEE 24. Subject to necessary alterations mails will close, at the Chief Post Office as under:— Wanganui, New Plymouth, also Manawatu, Eangitikei, and Taranaki districts, per Manawatu train (Thorndon), 7.30 a.m. Wanganui, also Manawatu and Eangitikei districts, per Manawatu train (Thorndon), 3.15 p.m. Wairarapa district, per Wairarapa train (Lambton), 6.30 a-.ni. and 3.30 p.m. Napier and Hawkc's Bay district, per Manawatu train (Thorndon), 8.20 a.m. and 3.15 p.m.

Auckland and district, also New Plymouth, Wanganui, and Napier, per Main Trunk train (Thorndon), 12.20 p.m. Palinerston North, Napier, Wanganui, Auckland, and Auckland district, per Second Main Trunk train' (Thorndon), 8 p.m. (except Saturdays). Nelson, per Alexander, 3.20 p.m. Nelson, French Pass, and Westport, per Kaitoa, 4.20 p.m. Blenheim and Picton, per Wairau, 4.20 p.m. Picton and 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 Reofton, per Maori, 6.15 p.m Southern Offices of New' Zealand, per Victoria, 7.45 p.m. Nelson, per Arahura, 7.45 p.m. Parcel Mail for Australian States and the East, per Moeraki, 2.30 p.m. Australian States (duo Sydney Decemher 28), per Moeraki, 3.30 p.m. Ceylon, India, China, Japan, StralW Settlements, South Africa, and Continent of Europe, and United Kingdom, via Brindisi (due London February 5), per Moeraki, 330 p.m. Money orders must.be obtained two hours before the advertised timo of closing tho mails. (Correspondence for United Kingdom and Continent of Europe must be specially addressed.) Southern Offices of New Zealand, also Greymouth, Hokitika, and Eeefton. per Wahine, 8 p.m. (Steamer sails 7.45 p.m. Friday). Nelson-and French Pass, per Pateena, 8 p.m. (Steamer.sails 9.p.m. Friday.) SATURDAY, DEOEMBEE 26. Picton, Blenheim, Nelson, Westport, Greymouth, Hokitika, and Eeefton; also the Bays, between Picton, Crail Bay and tho Portage via Torea Neck to connect with an oil launch at Picton, per Arahura,, 6 a.m. (Steamer sails 12.45 p.m.)

Southern Offices of New Zealand: also Greymouth, Hokitika, and Eeefton, peP Maori, 8 a.m. (Stcamor sails 11 p.m.) SUNDAY, DECEMBER 27. Australian States and South Africa, also Tonga, Samoa, and Fiji, to connect with Tofua, at Sydney (due Sydney, January I), per Main Trunk Train, 8 p.m. MONDAY, DEOEMBEE 28. Fiji, Fanning Island, Honolulu, and Jo pan, 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 Europe (due London January 29), per Makura. from Auckland, per Main 'lh-unk train, 12.20 p.m. REMINDERS. Mails for AustraHan States and South Africa, also Tonga, Samoa, and Fiji, closo at Auckland, per Malicno, on Monday, Decemher. 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, oil Tuesday, Decomber 29, at 10.30 a.m.

On Friday. December 25 (Christmas Day) tho Postal Department will bo closed in all its branches. Mails for dispatch by steamers will closo at 8 p.m. on the previous evening, and tho only dispatches*' of correspondence by trains wiU 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 and suburbs receivers will not be cleared during the day, but the midnight clearances wiH be made as usual.

On Thursday, December 24, an extra, clearance will be made from the city and suburban receivers as follows:—Te Ato, Wellington South, and Thorndon, at 5 p.m.; Hatatai, Kilbirnie, Miramar, Seatoun, Island Bay, Vogeltown, Brooklyn, Kclburn Northland, and Wadostown, at 4 p.m. Thero will not be any deliveries by letter-carriers on Christmas Day, but on Thursday, December 24, tho Carriers' Department (entrance upstairs from Featherston Street) will bo open for tho delivery of correspondence addressed to streets in the city and suburbs from 8 to 9 p.m.; also tho public counter for the delivery of correspondence addressed to the Post Office will ho open from 8 to 9 p.m. The parcels delivery counter will open from 8 to 9 p m On Saturday. December 26 (Boxing D«,y) the Chief Post Office will be open in all its branches (except Money-order and Savings Bank) from 9 to 10 a.m. Mails foT dispatch by steamers will close at 8 a.m., and the only dispatches of correspondence by trains will closo 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 tho city and suburbs, which wiU closo at tbo Chief Post Office at 7 a.m. The receivers in the City. Central, Te Aro, Thorndon and Wellington South will bo cleared once during tho day at 4 p.m. A. P. DRYDEN, Chief Postmaster. Chief Post Office, Wellington, December 24, 1914.