MAIL SERVICES

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 241, 31 December 1927, Page 4

MAIL SERVICES

THIS DAY Tauranga, Te Puke, Whakatane, Opotiki, etc., 4.30 p.m. SUNDAY, JANUARY 1, 1928 Wellington, Wanganui, Palmerston North, Hastings and Napier (letters only), 5 p.m. Southern Offices of New Zealand (also Gisborne and Tokomaru Bay letters), j 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 specia'l clearance of all street “receivers” will bo made at 6 p.m.; the midnight clearance will not be made. Monday, January 2 (for New Year’s 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. Sundav, 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 Sta.tion platform, up to 10 minutes before the advertised times of departure of the expresses. TELEGRAPH BRANCH Saturday, December 31.—8 a.m. to D p.m. Monday, January 2.—9 a.m., to 12 noon and 7 p.m. to midnight. OUTGOING OVERSEAS MAILS Fiji, Tonga, Apia, Pago Pago, and Honolulu, per Tofua, Saturday, December 31, at D a.m. December 30, 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 1. Parcels for Cook Islands, Tahiti and America, December 31, at 11 a.m. Great Britain, Ireland and Continent of Europe, Pitcairn Island, Central America, Cristobal (Panama Canal), per lonic, Tuesday, January 3, at 7 p.m. Correspondence for Great Britain, Ireland and Continent of Europe must be specially addressed “per lonic.” Parcels at 3 p.m. Australian States, Ceylon, India, China, Japan, Straits Settlements and South Africa, per Niagara, Tuesday, January 3, at 7 p.m. Parcels at 3 p.m. INCOMING OVERSEAS MAILS R. Niagara, due Auckland, January 2, 1928. (386 bags English and American mail.) S. Marama, due Auckland January 3 (Australian mail). MONDAY, JANUARY 2, 1928. Wanganui, Palmerston North’, Wellington, etc., 4 a.m. Tauranga, Te Puke, Whakatane, Opotiki, etc., 4 a.m. Wellington, Wanganui, Palmerston North, Hastings and Napier (letters only), 5 p.m. Southern Offices of New Zealand (also Gisborne and Tokomaru Bay), 5.30 p.m. WM. J. GOW, Chief Postmaster.