MAIL NOTICES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2653, 27 December 1915, Page 8

MAIL NOTICES

Subject to necessary alterations, mails ■will close at the Chief Post Office ei unfl°r' TUESDAY, DECEMBEE 2J. Wangahud, New Plymouth, also_ Manawfttu. Rangitikei, and Taranaki districts, per Manawatu train (Thorndon Station), 7.30 a.m. Wanganui, also Manawatu and Bangmkei districts, per Manawatu train (Thorn* don Station), 3.15 p.m. ' \ . IVairarapa district, per vrairara-pa tram (Lambton StationN, 6.30 a.m. and 3.30 p.m. Napier and Hawke f s Bay district, per Manawatu train (Thorndon Station), 8.20 a.m. and 3.15 ,p.m. . • Auckland and district, also New r\y~ mouth. W r anganui, and Napier, per Main Trunk train (Thorndon Station), 12.20 p.m. Palmerston North, Napier, Wanganui, AucklaEd, and Auckland district, per second llain Trunk train (Thorndon Station), 8 p.m. (except Saturdays). Ifcsmaaia (due Hobart January 1), per Mokoia, . 10.30 a.m. Picton,' Blenheim, Eavelock,. Nelson, Reeftoll, and .Wc6tporfc, per Mapourika, 11.20 Nelson, French Pass, Havelock, Heefton, and Westport, per Nikau; 4.20 p.m.. Blenheim and .Pictou, via Blenheim, per Wairttu, 4 -20 p.m. , Southern offices of New Zealand, per Ulimaroa, 4.20 p.m. Southern offices of New Zealand, per Westrall*. A.20 p.m. ' ' . ' Southern officcs of New Zealand, also Westport, Grcymouth, Hokitika, and Reoftoii, per Mararoa, 6.15 p.m. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29. Picton, Blenheim, Nelson, Rcefton, and Westport, per Pateena, 11.50 a.m. Nelson, Beefton, and Westport, per Kaito». 4.20 p.m. 1 . . Havelock, Hiltoekoea, Wakatahuri, Buivrer, Pohuenui. Waihohonu, Elaine Bay, Drightlands, Homewood, Mana-roa, Tira<,ra, Nydia Bay, Maori Bay, Te Puru, Okoha/Te Eawa, Port Ligar, per Blenheim, 8 Southern offices of New Zealand, also Westport, Grcymouth, Hokitika, and Secttail. per Maori, 6.15 p.m. THURSDAY, DECEJfBER 30. Parcel mail for Australian States and tho Easl Per Ulimaroa, 2.30 p.m. Australian States (due Sydney January 3), (Expeditionary Forces, Egypt), per Ulimaroa, 3.30 p.m. • o i Ceylon, India, China, Japan, Straits Settlements, Egypt, and South Africa, per Ulimaroa, 3.30 p.m. (Money-orders must bo obtained one ltotii'- before the advertised time of closing the mails.) REMINDERB. Mails for Fiji, Samoa, Honolulu, Japan, United Stales of America, Canada, Central America, West Indies, Mexico, States of Colombia, Ecuador, Vonczueia, British, Dutch, and French Guiana, United. Kingdom and Continent of Europe, close at Auckland, per Niagara, on Tuesday. December 28, at 10 a.m. Mails for Chatham Islands close ftt Lyttelton. per Kiraitangi, c-n Tuesday, December 28, at 11 a.m. The best dispatch for correspondence addressed to the United Kingdom *»,nd Continent of Europe will bo via San Francisco, cluing at Wellington, per Jloana, on •TOuMSdw, January i,.

'As correspondence for all neutral cotuj« tries is subject to censorship, it w urgci in order to avoid delays that Bticn ccrro spondence be posted in ample tirno for tho mail, the day previous to its 'dispatch 11 possible. „ , . m v The advertised times for closing mails by steamers fl-ro liable t-o alteration (earlier or later) at any moment. - The parcel-post mail per Main ituuk express closes at the G.P.O. at 11.30 a.m., and for the south, per ferry steamer, at 545 p m ' • Ixite letters for mails beyond the Dominion cannot in future be posted on the steamer, but must be posted in the 4ateletter posting-box at the Chief Post Office up to the appointed time shown on tno mail notice. j Parcels for dispatch by steamers and trains, with the exception oi the usual ferrv steamers for southern offices, close at tho Chief Post Office, Wellington one hour before tho advertised, times of closing the last clearance of the City receivers is made at 5.45 p.m. on Saturdays all corTefoondenco for the Sunday Auckland express must be posted at the Ohicf Post Office not later than 8 p.m. on SundOri Friday, December 31, the Oarriers'Department (entrance upstairs from Fentherslon Street) will be open for the dolivery of correspondence addressed to streets in tho city and suburbs from 8 to 9 p.m.; also the public counter for the deliver? of correspondence addressed to the Post Ofllce will be open from 8 to 9 p.m. The parcel b delivery counter will bo open frmn 8 to 9 p.m. t On Saturday, January 1 (New lcars Bay) tile Postal Department will bo closed in all its branches. Mails for dispatch by steamers, will close at 8 p.m. on the previous evening, and tho only disHatches of correspondence by trains will close on Now Year's Day as follow :-For the \Yalrarapa, Hawlte's Bay, Maiiawatu, Eaneitikcl Wanganul. and Taranalti 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 will bo made as usual «>n Sunday, January 2. A. P. DRYDEN, Chief Postmaster. December 28, 1915.