MAIL NOTICES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2860, 26 August 1916, Page 12

MAIL NOTICES

Subject to'. necessary alterations, maila will clOße at the Chief Post Office, as un. dor :— THIS DAY (SATURDAY). AUGUST 25. Wanganui, New Plymouth, also I>anawutu. Rangitikei, and Tarannki districts, nor Manawatu train (Thorndon Station), 7.30 a.m. Wanganui, also Manawatu and Rangitl. kel districts, per Manawatu train (Thorndon Station), 3.15 p.m. Wairarapa district, per Wairnrapa train (Lambton Station). 6.30 a.m. and 3.30 p.m. Napier and Hawko's Bay district, per Manawatu train. (Thorndon Station), 8.20 a.m. and 3.15 p.m. Auckland omd 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 second Main Trunk train (Thorndon Station). 8 u.m. lexcept Saturdays). Greymouth, Hokitika, and Reefton, per Kokiri, 11 a.m. ' Dunedin and Invercargill, per Itararoa. 11.20 a.m. Nolßon, French Pass . Haveloek, and Blenheim, per Nikau, 1.20 p.m. Blenheim. Haveloek, and Picton, Tia Blenheim, per Wairau, 5 p.m. Southern offices of New Zealand, per Patcena, 7.45 p.m. SUNDAY, AUGUST 27. Australian States and South Africa, per Victoria at Auckland (due Sydney Scptember 1). per Main Trunk train, 8 p.m. MONDAY, AUGUST 28. Picton, Haveloek, Blenheim, French Pass, and Nelson, also the undermentioned Bays (to connect with Elsio at Picton), Buhver, Crail Bay, Elaine Bay, Hikoekoea, Homewood, Hopai, Yncyca Bay, Manaroa. Mahau, Maori Bay. Nydia Bay, Okoha, Pinohia, Pohucnui, Port Ligar, St. Omcr, Tamaro, To Rawa, The Portage, To Puru, 'I'ira Ora, Waihobonu, Wakatahuri, Whatahihi, per Takapuna, 11.50 a.m. Rarotongo, and Tahiti, per Flora, at Auckland, per Main Trunk trait, 12.20 p.m. Kaikoura, per Wakatu, 4.20 p.m. Southern Offices of New Zealand, also Greymouth. Hokitika, and Reefton, per Maori, 6.15 p.m. THURSDAY, AUGUST 31. Parcel mail for Australian States and the East, per Mocraki, 2.30- p.m. Australian States (due Sydney September 4), por Mocraki, 3.30 p.m. Ceylon, India. China. Japan, Straits Settlements, Egypt, South Africa, also Con. tincnt of Europo and United Kingdom (due London October 11), per Mocraki, 3.30 p.m. (Correspondence for United Kingdom and Continent of Europe must, bo specially addressed.) REMINDERS. hotter mails for Expeditionary Forces will close on Saturday, September 2, at 8 p.m. The next best dispatch for correspond, enco addressed to United Kingdom and Continent of Europe will bo . via Vancouver, closing at Wellington, per Main Trunk train on Monday, September 4, at 12.20 p.m. Mails for Fiji dose at Auckland, per Whangape, this day, at 2.45 p.m.

Mails for Australian Stales and South .Africa close at Aucldand, per Victoria on Monday, August 28, at'4.ls p.m. Mails for Itarotonga. and Tahiti closa at Auckland, per Flora, on Tuesday, August 19, at 8.45 a.m. Mails for Chatham Islands closo at Lyttclton, per Hiraitangi, oil Friday, Soptember 1, at 11 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 i steamers and trains, with the exception 1 of the usual ferry 6teamers for Southern offices, closo at the Chief Post Office, Wellington, one hour before the advertised times of closing of mails. Unless otherwise specified, registered letters and parcels-post packages must be handed in and money-orders obtained, ono hour before the ordinary mail closes. All books and sample-packets and newspapers for places within the Dominion must be posted half an hour before the ordinary letter mail close 1 !. .?l.e parcel-post mail per Main Trunk express closes at the G.F.O. at 11.30 a.m., and for the *South per ferry steamer at 5.45 p.m. The advertised time for closing mails by steamers are liable to alteration (earlier or later) at any moment. As the last clearance or this City receivers is made at 5.45 p.m. on Saturdays, all correspondence for the Sunday night Auckland express must be posted at the Chief Post Office not later than 8 p.m. on Suudny. A. «. DRTDra.' Chief Postmaster. Chief Post Offic". \VoUington, August 26, 1916.