MAIL NOTICES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2664, 8 January 1916, Page 8

MAIL NOTICES

Subject to neoessary alterations, mails will closo at the Chief Post Office as under THIS DAY (SATURDAY), JANUARY 8. Wanganui, New Plymouth, also Ma.nowatu, Rangitikci, and Taranaki districts, per Manavratu train (Thorndon Station), 7.30 a.m. ■ Wanganui, also Uanawatu and Rangitikei districts, per Manawatu. train (Thorndon Station), 3.15 p.m. Wairarapa district, per Waira-rapa train ILambton Station), 6.30 a.m. and 3.30 p.m. Napier and Hawke's Bay district, I per llanaxvatu train (Thorndon Station), 8.20 a.m. and ■ 3.15 p.m. Auckland and district, also New Plymouth, Wanganui, and Napier, per Main Trunk train (Tliorndoa Station), 12.20 p.m. Palmerston North, Napier, Wanganui, Auckland, and Auckland district, per second Mail: Trunk train (Thorndon Station), H p.m. (except Saturdays). Greymouth, Hokitika, and Reefton, per Ngahere, 10 a.m. Now Plymouth, per Karu, 11 a.m. Picton. Blenheim, and Havelock, ner Aroihura, 11.20 a.m. Tonga, Samoa, and Fiji (to connect with Talune at Auckland), per Main Trunk train. 12.20 p.m. Nelson, French Pass, and Havelock, pet Nikau, 4.20 p.m. , Southern offices of New Zealand, also Westport, Greymouth, Hokitika, and Reefton, per Mararoa, 7.45 p.m. Bleulieim and Picton, via. Blenheim, per Opawa. 7.45 p.m. SUNDAY, JANUARY 9. Australian States and South Africa, to connect with Makura at Aucklaml, per Main Trunk train, 8 p.m. MONDAY. JANUARY 10. Picton, Blenheim, Nelson, Westport,' Greymouth, Hokitika, and Reefton, also the undermentioned bays, by oil launch-from Picton, via Torea. Ncck, per Arohura, 11.60 а.m. Crail Bay, Homewood, Hopai, Mahau, Ifanaroa; Maori Bay, Nydia Bay, Pinohia, St. Omer, Tamiire, To Raw, Tira On, Portage, VThatanihi, Yncyca. Napier and Gisborne, per Monowai, 4.20 p.m. Nelson, Reefton, and Wcstport, per lialtoa, 4.20 j).m. Southern. offices of New Zealand, Greymouth, and Hokitika, also Chatham Islands (to connect with Himitangi at Lyttolton), per Maori, 6.15 p.m. Nelson, French Pass, Reefton, and Westport, per Pateena, 7.45 p.m. TUESDAY, JANUARY 11. Parcel mail for South America, United Kingdom, and Continent of Europe, par Athenic, 9 a.m. South America, via Monte Video, Teneriffc, also United Kingdom and Continent of Europe (due London February 22), per Athenic, 10.30 a.m. (Correspondence for United Kingdom and Continent of Europe must bo specially addressed per Athenic.) THURSDAY, JANUARY 13. Parcel mail for Australian States and tho East, per Manuka, 2.30 p.m Australian States idue Sydney January 17), (Expeditionary Forces, Egypt), per Manuka, 3.30 p.m. Ceylon, India, China, Japan, Straits Settlements, Egypt, South Africa, and Continent of Europe and United Kingdom, via Suez (duo London February 23), per Mianulta, 3.30 p.m. Money-orders must be obtained one hour before the advertised time of closing the mails.. (Correspondencefor' United Kingdom and Continent of Europe must bo specially addressed.) . . REMINDERS, Malls for-Tonga, Samoa, and Fiji closo at Auckland, per Talune, on Monday, January. 10, at 8.45 a.m. Mails for Australian States and South Africa close at Auckland, per Makura, oil Monday, January 10, 7.45 p.m. Mails for Chatham Islands close at Lyttclto'n, per Himitangi, on Tuesday, January 11, at 11.30 a.m. ' Mails for Rarotonga' and Tahiti, closo at Auckland, per Flora, on Tuesday, January 18, at 8.45 a.m. Tho next best dispatch for correspondence addressed to the United Kingdom and Continent of Europe will be via Vancouver, closing at Wellington, per Main Trunk train, on Monday, January 24, at 12.20 p.m. As correspondence for all neutral" countries is subject to censorship it is urged In order to avoid delays that such corrotpondence be postod in ample tlmo for the mail, the day previous to its dispatch if possible. The advortised time for closing mails by . steamer? is liable to alteration (earltor or later) at any moment.. The parcel-post ma.il per Main Trunk express oloses at the C.P.O. at 11.30 a.m., and for tho. south, ®er ferry steamer, at б.45 p.m. Late letters for mails beyond tho Dominion cannot in future be posted on the steamerß.. but must be posted in the leteletter posting-box at tho Chief Post Office up tu tho appointed time shown on tha mail notice. Parcels for dispatch by steamers and trains with the exception of the usual ferry steamers for offices, close at the Chief Post Office, Wellington, ono hour before the advortised time of closing of mails. As the last clearance of tho city receivers is made at 5.45 p.m. oh Saturdays, all correspondence for the Sunday night Auckland express must be posted at the Chief Post Office not later than 8 p.m. cn Sunday. . All books and sample-packets and newspapeiie for places within the Dominion must bo postod half 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 the ordinary mail closes. The .public are earnestly requested to register all letters containing money- or valuables intended to be sent by post. All tho principal mails by train and steamer close at Te Aro and Oourtcnay Place Post Office at the same hours as at the Chief Post Office, with the exception that there is is no late fee clearance, and that mails by the ferry steamers for southern offices close at 5.45 p.m. Mails 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. January 8, 1916. -