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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 803, 25 October 1929, Page 2

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THIS DAY Wellington, Wanganui, New Plymouth, Palmerston North, Hastings, Napier, and Cambridge (letters only), 5 p.m. Southern Offices of New Zealand (also Gisborne and Tokomaru Bay), 5.30 p.m. LABOUR DAY, OCTOBER 28, 1929 Monday, October 28, will be observed as a holiday in all branches. On Saturday evening, October 26. a delivery of all correspondence, including registered, will be made over the postmen’s counter, first floor, between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. Mails usually dispatched on Monday, before 7.15 a.m.. will close at 4 a.m., those after 7.15 a.m. at the latter hour. The Main Trunk mails, however. will dose at 5.3 ft p.m. Late fee letters for Southern offices of New Zealand may be posted in the letter box at the entrance to the station platform up to < p.m. and 7..30 p.m., as usual. There will be no delivery by postmen. Tho Chief Telegraph Office will open from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.. and from 7 pan, to midnight. OUTGOING OVERSEAS MAILS Australian States, Ceylon, India, China, Japan, Straits Settlements, __ South Africa, pet* Marama, Saturday, October 26, at 10 a.m. Parcels, at 3 p.m., Friday, October 25. Great Britain, Ireland and Continent of Europe, Central America, Cristobal (Panama Canal), Pitcairn Island, per Main Trunk (Taraaroa, from Wellington), Tuesday, October 29, at u pm. Correspondence for Great Britain. Ireland and Continent of Europe, must be specially addressed “per Tamaroa. Parcels, 11 a.m., Saturday, October 26. Due London, December 2. _ . Note.—The best dispatch to Great Britain, Ireland, and Continent of Europe, closes at Auckland. Saturday, October 26, per s.s. Marama. via Austral!* only. Due London, December 1. Fiji. Tonga. Apia, Pago Pago and Honolulu, per Tofua, Saturday, November at 9 a.m. Parcels, at 3 p.m., Friday, November 1. . Cook Islands. Tahiti, Canada. North America, West Indies, Great Britain. Ireland and Continent of Europe, y l ?’ San Francisco (t«. connect with Tahiti, at Wellington). Monday, November 4, at 5.30 p.m. Due London, December Parcels, for Cook Islands, Tahiti, and America. Saturday. November - The Christmas despatch for newspapers, packets and parcel mails per direct steamer, for Great Britain and Ireland, will close at Auckland, on Wednesday, November 6. Parcel mails close at H a.m. Second-class matter, 3 p.m. Due London December 15. INCOMING OVERSEAS MAILS October 27: S.S. Golden West, from San Francisco (367 bags American mail). October 29: S.S. UUmaroa, from Sydney (Australian mail). November 3: R.M.M.S. Aorangi, from Vancouver (English and American mail). SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1929 Wanganui, Palmerston North, Wellington, etc., 4 a.m. - Whangarei. Dargaville, etc., 6.30 a.m. ftE® 4 p.m. C. Chamberlain P. 8., 4 a.m. "Waiharara, Kaimaumau, Rangipnta, Waihopo, Houhora, Pukenui. Te Kao, Parenga, Ngataki and Te Hapua (parcels, Friday, at 3 p.m.), 10.30 a.m. Maraetai, 11.30 a.m. O’Brien P. 8., 12 noon. Surfdale. Atkinson P. r. and Thornton P. 8., 12 noon. Awaroa, Cowes, etc., 12 noon. Paeroa and Ngntea (letters only*. 2 P inThames and Waitakururu (Utters only). J. J. KEARNEY. - Ac ting-Chief Postman**-