MAIL NOTICES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2884, 23 September 1916, Page 12

MAIL NOTICES

Subject to necessary alterations, mails will close at the Ohicf Post Office as under:— IOIIS DAT (SATURDAY), SEPTEMBER 23. Wanganui, New Plymouth, also Manor ■wain, BoniJUnkei/ Mid. Olaranaki districts, per Manawatu train (Thorndon Station), 7.30 a.m. • Wanganui, also Manawatu and Itamgltikei districts, por Manawatu train (Thorndon Station), 3.15 p.m. Wairarapa district, per Wairarapa fjaln (Lamb-ten Station), 6.30 a.m. and 3.30 p.m. Napier and Bawkc's Bay district, per Manawatu train (Thorndon Station), 8.20 a.m. and 3.15 p.m. Auckland and district, also Now Plymouth, Wanganui, and Napier, per Main Trunk train (Thorndon Station), 12.20 p.m. Palmcrston North, Napior, Wonsanui, Auckland, and Auckland district, per second Main Trunk train (Thorndon Station), 8 p.m. (except Saturdays). Westport and Recfton, per Wanaka, 11 a.m. \ Nelson, French Pass, Havelock, and Blenheim, per Nikau, 4.20 p.m. • Blenheim, Havelock, > and Picton, via , Blenheim, per Opawa, 5 p.m. Southern offices of Now Zealand, pet Pateena, 6.15 p.m. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24. . Australian States and South Africa-, per Victoria, at Auckland (duo Sydney September 29), per Main Trunk train, 8 p.m. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25. Picton, HaTelock, Blenheim, French Pass, and Nelson, also the undermentioned baye, pea- s.s. Elsie, at Picton, per Itakapuna, 11.50 a.m. Bulwer, Crail Bay, Elaine > Bay, Hikoekoea, Homewood, Hopai, Yncyca Bay, Jlonaroa, Mahau, Maori Bay, Nydia Bay, Okoha, Pinohia, Pohuenui, Port Hear, St. Omcr, Tamure, Te Hawa. The Portage, Te Puru, Tira Ora,' Waihohonu, Wakatahuri, Whatahihi. Itarotouga and Tahiti, per Flora, at Auckland, per Main Trunk train, 12.20 p.m. Australian States (excepting New South Wales and Queensland), South. Africa (due Melbourno September 30), per Paloona, 3.30 p.m. Parcel mails close at 2.30 p.m. Nelson, Recfton, and Westport, per Kaitoa, 4.20 p.m. • Southern offices of New Zealand, per Maxaroa, 6.15 p.m. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27. Parcel malls for United Kingdom and Continent .of Europe. • United Kingdom and Continent of Europe. ■ ' THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28. Parcel mail for Australian States and the East, per Rrrerina, 2.30 p.m. Australian States, Pago Page, and Samoa (duo Sydney Oeteber_2), per Rivcrjna, 3.30 p.m. Ceylon, India, China, Japan, Straits Settlements, Egypt,, South Africa, al6o Continent of Europe and United Kingdom via Suez (duo London November 8), per RiTerina, 3.'30 p.m. Correspondence for United Kingdom and Continent of Europo must be specially, addressed. WEHINDEHS. Letter mails for Expeditionary Foreej will close on Saturday, September 30, at 8 p.m. i . Newspaper and parcel mails lor Expeditionary Forces will close on Wednesday, September 27, at noon. The next host dispatch for correspond. enco 'addressed to United Kingdom and Continent of. Europo will be via Yen. couver, dosing at Wellington.' per Main Trunk train, on Monday, October 2, at 12.20 p.m. Mails for Australian States and South, Africa close at Auckland, per. Yictoria, on Monday, September 25, at 4.16 p.m. Mails for Rarotonga and Tahiti at Auckland, per Flora, on Tuesday, September, 26 «,t 8.46 ajn. As correspondence for all neutral coun. tries is sußJeot to censorship, .it is urged in order to avoid delays that such correspondence bo 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, oloso at the Chief Post Office, Wellington, one hour before the advertised times of closing of malls. Tho parcel-post mail, per Main Trunk er. press, closes dt the 0.P.0. at 11.30 a.m. and for the south per ferry, steamer ai 5.45 p.m. Late letters for mailj beyond tho Dominion cannot In future bo posted on the steamer, but must be posted in the lateletter posting-box at tho Chief'Poßt Office up to the appointed time shown 'on the mail notice. Unless othorwißo-specified, registered letters nnd parcels-post packages mu*t be handed In and money-orders obtained ono hour before the ordinary mall oloses. All.books and sample-packets' and newspapers for places within tho Dominion must bo posted half • an hour before the ordinary, letter-mail .closes.- .-,:,.. .... The advertised timo for closing mails by steamers is, liablo to alteration ' (earlier or later) at any moment. As tho last clearance of the city receivers is mado at 6.45 p.m. on Saturdays, ail correspondence for tho Sunday night Auokland express must bo posted at tho Chief Post Office not later than 8 p.m.von Sunday. A. V. DRYDEN, Chief Postmaster . Chief Post Office. Wellington, September 23, 1516. '