MAIL NOTICES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2651, 23 December 1915, Page 8

MAIL NOTICES

Subject to necessary alterations, mails will close at tho Chief Post Office as under

THIS DAY (THURSDAY), DECEMBER 23. Wangn.'iui, New Plymouth, also Manawatn, Rangitikei, and Taranaki di6tricte, per Man&watu train (Thorndon Station), 7.30 a.m.

Wanganui, also Manawatu and Rangitikei districts, per Manawatu train (Thorndon Station), 3.15 p.m. Wairarapa district, per Wairarape train (Lambton Station), 6.30 a.m. and 3.30 p.m. Napier and Hawke's Bay district, per Manawatu train (Thorndon Station), i.20 a.m. and 3.15 p.m. Auckland and district, also New Plymouth, .Wanganui, and Napier, per Main i Trunk train (Thorndon Station), 12.20 p.m. Palmerston North, Napier, Wanganui, Auckland, and Auckland district, per second Main Trunk train (Thorndon Station), 8 p.m. (except Saturdays). ' Westport, per Rakanoa, 9 a.m Picton, Blenheim, Nelson, Havelook, Reefton, and Wcstport, per Arahura, 11.50 a.m. South America, via Monte Video, Tenealso United Kingdom and Continent of Europe (due London February 4), (to conncct with Mamari at Auckland), per Main Trunk train, 12.20 p.m. (Parcel mails close at 10.20 a.m.) Correspondence for United. Kingdom and Continent of Europe must bo specially addressed per Mamari. Parcel mail for Australian States and tho East, per Manuka, 2.30 p.m. Australian States (duo Sydney December 27), (Expeditionary Forces, Egypt), per Manuka, 3.30 p.m.

Cc3'lon, India, China,, Japan, Straits Settlements, Egypt, South Africa, and Continent of Europe and United Kingdom, via Suez (duo London February 2, 1916), per Manuka. 3.30-p.m. Money-orders must be obtained one hour before the advertised time of closing the mails. (Correspondence for United Kingdom and Oontinent of Europe must be specially addressed.) Nelson, French Pass, Ha-velock, Rcefton,. and Westport, per Nikau, 4.20 p.m. Southern offices of New Zealand, r per Mokoia, 4.20 p.m. Napier and Gisborne, per Paloona, 4.20 p. 711. A f elfion, Westport, Greymouth, Hokitika, and Recfton, per Kennedy, 4,20 p.m. Southern oilices of New Zealand, also Wo?tport, Greymouth. Hokitika, and Reefton, per Mararoa, 6.15 p.m. Blenheim and Picton, via Blenheim, per Wairau, 7.45 p.m. I FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24. Picton, Blenheim, and Havelock, per ¥&■ teena, 11.20 a.m. Nelson. Reefton, and Westport,' per Kaatoa, 4.20 p.m. Southern offices of New Zealand, also Westport, Greymouth, Hokitika, and Reefton, per Maori, 6.15 p.m. Southern offices of ' New Zealand, per Mokoia, 7.45 p.ih MONDAY, DECEMBER 27. Fiji, Pago Pago, Samoa, Fanning Island, Honolulu, and Japan, United States of America, Canada, Central America, We6t Indies, Mexico, States of Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, British, French, and Dutch Guiana, via Vancouver, also United Kingdom and Continent iof Europe, per Niagara, from Auckland (due London January 27), per Main Trunk train, 8 a.m. Money-orders for Canada and United States of America must he obtained by 4 p.m. Friday, December 24. REMINDERS. The best dispatch for correspondence addressed to the United Kingdom and Continent .of Europe will bo via Vancouver, closing at Wellington, per Main Trunk train, on Monday, December 27 (Boxing Day), at 8 a.m. . Street receivers will not be cleared from midnight on Sunday to midnight on Boxing Day, and correspondence should be posted at the Chief Post Office by 8 a.m., or at Te Ato, Wellington South, "Wellington North, Courtenay Place, Molesworth Street, aud,Adelaide Road Post Offices by 7 a,m. on Stonday (Boxing D*y).

Mails for Fiji, Pago Pago, Samoa, Fanning Island, Honolulu. Japan, United States of America, Canada, Central America, West Indies, Mexico, States of Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, British, Dutch, and. French. Guiana, United Kingdom and Continent of Europe, close at Auckland, per Niagara, on Tuesday, December 28, at 8 a.m. As correspondence for all neutral countries is subject to censorship, it is urged in order to avoid delays that such correspondence be posted in ample timo for thfl mail, the day previous to its dißpatch if possible.

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

The parcel-post mail per Main Trunk express closes at the G.P.O. at 11.30 a.m., and for the south, per ferry steamer, at 5.45 p.m. On Friday, tho 24th inst., the Carriers' Department (entrance upstairs from Featherston Street) will be open for tho delivery of correspondence addressed to streets in the city and suburbs from 8 to 9 p.m.; also the public counter for the delivery of correspondence addressed to the Post Office will be open from 8 to 9 p.m. The parcels delivery counter will be open from 8 to 9 p.m.

On Saturday, the 25th December (Christ' mas 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 diepatches of correspondence by trains will close on Christmas Day as follow:—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 durinp the day, but thg midnight clearances wiU bo mode as usual on Sunday, the 26th December.

On Monday, the 27th December (Boxing Diiyl. tiie Chief Post Office will be open in all Its branches (except Money-order and Savings Bank) from 9 to 10 a.m. Mails for dispatch by steamers will close at 8 a.m., and the only dispatches of correspondence by trains will close as follow:—For Wairarapa. Hawke's Bay, Jlanawatn, Karigltik«l, Wonganui, 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 suburbs, which will close at tho Chief Post Office at 7 a.m. Thq street receivers will not be cleaml during the day; midnight clearances will be made as usual. A. P. DRYDEN, Chief .'Postmaster. Chief Poet Office, Wellington, December 23, 1915.