MAIL NOTICES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2725, 21 March 1916, Page 8

MAIL NOTICES

Subject to necessary alterations, mails will close at the' Chief Poet Office as under:—

I THIS DAY (TUESDAY), MARCH 21. ' W&Bsanui, New .Plymouth, also watu, Rangitikei, and Tar&niki districts, per jranawatu train (Thorndon Station), 7,30 a.m. v Wanganui, also Mana.vratu end Rfl-ngi-tikci districts, per. Mamnvatu train (Thorndon Station), 3.15 p.zri. Wairarapa district, per Wairarapa train (Lambton Station), 6.30 a.m. <ind 3.30 p.m.

Napier 'and Hawke'e Bay district, per Jlana-watu train (Thorndon Station), 8.20 a.m. and. 3.15 p.m.

Auckland and district, also Hew Plymouth, Wanganui, end Napier; per Main Trunk train (Thorndon Station), 12.20 p.m.

• Palmerston North, Napier, Wanganui, Auckland, and Auckland/district, per second Main Trunk> train (Thorndon Station), # p.m. (except Saturdays). "Westport, per Kittawa, 11 a.m.

Picton, Blenheim, . Havelock, Nelson, Westport, Greymouthj Hokitika, and.Keefton, per Mapourika. 11.20 a.m. *

Chatham Islands, per Himitansi. 4 p.m. Napier and Gisborne,, per lionowai, 4.20 p.m. ' \ NeUon, French Pass, Havolock, Rcefton, find Westport, per Nikau,. 4.20 p.m. Southern offices of New Zealand, per ltiverina, 4.20' p.m.

Greymouth, Hokitika, and Beefton, per Ngaknta, 4.20 p.rn Southern offices of New Zealand, aUo Greymouth and Hokitika, per Mararoa, 6.15 p.m. . 1 South America, articles by Parcel Post, also newspapers for United Kingdom -find Continent of Europe. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 'a. ,Picton, Havelock, Blenheim, Nelson, Keefton, and Westport, per Pateena, 11.50 a.m. Mson, Reofton, and Westport, per Kaitoa, 4.20 p.m. Havelock, Hikoekoea, Wakatahuri, BuiVrer, Polmenui, Waihohonu, Elaine Bay, Brightlands, Homewood, Manaroa, TiraWfl, . Nydia' Bay, Maori. Bay,. Te Puru, Okoha, To Raiva, Port Ligar, per Blenheim, 6 p.m. - Southern offices of New Zealand, also Ureymouth and Eokitilui, per Maori, 6.15 ' m ' THURSDAY, MARCH 22. I'arcel mail for Australian States and; the Hast, per Riverina, 2.30 p.m. Australian States, Fiji, Samoa, Pago Pago, Honolulu (due Sydney Maroh 27), (Expeditionary Forces, Egypt), per, JRirerina, 3.30 p.m. I Ceylon, India, China, Japan, Straits, Settlements, Egypt, and Bouth Afrioa, per Riverina, 3.30 p.m. Money-orders' mast be ; obtained one hour -before the advertised timo of closing the malls. ''" ~ REMINDERS. Mails for Cromarty, Puysegur Point, Te Qncroa, and West Coast Sounds and'Bay6 close at Bluff, per Hinemoa, this day at 10.30 a.m. ' as correspondence for all neutral countries 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 its dispatch if possible. .. Parcels for dispatch by steamers and trains, with the exception of the usual ferry steamers for southern offices, close at the Ohief Post Office, Wellington, one hour before the advertised times of olosing of mails. The parcel post mail per Main Trunk express closes at the C.P.O. at 11.30 a.m., and for the south per Ferry steamer at 6.45 p.m. ' ' late letters for mails beyond the Dominion cannot in future bo posted on the steamer, but must be posted in the lateletter posting-box at the Chief Post Office up to the appointed time shown on tho wail notice.

The advertised times for closing mails by steamers are liable to alteration (earlier or later) at any moment.

As the last clearance of the City receivers is flia'de at 5.45 p.m. on Saturdays, all correspondence for the Sunday night Auckland express must bo posted at the Chief Post Offico not later than 8 p.m. on Sunday. , All books and sample-packets and newspapers for places within tho. Dominion must be posted 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 ell letters containing money or valuables, intended to be sent by- post." All the principal mails by train and □learner close at Te Aro and Courtenay Place Post Officce ct the fume hoiirs as at the Chief Post Office, with the exception that there 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 eecond 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, 1 , Maroh 21, 1916.