MAIL NOTICES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2955, 19 December 1916, Page 8

MAIL NOTICES

Subject to necessary alterations, mails will closo at tho Chief Post Office, as under:—

THIS DAY (TUESDAY), DECEMBER 19. Wanganui, New Plymouth, also Monawatu, Rangitikci, and Taranaki districts, per Manawatu train' (Thorndon Station), 7.30 a.m., i ■Wanganui, also Manawatu and Rangitikei district's, per Manawatu train (Thorndon Station), 3.15 p.m. Wairarapa district, per Wairarapa, train (Lambton Station), 6.30 a.m. and 3.30 p.m. Napier and Hawke'sx Bay district, per Manawatu train (Thorndon Station), 8.20 a.m. and 3.15 p.m.Auckland and district, also New Plymouth, Wanganui, and Napier, por Main Trunk train (Thorndon Station), 12.20 P.m. I : . \„ Palmerston North, Napier, Wanganui, Auckland, and Auokla'nd ■ district, per second Main Trunk train (Thorndon Station), 8 p.m. (except Saturdays). Picton, Havelock, Blenheim, and Nelson, also the bays, per Elsio at Havelock, per Pateena. 11.50 a.m. Nelson, Frenoh Pass, and Havelock. per Nikau, 4.20 p.m. , ; ■„■,•, , Southern offices of Now Zealand, also Groymouth, Hokitdka, aud Ecefton, per Mararoa, 6.15 p.m.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20. Picton, Bavelock, Blenheim,' and Nelson, also the undermentioned bays, per oil launch at Picton, per Takapuna, 11.50. a.m. Crail Bay, Homewood, BrighUands.f Hopai, Mahau, Manaroa, MaoTi Bay, Nydia Bay, Pinohia, St. Omer, Tamure, Te E-awa, Tira, Ora, Portage, Wliatanihi, Yncyca. Nelson, Reef ton, • and TVestport, per Kaitoa, 4.20 p.m. Southern offices of Now Zealand, also Greymouth, Hokitika, and Reefton, per Maori, 6.15 p.m. . THTJESDAY, DECEMBER-21. Parcel mail for .Australian States and the East, per ltivorina, 4.30 p.m. Australian States, Pago Pago, and Samoa • (due Sydney December 25), per Kivcrina, 3.30 p.m: • Ceylon, India, Ohina, Japan, Straits Settlements, Egypt, South Africa, also Continent of Europe and United Kingdom, via Suez (duo London January 31), per Bivcrina, 3.30 p.m. Correspondence for United Kingdom and Continent of Europe must be specially addressed. Parcel mails for United Kingdom and Continent of Europe. i United Kingdom and Continent of Europe. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23. Fiji, Samoa, Pago Pago, Honolulu, Banning Island, and Japan, United States of America, Canada, Central America, West Indies, Mexico, States of Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, British, French, and Dutch Guiana, Rio do Janeiro, Monte Video, Buenos Aires, and Valparaiso, via Vancouver, also United Kingdom and Continent of" Europe, per Makura at Auckland (duo London January 25), per Main Trunk, train, 8 p.m. .(Money-orders for Canada and United. States of America must be obtained by noon.) REMINDERS.

Newspaper and parcel mails for Expeditionary Forces will close on. Thursday, December 21, at noon.

Letter mails for Expeditionary Forces will close on Saturday, December 23, at 8 p.m.

The next best dispatch for correspondence addressed to United Kingdom and- Continent of Europe will-be via Vancouver, closing at Wejliasrton, per Main Trunk strain, on Saturday, (December 23, at 8 p.m. . Mails for Australian; States and South Africa close at Auckland,, per Westr'aiia, this day, at 1.45 p.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 timo 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, closo at the Chief Post Office, Wellington, onehour hefore the advertised times of closins: of mails.

On Saturday, December 23, the lettercarriers will make a full afternoon delivery in the Oity and suburbs for which correspondence must bo posted at the Chief Post Office by 1.40 p.m. Correspondence addressed to streets in the Oity and suburbs will bo delivered lettercvrriers' department' (entrance upstairs from Featherston Street at tho Chief Post Office) from 8 to 9 p.m., also tho public delivery counter Trill bo open for delivery of correspondence addressed to tho Chief Post Office from Bto 9 p.m. Tho parcel delivery counter will be opened from 8 to 9 p.m. The mail for America and United Kingdom, via Vancouver, will closo at C p.m. On Monday, December i! 5 (Christmas Day), tho Postal Department will bo closed in all its branches. Mails for dispatch by steamors sailing on ■ Christmas Day will close at 8 p.m.) on tho previous Saturday; also the mail for America and United Kingdom, via Vancouver, will close at 8 p.m. on Saturday. The only dispatches of mails by trains on Christmas Day will close as follows—For Wairarapa, Hawko's Bay, Manawato, Rangitikei,- Wdnganui, -and Taranaki districts at 5.45 a.m.. for Auckland and Auckland district at 8 a.m. Tho Oity and Buburhs receivers will not bo cleared during tho day, but the midnight clearances will be-made as usual. On Tuesday. December 26 (Boxing Day), tho Chief Post Office will bo open in all its branches (except Money-order and Savings Bank) from 9to 10 a.m. Mails for dispatch by steamers will closo at 8 a.m. and tho only dispatch of mails by trains will close as follows:—For Wairarapa, Hawko's Bay, Maiiawatu, Rangitikei. Wangamii, and Taranaki districts at 5.45 a.m., for Auckland and Auckland district at 8 a.m. There will bo one delivery by letter-cariers In tho City and suburbs for which correspondence must bo posted at tho Chief Post Offico by 7 a.m. The street receivers will not bo cleared during the day; midnight clearances will bo made as u S ual. •a_ p - dmdbNi / Chief Postmaster. Chief Post Oillco, 'Wellington, December 19, 1916.