MAIL SERVICES

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 239, 29 December 1927, Page 3

MAIL SERVICES

THIS DAY Tauranga, Te Puke, Whakacane, Opotlki, etc., 4.30 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. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1927. Wanganui, Palmerston North, Wellington, etc., 4 a.m. Whangaparaoa, etc., 4 a.m. Thames, etc., 4 sum. New Plymouth and Taranaki District. Parcels at 10 a.m., 1 p.m. Surfdale, etc., 3.30 p.m. Putiki, etc., 3.30 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. New Year Holidays, 1927-28. POSTAL BRANCH Saturday, December 31. —An overcounter delivery of town letters (registered as well as ordinary) will be made from the Postmen’s Branch, first floor, between 7 and 8 p.m. A special clearance of all street “receivers” will be made at 6 p.m.; the midnight clearance will not be made. Monday, January 2 (for . New Day), will be observed as a close holiday. A midnight clearance of street “receivers” .will be made. There will be no delivery by postmen. Monday, January 2 (for New Year’s Day).—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. Eunday, January I.—Mails for Southern Offices will close at 5 p.m. and 5.30 p.m. 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 Saturday, December 31. —8 a.m. to 9 Pm. Monday, January 2.—9 a.m., to 12 noon and 7 p.m. to midnight. OUTGOING OVERSEAS MAILS Australian States, Ceylon, India, China, Japan, Straits Settlements and South Africa, per Ulimaroa, Friday, December 30, at 9 a.m. Parcels, December 29. at 3 p.m. Great Britain, Ireland and Continent of Europe, Pitcairn Island, Central America, Cristobal (Panama Canal), Per lonic, Friday, December 30, at 7 P-m. Correspondence for Great Britain, Ireland and Continent of Europe must be specially addressed “Per lonic.” Parcels at 3 p.m. Tonga. Apia and Pago Pago, per Tofua, Saturday, December 31, at 9 a.m. Parcels, December 30, at 3 P-m. Cook Islands, Tahiti, Canada, North America, West Indies, Great Britain, “eland and Continent of Europe, via oan Francisco (to connect with TaJUi at Wellington). Monday, January at 9 a.m. Due London February 1. parcels for Cook Islands, Tahiti and America. December 31, at 11 a.m. * WM. J. GOW, r Chief Postmaster.