MAIL NOTICES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2655, 29 December 1915, Page 8

MAIL NOTICES

' :—-a- ■ Subject to necessary alterations, mails "will close fit the .Chief Post Office as an* flcr*:— THIS DAT (WEDNESDAY), DECEMBER 29. Wangafcu-i, New Plymouth, also Mane,watu, Raugitikei, and Taranaki districts, per Manawatu train (Thorndon Station), 7.30 a.m. Wanganui, also Manawatu and Ran&itlkci districts, per Manawatu train (Thorndon Station), 3.15 p.m. Wairarapa district, per Wairarapa train (Lambton 6.30 a.m. aiid 3.30 p.m. Napier and Hawke's Bay district, per Manawatu train (Tliorndon Station), 8.20 a.m. and 3.15 p.m. Auckland and district, also New Plymouth, Wanganui, and Napier, per Maiu Trunk train (Thorndon Station), 12.20 p.m. Palroerston North, Napier, Wanganui, Auckland, end Auckland district, per second Main Trunk train (Thorndon Station), 8 p.m. • (except Saturdays). The best dispatch for correspondence addressed to the United Kingdom and Continent of -Europe will be via Sail Francisco, closing at Wellington, per Moana, on Thursday, January 6, at 1 p.m. Westport. per Ratainoa, 11 a.m. Picton, Blenheim, Nelson, Reefton, and Westport, per Pateena, 11.50 a.m. Nelson, Reefton, and Westport, per Kaitoa. 4.20 u.m ' Havelock, Hikoekoea, Wakataliuri, Buiwer, Pohuenui, W&ihohonu, Elaine Bay, Brightlands, Homewood," Manaroa, Ti raft ra., Nydia Bay, jftaori Bay, To Puru, Okoha, Te Rawa, Port Ligar, per Blenheim, 6 p.m. ' Southern offices of New* Zealand, also Westport, Greymouth, Hokitika, and Reefton,'per Maori, 6.15 p.m. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30. Picton* Blenheim. Nelson, Reefton, and "Westport. iper Mapourika, 11.20 a.m. "Parcel mail for Australian States and tho East per TJUmaroa, 2.30 p.m. Australian States (duo Sydney January 3), (Expeditionary Forces, Egypt), per Uhmaroa, 3.30 p.m. Ceylon, India, China, Japan, Straits Settlements, Egypt, and South Africa, also Pago Pago and Honolulu, to connect with Sierra at Sydney, per Ulimaroa, 3.30 p.m. (Monoy-orders must be obtained ono hour bciorc the advertised timo of closing the moils.) Napier and Gisbornc, per Victoria, 3.20 p.m. Nelson, French Pass, Havelock, Reefton, and Westport, per Nikau, 4.20 p.m. Southern offices of New Zealand,, also Westport, Greymouth, Hokitik>a, and Reefton, per Mararoa, 6.15 p.m. REMINDERS. Mails for Australian States and South Africa, close at Auckland, per Rivcrina, on Tuesday, January 4, -at 4.15 p.m. As correspondence for all neutral countries is Bubject to censorship, it is .urged in order to avoid dclay9 that such correspondence be posted in ample timo for the mail, tho day previous to its dispatch if possible. AU books and sample-packets and newspapers for places within the Dominion must be posted half an hour before the ordinary letter-mail closes. The advertised times for closing mail* by steamevs arc liable to alteration (earlier or later) at any moment. The parcel-post mail per Main Trunk exprCv's closes at the 0.P.0. at 11.30 a.m., and for the aoutli, per ferry steamer, at 5.45 p.m. , „ On Friday, December 31, the Carriers' Department (entrance upstairs from Fcatherston Street) will be open for the delivery of correspondence addressed to streets in tho city and suburbs from 8 to 9 p.m.; also the public counter for the delivery of correspondent 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, January 1 (New 1 car 3 Day), tho Postal Department will bo, closed in all its branches. Moils for dispatch by steamers will close at 8 p.m. on the previous evening, and tho only dtepatches of correspondence by trains will close on New Year' 6 Day as follow For the Wairarapa, Hawke's Bay. Manawatu, Ranffitikci, Wanganui, «-nd Taranaki districts at 545 n.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, clc* mnees will | he made as usual on 2. , OKUff SWUttttSlUfi 1 72««ab?r_ 29i Ww* • • J