MAIL NOTICES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2962, 28 December 1916, Page 8

MAIL NOTICES

Subject to necessary alterations, mails will close ot the Chief Post Office, as under:— THIS DAY (THURSDAY), DECEMBER. 28. Waiiganui. New Plymouth, ulso Manawatu. li-angitikci, and Tarauaki districts, per Manavau train (Thorndon Station), 7.30 a.m. Wanganui, also Manawatu- and Eangitikci districts, 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 Hawkc's Bay district, nor Manawatu train (Thorndon Station), 8.20 a.m. and 3.15 p.m. . Auckland and dietriot, also New Plymouth, Wanganui, and Napier, iper 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 p.m. (except Saturdays). Picton, Havelock, Blenheim, and Nelson, per . Takapuna, 1i.50 a.m. Westport, per Awahou. 1.20 p.m/ Parcel mail for Australian States and tho East, per Manuka, 2.30 p.m. Australian States, Fiji, and Samoa (duo Sydney January 1), per Manuka, 3.30 p.m. Oeylon, India, China, Japan, Straits Settlements,' Egypt, and South Africa, per Manuka, 3.30 p.m. Nelson, French Pass, and Havelock, per Nikau, 4.20 p.m. Southern offices of Uew Zealand, per Mnraroa, 6.15 p.m. Parcel molls for United Kingdom and Continent of Europe. United Kingdom and Continent of Europe. FRIDAY, DECEHBEOt 29. Picton, Havelock, Blenheim, French Pass, and Nelson, per Pateona, 11.50 a.m. Nelson, Reefton. and Westport. per Kaitoa, 4.20 p.m. Southern offices of New Zealand, also Westport, Greymouth, Hokitika, and Reefton. 'per Maori, 6.15 p.m. SATURDAY, DECEMBER. 30. Picton, Havelock, Blenheim, and Nelson, per Takapuna, 1.20 p.m. Nelson, French Pass, and Havelock, per Nikau, 1.20 p.m. Southern offices of New Zealand, per Monowaa, 4.20 p.m. Southern offices of New Zealand, also Westport, Greymouth. Hokitika, and Reefton, per Jlararoa, 6.15 p.m. ■ REMINDERS. ' Newspapers and parcel mails for Expeditionary Forcos will close this day, at noon. Letter mails for Expeditionary Forces will close on Wednesday, January 3, at 8 p.m. Tho next best dispatch for correspondence addressed to United Kingdom and Continent of Europe will he yia San Francisco, closing at Wellington, per HaiUii on Thursday. January 4. at 1 p.m. As correspondence for all neutral conntries 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, clq6o at tho Chief Post Office, Wellington, ono hour before the advertised times of closing of moils. 1 The paicel-post mail per Main Trunk oxpress closes at the C.1'.0. at 11.30 a.m., and for tho south per ferry steamer at S 45 p.a.. late letters for mails beyond tho Dominion oannot in /future be posted on the steamer, but must bo posted in the Jatoletter posting-box at the Chief Post Offlco up to the appointed time shown op the mail notice. ■ ■ Unless otherwise specified, registered letters and parcels-post packages must bo handed in and money-orders obtained: one hour before the ordinary mail closes. On Saturday, December 30, tho let-ter-carriers will make a full- afternoon delivery in the City and suburbs for whioh correspondence must be posted' at the Chief Post Office by 1.40 p.m. Correspondence addressed to streets in tho City and suburbs will be delivered from the lettercarriers' department (entrance upstairs from Featherston Street at the Chief Post Office) from 8 to 9 p.m., also the publio delivery counter will be open for delivery of correspondence addressed to tho Chief Post' Office from tto 9 p.m. The parcel delivery counter will be opened from 8 to 9 p.m. On Monday, January 1 (New Year's Day), the Postal Department will be closed in nil its branches. Mails for dispatch by steainert sailing on Now I'eaT's Day will close at 8 p.m. on tho previous Saturday. The only dispatches of mails by trains on New Year'B Day will closo as follows:—For . Wairarapa, Hawke's Bay, Manawatu, Eongitikei,. Wanganui. and Taranaki districts at 5.45 a.m., for Auckland and Auckland district at 8 a.m. The City and suburbs Tecoivcrs will not bo cleared during tho day. but the midnight clearances will bo made as usual. A. P. DRY DEN, Chief Postmaster. Chief Post Office, Wellington, Decomber 28, 1916.