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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 545, 24 December 1928, Page 12

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THIS DAY Wellington, Wanganui, New Plymouth, .Palmerston North, Hastings and Napier (letters only), 5 p.m. Southern Offices of New Zealand (also G.sborne and Tokomaru Bay,. 5.30 p.m. CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS, 1928-25 POSTAL BRANCH MONDAY, DECEMBER 24 AND 31 An over-counter delivery ot town letters (registered as well as ordinary) will be made from the postmen’s branch, first floor, between 7 and 8 p.m. On both days a splcial clearance of all city letter-boxes will be made at 6 p.m. The midnight clearance will not be made on the 24th instant. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 25 (Christmas Day) Christmas Day will be observed as a close holiday. * or Southern offices will close at . 5.30 p.m. The midnight clearance of street letterboxes will be made as usual. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26 (Boxinq R ay l 1 (New Year's Day) will be observed as close holidays. All mails will close at 4 a.m.,’ with the exception that those for Southern offices will close at 5.30 p.m. °nly parcels on which the “Express Transit” fee has been paid will be dispatched. The midnight clearance will be made as usual. ?o?I e * Wil i 1 £. e no / elive i’y by postmen. 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 express trains. telegraph branch TUESDAY, DECEMBER 25 10 a.m. to 10.30 p.m., and 5 p.m. to 5 30 p.m. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.’to midnight. TUESDAY, JANUARY 1 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. to midnight. OUTGOING OVERSEAS MAILS Australian States, Ceylon, India, China Japan, Straits Settlements, South Africa, per Ulimaroa, Friday, December 2S, at 9 a.m. Parcels at 3 p m Thursday, December 27. Fiji. Tonga, Apia. Pago Pago, and Honolulu, per Tofua, Saturday, December -9, at 9 a.m. Parcels at 3 p.m., Friday, December 28. Cook Islands, Tahiti, Canada, North America, West Indies, Great Britain, Ireland, and Continent of Europe, via San Francisco (to connect with Makura at Wellington), Monday, December 31, at 5.30 p.m. Due London January 29. Parcels for Cook Islands, Tahiti, and America, December 29, at 11 a.m. INCOMING OVERSEAS MAILS December 25: S.S. Ulimaroa, from Sydney (354 bags Eastern and Australian mail). December 30: R.M.M.S. Aorangi, from Vancouver (English and American mail). CHRISTMAS DAY, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1928 Wellington, New Plymouth, Wanganui, Palmerston North, Hastings and Napier (letters only), 5.30 p.m. Southern Offices of New Zealand (also Gisborne and Tokomaru Bay), 5.30 p.m. BOXING DAY, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1928 Wanganui, Palmei'ston North, Wellington, etc.. 4 a.m. Whangarei, Dargaville, etc., 4 a.m O’Brien P. 8., 4 a.m. Awaroa, Cowes, etc., 4 a.m. Surfdale, etc., 4 a.m. McGill and Stanley P. 8., Vipond P B Shakespear P. 8., O’Connor P.B. and Sheffield P. 8., 4 a.m. Beachlands and Maraetai, 4 a.rh. Kerikeri and Kemp P. 8., 4 a.m Wellington, New Plymouth, Wanganui Palmerston North, Hastings and Napier (letters only), 5.30 p.m. Southern Offices of New Zealand (also Gisborne and Tokomaru Bay), 5.30 p.m. WM. J. GOW. Chief Postmaster.