Mail Notices.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLV, Issue 265, 24 December 1903, Page 4

Mail Notices.

Mails will close at the Chief Post Office, Devon Street, as follows : For Wellington and South, daily, per Express, at 6.30 a.m. Late fee (mail van) at 7.25 a.m. THURSDAY, Dec. 24. For Auckland and North, per Takapuna, at 7 p.m. For Australian States, etc., at 6.30 a.m., due Sydney,, Dec. 30. For Niue and Pen-hrvn Islands, at 7p .m. For Samoa, Honolulu, Japan.PMllipine Islands, United States of America, Canada, British Columbia, Central and South America, British and Foreign West Indies, United Kingdom and Continent of Europe, via San Francisco, at 7 p.m. For money orders at 4 p.m. and registered letters at 5 p.m. Due London Jan. 23 SATURDAY, Dec. 26. For Auckland and North, per Takapuna, at 8 a.m. For Australian States, etc., at 8 a.m., due Sydney Jan. 1. For Ceylon, India, China, Japan, Straits Settlement, United Kingidom, and Continent of Europe, via Suez (for specially addressed correspondence only) at 8 a.m., due Loudon Feb. 7.

Mails for Fiji, Honolulu, United States of America, Canada, British Columbia, West Indies, United Kingdom and Continent of Europe, via Vancouver, per Moura from Auckland (specially .addressed correspondence only) close at Auckland Dec. 30, 11 a.m., due London Feb. 3.

Mails for South Africa per Waikare from Sydney, due Durban about Feb. 2, close at Wellington Jan. 2. Note.—The pi/biic ara again reminded that Christines Cards should be posted in covers entirely open at one end or both ends in open envelopes, with the flap turned inside. If the covers are not sufficiently open, the articles, if addressed to places within New Zealand, are taxed the deficiency at letter rates of postage, and forwarded to destination ; but if addressed to places beyond the colony they are detained and sent to the Dead Letter Office, Wellington.

CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS. Mail arrangements for Christmas and New Year Holidays : Friday, Dec. 25, and Friday, Jan. 1, being postal holidays, all mails usually despatched on those days will close on Thursday, 24th, and Thursday, 31st, at 8 p.m. A delivery will also be made over the public counter each Thursday evening from 8 to 9. 1 o'clock. Sunday hours will be observed for tJhe private box lobby on Dec. 25 and Jan. 1.

On Saturday (Boxing Day) the office will lie open in all branches except the money order and savings bank from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. The usual despatch of mails will be made up to 8 a.m. and one complete delivery will be-made by the letterter carriers at 8 a.m. Private box lobby open as usual. The railway travelling post office will run as usual on Christmas and New Year's day.

TELEGRAPH ARRANGEMENTS On Christmas Day, Sunday hours will b« observed, viz., 9.30 a.m. to 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. to 5.30 p.m. Boxing Day—9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and 7 p.m. to midnight. New Year's Day—9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. to mi'dnight.

Telephone Exehange open on Christmas Day from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. Boxing Day and New Year's Day, open as usual. ■