MAIL NOTICES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3149, 30 July 1917, Page 8

MAIL NOTICES

Subject to necessary alterations, mails mil close at the Chief Post Offico as under:—

THIS DAY (MONDAY). JULY 30. Wanganui, New Plymouth; also Jianawatu Bangitlkoi. and Taranaki Districts per Manawatu train (Thorndou), 7.30 a.m Wanganui; also Manawatu and Hangitikei Districts, ner Manawatu train (Thorndon), 0.15 p.m.

Wairarapa District, per Wairarapa train (Lambton), 6.30 a.m. and 2 p.m. Napier and Hawko's Bay District, per Manawatu train (Thorndon), 8.20 a.m. and 3.15 p.m. - Auckland and District; also New Plymouth, Wanganui, and Napier,' por Main Trunk train (Thorndon), 11.50 a.m. Grcymouth and Hokitika, per Ngakuta 11 a.m.

Picton. Havclock, Blenheim,. French Pass, and Nelson, also the undermentioned bays, per Elsie at Picton. per Pateena. 11.50 a.m. Brightlands. Bulweiv Crail Bay. Elaine Bay, Ilikockoea. Homewood. Uopai, Yneyca Bay, Manaroa. Mnhau. Alaori Bay. Nydia Bav, Okoha', Poliuenui, Port Ligar, St. Omer, Tamurc, Te Rawa. The Portage. Te Puru. Tim Ora, Waihohonu. Wakatahuri-, Whatahihi. Nanier and Gishorne, 1.20 p.m. Nelson, Reefton, and Wcstport, per Kaitoa, 4.20 p.m.

Blenheim: Havelock. aud Picton, via Blenheim, per Wnirau, 5 p.m. Southern offices of New Zealand, olso Westport, (Jroyinonlh. Hokitika, and Reefton, per Maori, 6.15 p.m.

REMINDERS. Special Notice—Letters tisjtallv superscribed via Suez should now he superscribed "For first dsreet steamer." Mails for United Kingdom, America, and all oversea countries, Including Australia, will he dispatched from time to time hi best rouln without special notification.

Note-On and after Monday. August 6, mails for dispatch, ner Main Trunk train, will close at the Chief Post Office, nl 11.35 a.m.

Mails for Cromarty, Puysegur Point, and Te Oneroa close at Bluff this day, at 6 p.m. Corresppndence for all neutral countries is "illbject to censorship. Parcels for dispatch hy steamers and trains, with Mis exception of the usual ferry steamers for southern offices, cloec at the Chief Post Office. Wellington, one hour before the advertised times of closing of moils. The narcol-post mail nm- Jfain Trunk express clossi at the C.P.O. at 11 a.m., and" for the sojith, per ferry steamer at 5.45 p.m. All the principal moils by train and steamer cloFe at Te Aro n.nd OourtcnajPlace Post Office at the same hours as at t';o Chief Post Office, with the exception that there is no late-fee clearance, and that mails bv the steamers for southern offices close at. 5.45 p.m. A. P. DBTDEN, Chief Postmaster. Chief Post Office, Wellington, July 30, 1917.

Years of patient endeavour by the Victorian farmer have resulted in the production of a sort of super-onion, which is making the'name of the. State famous abroad (says the Melbourne "Age"). A feature of a. debate on supply in the Victorian Legislative Assembly was praise showered on the Victorian' onion. Mr. Elmslie informed the House that in America there was a- great demand for these onions at £70 per ton. ■A. trader, had fold him that he would take hundreds of loads of Australian onions if lie could pet them, and he was coming to Australia to see if he could secure supplies. The Department of Agriculture, " Mr. Elmslie urged, should endeavour to develop this trade, and it would he necessary to eliminate the "multitude of middlemen." as growers received .£3 tcr £b per ton for onions when thev brought .£7O per ton in America. The" Minister of Lands stated that A'ictorian onions liad made a reputation throughout, the world, and he explained that tho outbreak of war had interfered with a scheme to send direct shipments of onions and apples to America without; transhipment at. Sydney. Mr. Bailey added expert, testimony to the value of,the Victorian Spanish onion, which, lie said, had been raised to its state of perfection by a, lone; course of cultivation.