MAIL NOTICES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 156, 30 December 1911, Page 6

MAIL NOTICES

NEW PLYMOUTH. Mails will close (subject to alteration) at the Chief Post Office, New Plymouth, as follows: For Wellington and South, also Auckland and North, daily, per mail train, at 6.15 a.m. MONDAY, JAN. 1 (New Year's Day.) For Fiji, Friendly Islands and Samoa, per Atua, from Auckland, at 0.15 a.m. For Auckland and North, per Earawa, at 7 p.m. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3. For Auckland and North, .per Earawa, at 7 p.m. THURSDAY, JANUARY 4. For Australian States (due Sydney January 9, also for Ceylon, India, China, Eastern and Mediterranean ports, at 6.15 *.m. (Duo London February 10). FRIDAY, JANUARY 5. For Tasmania, via Bluff, at <US a.m. (Due Hobart January 11). SATURDAY, JANUARY 6. For Australian States, via Auckland, at 6.15 a.m. (Due Sydney January 12). I TUESDAY, JANUARY 9. I Parcel mail for United Kingdom (per Ruahine), at 5 p.m. THURSDAY, JANUARY 11. For Rarotonga, Tahiti, United States of America, West Indies, Central America, Canada, United Kingdom, and specially addressed correspondence for Eur-

ope, via San Francisco, at 6.15 a.m. (Due London February 12). ' CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS. POST AND TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT. I POSTAL BRANCH. Mondays, the 25th December and Ist January (Christmas and New Year's Day) are to be ob- , served" as close holidays, I TELEGRAPH OFFICE. - The Tele- ' graph Office will open on Monday, 26th ; inst. (Christmas Day) from 9.30 to 1Q ! a.m. and from 5 to 5.30 p.m. On Tues- ; day (Boxing Day) and Monday (New . Year's Day) the hours will be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. to midnight. TELEPHONE EXCHANGE.-The Telephone Exchange will remain open continuously. , PRIVATE BOX LOBBY. - Sunday hours will be observed on December 25 and January 1; usual hours on December 26. I MAILS.—The usual despatch of all j mails wiU be made up to 8 a.m. on each , of the holidays, and receivers and posting boxes will be cleared accordingly. TRAVELLING POST OFFICE will run as usual. COUNTER DELIVERIES of town letters (ordinary and registered) will be made on Saturday evenings, 23rd anil 30th inst., from 8 to 0 p.m. SPECIAL FORM OF TELEGRAPH ' MESSAGE. In order to afford facilities for the transmission by telegraph of Christmas and New Year greetings, special print-' ed forms containing the message, "Wishing you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year," may be obtained at the Telegraph Office for use on and between the 19th and 23rd, and the 26th and 30th December. A uniform charge of Sixpence for each such telegram will be made, provided the Address and Signature do not contain more than eleven words. If, however, the text as printed is varied in any Way,' or other words added thereto, the tele* gram will be treated as an ordinary one and charged for accordingly. A. P. DRYDEN, Chief Postmaster,