MAIL NOTICES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2454, 6 May 1915, Page 8

MAIL NOTICES

Subject to neccssary alterations, mails will close at the Chief Post Office as un> dc-r:— THIS DAY (THURSDAY), MAY 6. Wanganui, New Plymouth, also Ifanaxratu, Rangitikei, and Taranaki districts, per Manawatu train (Thorndou Station), 7.30 am. Wanganui, also Mnnavatu and RangJ.« tikei districts, per Manawatu train (Thorndon Station), 3.15 p.m. Wairarapa district, peT Wairarapa tram (Lambton Station), 6.30 a.m. and 3.30 p.m. Napier and Hawke's Hay district, p*ir Manawatu train (Thorn-don Station), fi.2o a.m. and 3.15 p.m. Auckland and district, also New PBymouth, Wanganui, and Napier, per W«,in Trunk train (Thomdon Station), 12.20 p.m. PaJmerston North, Napier, Wanganui, Auckland, and Auckland district, per second Main Trunk train (Tliorndon Station), 8 p.m. (except Saturdays). Napier and Gisborne, per Victoria, 3.20 p.m. Nelson, French Pa6S, and Westport, per Kaitoa. 4.20 p.m. Southern offices of New Zealand, also Greymoutb, Hokitika, and Rcefton, per Maori, 6.15 p.m. Parcel mail for Australian States end the East, per Manuka, 2.30 p.m. Australian States (duo Sydney May 10), per Manuka, 3.30 p.m. Ceylon, India, China, Ja.pau, Strains Settlements, South Africa, and Continent of Europe and United Kingdom, via Naples (due London Juno 18), per Manuka, 3.30 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.) t A better dispatch, which will be advertised later, will arrive at London one day earlier than this. FRIDAY, MAY 7. Picton, Blenheim, French Pass, and Nelson, per Pateena, 11.50 a.m. Kaikoura, per Cygnet, 3.20 p.m. Southern offices of New Zealand, per Tarawera, 4.20 p.m. Southern offices of. Now Zealand, also •Greymouth, Hokitika, and Reef ton, per Wahine, 6.15 p.m. • SATURDAY, MAY 8. Tasmania, Victoria, South Australia, end Western Australia (due May 15), per Mokoia, 3.30 p.m. (Money-orders must be obtained by noon.) REMINDERS. Mails for Chatham Islands close at Lyttelton, per Himitangi, at 4.30 p.m. this day. Mails for Australian States and _ South Africa close at Auckland, per Riverina, on Tuesday, May 11, at 10.45 a.m. Mails for Rarotonga and Tahiti cloee at Auckland, per Talune, on Tuesday. May 11, at 10.45 a.m. Mails for Niue Island close at Auckland, per Kereru, on Monday, May 10, at 9.15 a.m. Late letters for mails oeyond the Do* minion caunot in future be ported on the steamer, but must be posted in the laeletter posting box at the Chief Post Office up to the appointed time shown on tho mail noice. , The advertised times for closing mails by steamers ere liable to ateration (earlier or later) at any moment. The parcel-poet mail per Main Trank express clocos at the C.P.O. at 11.30 a.m., and for the south i>er ferry steamer at 5.45 p.m. Parcels for dipatch by team ex and trains, with the exception of the u6ual ferry steamers for southern offices, closq at the Chief Post Office, Wellington, one hour before the advertised times of closing of mails. As the last clearance of the city receivers is made at 5.45 p.m. on Saturdays, all correspondence , for tne Sunday night Auckland express must he posted at the Chief Post Office not later than 8 p.m. on Sunday. The public are earnestly requested to register all letters containing money or valuables intended to be sent by post. All books and sample-packets and newspapers for places within the Dominion must bo posted haif an hour before the ordinary letter-mail closes. Unless otherwise specified, registered letters and parcels-post packages must be handed in and money-orders obtained one hour before tho ordinary mail closes. All the principal mails by train and steamer close at To Aro and Courtenay Place Post Offices at the same hoars as at the Chief Post Office, with tho exception that there is no lato-feo clearance, and that mails by the ferry steamers for southern offices close at 5.45 p.m. Mail 6 for Auckland and Auckland district per second Main Trunk express close at Courtenay Place at 5.45 p.m. and To Aro at 8 p.m. A. P. DRYDEN, Chief Postmaster. Chief Post Office, Wellington, May 6, 1915.