MAIL SERVICES

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 233, 21 December 1927, Page 2

MAIL SERVICES

this day Wellington. Wanganui. Palmerston North, Hastings and Napier (.letters Southern Offices of New Zealand (also Gisborne and Tokomaru Ba>), o.JU p.m. Great Barrier, 7.40 p.m.

Christmas and New , Year Holidays, 1927228 POSTAL BRANCH Saturday, December 24 and over-counter delivery of tv. on letters (registered as well as ordinary) will be made from the Postmen s Branch, first lloor, between 7 and S p.m- On both days a special clearance of all street "receivers” will be made at G pm.; the midnight clearances •will not be made. On December 14 a morning and an afternoon delivery will be made by postmen. Sunday, December 25 (Christmas Day). at 5 p.m. and 5.30 p.m., respectively. The midnight clearance of street "receivers” will not be made. Monday, December 26 (for Christmas Day) and January 2 (for New Tear s Day), and Tuesday, December 27 (for Boxing Day).—Will be observed as close holidays. A midnight clearance of street "receivers” will be made. On the 26th instant, mails for Southern Offices will close at a p.m. and 5.30 p.m. respectively. There will be no delivery by postmen. Tuesday, December 27 (for Boxing Day) and Monday, January 2 (for New Tear's Dfcry).—All mails will close at 4 a.m., with the exception that those for Southern Offices will close at 5 p.m. and 5.30 p.m. respectively. Only parcels on which the "Express Transit” fee has been paid will be dispatched. There will be no delivery by postmen. Sunday, January 1-—Mails for Southern Offices will close at 5 p.m. and 0.30 pm. respectively. A midnight clearance of all street ‘-receivers’* will be made as usual. Late fee letters for Southern Offices may be posted in the box at the entrance to the Railway Station platform, up to 10 minutes before the advertised times of departure of the expresses. TELEGRAPH BRANCH Sunday, December 25. —10 a.m. to 10.30 a.m. and 5 p.m. to 5.30 p.m. Monday, December 26. —10 a.m. to 10.30 a.m. and 7 p.m. to 10.0 p.m. Tuesday, December 27.—9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. to midnight. Saturday, December 31. —S- a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday, January 2. —9 a.m. to - p.m. and 7 p.m. to midnight. OUTGOING OVERSEAS MAILS Great Britain, Ireland and Continent of Europe, Pitcairn Island, Central America, Cristobal (Panama Canal), per Main Trunk (Tongariro from Lyttelton), Wednesday, December 21, at 5 p.m. Correspondence for Great Britain, Ireland and Continent of .Europe must be specially addressed A ‘per Tongariro.” Australian States. Ceylon, India, China, Japan, Straits Settlements and South Africa (also Great Britain, Ireland and Continent of Europe, specially addressed correspondence, via Australia onlv’), per Maunganui, Friday, December 23, at 1 p.m. Parcels at 11 a.m. Norfolk. Island, per Hinemoa, Wednesday. December 28, at 1 p.m. Parcels at 11 a.m. Great Britain. Ireland and Continent of Europe, Pitcairn Island, Central America, Cristobal (Panama Canal), per lonic. Tliursda*y, December 29. at 7 p.m. Correspondence for Great Britain, Ireland and Continent of Europe must be specially addressed "per lonic.” Parcels at 3 p.m. Cook Islands, Tahiti, Canada, North America, West Indies, Great Britain, Ireland and Continent of Europe, via San Francisco (to connect with Tahiti at Wellington), Monday, January 2, at 9 a.m. Due London February 3. Parcels for Cook Islands, Tahiti and America, December 31, at 11 a.m. INCOMING OVERSEAS MAILS S.S. Ulimaroa, due Auckland December 27 (Australian mail). R.M.S. Naigara, due Auckland January 2, 1928 (English and American mail). THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1927 Wanganui, Palmerston North, Wellington, etc., 4 a.m. Thames, 10.30 a.m. Beachlands, etc., 12 noon. Mangonui (also Mangonui, forward parcels), 3 p.m. Wellington. Wanganui, Palmerston North, Hastings and .Napier (letters only), 5 p.m. Southern Offices of New Zealand (also Gisborne and Tokomaru Bay letters), 5.30 p.m. Turua, Waikino, etc., 7.45 p.m. WM. J. GOW, Chief Postmaster.