MAIL NOTICES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2705, 26 February 1916, Page 8

MAIL NOTICES

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

THIS DAY ('SATURDAY), FEBRUARY 26. Wanganui, New Plymouth, also Mana* wato, Itangitikci, and Taranaki districts, per Manawatu train (l'horndon Station), 7.30 a.m.

Wo.ngS.nui, also Manawatu and Bangitlkci districts, per Manawatu train (Thorn, don Station), 3.15 p.m.

Wairarapa district, per Wairarapa train Hamilton Station), 6.30 a.m. and 3.30 p.m. Napier and Hawke's Bay district, per Manawatu train (Tflorndon Station), 8.20 a.m. and 3.15 p.m. Auckland and district, also New Ply. mouth, Wanganui, and Napier, per Main Trunk train (Thorndon Station), 12.20 p.m. Palmerston North, Napier, Wanganui, Auckland, and Auckland district, per eoc. ond Main Trunk train (Tliorudon Station), 8 p.m. (except Saturdays). Australian States (excepting New South Wales and Queensland), South Africa (due Melbourne March 2), per Paloona, 10.30 a.m. Greymouth, HokitiKa, and Reefton, also Westport, via Greymouth, per Ngakuta, 4 p.m. Blenheim, Havelock, and Picton, via Blen. heim, per Opawa, 4.20 p.m. Nelson, French Pass, fiavolook, Blenheim, Reefton, and Weslport, per Nikau, 7.45 p.m. Southern offices of New Zealand, also Greymouth and Hokitika, per Mararoa, 1.45 p.m. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1 27. Australian States end South Africa (to connect with Westraiia at Auckland), per Main Trunk train, 8 p.m. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28. Picton, Blenheim, Havclook, French' Pass, Nelson, Reefton, and Westport, also the undermentioned bays (to connect with s.s. CT6ie and oil-launch at Picton), per Pateena, 11.50 a.m. (Brlghtlands, Bulwer, Crail Bay, Elaine Bay, Hikoekoea, Homejvood,, Hopai, Yncyca Bay, Manaroa, Mahau, Maori Bay, Nydia Bay, Okoha, Pinohla, Pohuenui, Port Ligar, St. Omer, Tamure, To Rawa, The Portage, Te Puru, Tira Ora, Waihohonu, Wakatahuri, Whatahihi.) ' Southern offices of New Zealand, per Riverina, 4.20 p.m. Nelson, Reefton, and Westport, per Kaitoa, 4.20 p.m. Southern offices of 'New Zealand, also Greymouth, Hokitika, Westport, and Reefton, per Maori, 6.16 p.m. South America, articles by, parcel-post also newspapors for HJnited Kingdom and Continent of Europe. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1. Rarotonga, Tahiti, Penrhyn Islands, United States of America, Canada, Central America, West Indies, Mexico, States of Colombia, Ecuador. Venezuela, British, French, and Dutch Guiana, also United Kingdom and Continent, of Europe. ' THURSDAY, MARCH 2. Parcel mall for Australian States and the East, per Riverina, 2.30 p.m. Australian States, al6o Pago Pago and Honolulu (to connect with Sierra at Sydney (duo Sydney March 6), (Expeditionary Forces, Egypt), per Riverina, 3.30 p.m. Ceylon. India. China. Japan, Straits Settlements, Egypt, South Africa, al6o Continent of Europe and United Kingdom, via Suez (due London April 12), per Riverina, 3.30 p.m. Money-orders must bo obtained one hour before the advertised time of '•'osinc tho mails (Correspondence for Tilted Kingdom and Continent of Europe must be specially addressed.) Chatham Islands, per Himitangi, 4.20 p.m. . REMINDERS. Mails for Australian States and South Africa clogo at Auckland, per Westraiia, on Monday,' February 28, at 4.15. p.m. As correspondence for all neutral countries 1® subject to censorsuip « id urg«d, in order to avoid delays, that suoh corres* p.jndenco bo ported iiJ ample time for tho mail, the day previous to its dispatch If pos&iblo. Parcels for dispatch by steamers ana trains, with the exception of the "usual Ferry steamers for southern offices, close at the Chief Post Office, Wellington, one hour before the advertised times of closing of mails. The Parcel Post mail per Main Trunk express eloscs at the 0.P.0. at 11.30 a.m., and (or the couth per Perry steamer at 5.45 p.m. Late letters for mails beyond the dominion cannot in future be posted on the steamer, but must be posted in the lateletter posting-box at the Chief Post Ofitae up to tlio Appointed Urn© shown on the mn.il notice. The advertised time for closing mails I»y steamers arc liable to alteration (earlier or later) at any moment .As the last clearance of the oitv receivers is made at 5.45 p.m. on Saturdays, all correspondence for the Sunday niffht Auckland express must be uoßtcd «tt Mio Chief Post Office not later than 8 p.m. on Sundays. books and sample packets and newspapers for places witlun the Dominion must he posted half on hour before tho or<7liKiry letter-mail, doses. A. P. DKTDEN, Ohiof Postmaster. February 36, 1916.