MAIL NOTICES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2656, 30 December 1915, Page 8

MAIL NOTICES

Subjccb to necessary alterations, mails will clos6 flt tho Chief Post' Office as under THIS DAY (THURSDAY), DECEMBER . Wangaliui, New Plymouth, also Mane* x wfltu, Kangitikei, and Taranaki districts, » per llanawatu train (Thorudon Station), 7.30 ft.m. 1 Wanganui, also Manawatu and Eangitlkei districts, per Manawatu train (Thorn* don Station), 3.15 p.m. Wairarapa district, per Wairarapa train (Lambton 6.30 a.m. aud 3.30 p.m. Napier and Hawke's Bay district, per . Manawatu train (Thorndon Station), 8.20 i a.m. and 3.15 p.m. Auckland and district, also New Plymouth, Wanganui, and. Napier, per Main Trunk train (Thorndon Station), 12.20 p.m. Palmerston North, Napier. Wanganui, k Auckland, and Auckland district, per second Main Trunk train (Thorndon Btation), 8 p.m. (except Saturdays). Tho best dispatch fpr correspondence addressed to the Unitfld Kingdom and Con* tinent of Europe will be via San Fran- . Cisco, closing at Wellington, per Moan a, on Thursday, January 6, at 1 p.i&. Picton, Jilenhcim, Nelson, Reefton, and • Westport. iper .Mapourika, 11.20 a.m. Pared mail for Australian States and tho East per Ullmaroa, 2.30 p.m. Australian States- (duo Sydney January 3), (Expeditionary Forces, Egypt), per Ulimaroa, 3.30 p.m. ; Ceylon, India, China, Japan, Straits Set- • tlements, Egypt, and South Africa, also Pago Pago and Honolulu, to connect with i> Sierra at Sydney, por TJHmaroa, 3.30 p.m. • (Money-orders must be obtained one bour t bdoro the advertised time of closing the mails.) Napier and Giaborne. per Victoria, 3.20 r P-w. [ Nelson, French Pass, Havelock, Reefton, ; and Westport. per Nikau, 4.20 p.m. # Nelson, Westport, G-reymouth, Hokitika, and Reefton, per Rcgulus, 4.20 p.m. Blenheim and Picton, via Blenheim, per Opawa, 4.20 p.m. Southern offices of Zealand, aJso Westport, Greymouth, Hokitika, and Reefton, per Mararoa, 6.15 p.m. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31. Picton, Blenheim, and Havelock, per Ara. hura-, 11.20 a.m. Nelson, Reefton, and Westport, per Kaltoa, 4.20 p.m. . , Picton, Blenheim, Nelson, French Pass, Reefton, and Westport, per Pateena, 4.20 p.m. ' ' Southern offtccg of New Zealand, per Paloona, 6.15 p.m. _ Southern oiHces of New Zealand; also Westport, Greymouth, Hokitika, and Reefton, per Maori, 6.15 p.m. Southern offices of New Zealand; also Westport, Greymouth, Hokitika, and Reef* ton, per Mararoa, 8 p.m. MONDAY, JANUARY 3. Australian States and South Afrioa, to connect with Riverina. at Auckland, per Main Trunk train, 8 p.m. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5. Paroel mail for South America, United Kingdom, and Continent of Europe, per Rsmuera, 9 a.m. South America, via Monte video, Tene* rifte, United Kingdom, and Continent of Kurope (due London February 16), per Remuera, 10.30 a.m. Correspondence for United Kingdom and Continent of Europe must be -specially addressed per Remuera. REMINDERS. Mails for Australian States.* and South 'Africa, close at Auckland, 1 per Riverina,i on Tuesday, January 4, at 4.15 p.m. Mails for Australian States close at Bluff, per Wimmera-, on Thursday, January 6, at 4 p.m. As correspondence for (ill nciitT.il conn* tries is subject to censorship, it is urged in order to avoid delays that such correspondence be posted in ample time for the mail, the day previous to it's dispatch if possible. , , . ' . AH 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 mails _uy steamers are liable to alteration (earlier or later) at any momont. , The parcel-post mail' per Main Trnnlt express closes at the G.P.O. at 11.30 a.m., and for the south, per ferry steamer, at 5 bate "letters for mails beyond tho Dominion cannot in future be posted on tho steamer, but must be posted in the lateletter posting-box. at the Chief Post Office up to the appointed time shown on the mail notice. ■ , . Parcels for dispatch by steamers ana trains with the exception of the usual • fo»ry steamers for southern offices, close at' the Chief Post Office, Wellington-, one hour before the advertised time of closing of mails. As the last clearance of the city re. oeivcrs is made at 5.45 p.m. on Saturdays, all correspondence for the Sunday - night Auckland express must bo posted at tho Chief Post Office not later than 8 p.m. on Sunday . . On Friday, December 31, too Garners Department (entrance upstairs from Featherston Street) will be open for the dolivery 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 parcclß delivery counter will be open from 0 to 9 p.m. On Saturday, January 1 (New Tear « Dav), tho Postal Department -will be closed in all its branches. Mails for dispatch by steamers will close at 8 p.m. on the previous evening, end tho , only dispatches of correspondence by trains will close on New Year's Day as follow;— For tho Wairarapa, Hawke's Bay, Manawatu, Rangitikci, Wanganul, 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 bo cleared during the day, but the midnight clearances will bo made as usual on Sunday, January S. A. P. DUYDKN, Chief Postmaster. Chief Post Office, Wellington, December 30, 1915.