MAIL NOTICE.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 303, 23 December 1929, Page 4

MAIL NOTICE.

This Day. Wellington, New Plymouth, Wanganui. l'almerston North, Hasting, Napier and Cambridge (letters only), 3 p.m. ■ Southern Offices o£ New Zealand (also Gisborne and Tokomaru Bay), 3.30 p.m. Tuesday, 24th December. Wanganui, Palnierston North, Wellington, etc., 4 a.m. Whaugarei, Dargaville, etc., 6.30 a.m. and 3 p.m. Mahurangi and Shore 1?. 8., 4 a.m. Coromanuel, Pakatoa, Colville and Ainodeo Bay, 4 a.m. Port Fitzroy, Whangapara, Tryphena, Ukupu, 7 a.m. Putiki (Onetangi) and O'Brien P. 8., 8 a.m. Surfdale, Atkinson P.B. and Thornton F. 8., 8 a.m. Awaroa, Cowes, etc., S a.m. Gisborne, second class matter (parcels 3 p.m. Monday), 10 a.m. Hicks Bay and Te Araroa, also Tokomaru Bay and Tologa Bay (second-class matter, parcels 11 a.m.), 11 a.m. Paeroa and Ngatea (letters only), 2 p.m. Thames and Waitakaruru (letters only), 2.30. Turua, 3 p.m. Kawau, 3.30 p.m. Wellington, Wanganui, New Plymouth, Falmerston North, Hastings, Napier and Cambridge (letters only), 5 p.m. Southern Offices of New Zealand (also . Gisborne and Tokomaru Bay), 5.30 p.m. C. Chamberlin P. 8., 7.45 p.m. Outgoing Overseas Mails. Australian States, Ceylon, India, China, Japan, Straits Settlements, South Africa, and Egypt, per Ulimaroa, on Saturday, 28th December, at D a.m. Parcels at 3 p.m. Friday, 27th December. Fiji, Tonga, Apia, Pago Pago, per Tofua, on Saturday, 28th December, at 9 a.m. • Parcels, at 3 p.m., Friday, 27th December. Cook Islands, Tahiti, Canada, North America, West Indies, Great Britain, Ireland and Continent of Europe, via San Francisco (to connect with Tahiti, at Wellington), on Monday, 30th December, at 5.30 p.m. Due London, 2Sth January. Parcels for Cook Islands, Tahiti and America, Saturday, 28th December, at 11 a.m. Incoming Overseas Mails. December 24 —S.s. Ulimaroa, from Sydney . (Australian mail). December 29 —K.M.m.s. Aorangi, from Vancouver (English and American mail). Christmas and New Year Holidays, 1929-30. Postal Branch. TUESDAY, 24th and 31st DECEMBER—An I over-counter delivery of Town letters (registered as well as ordinary) -will be made from the Postman's Branch, first floor, between 7 and S p.m. On 24th inst. a special clearance of all city letter-boxes will be made at 6 p.m.. but the usual midnight clearance will not be made. WEDNESDAY, 25th DECEMBER (CHRISTMAS DAY) will be observed as a close holiday. Mails for Southern offices will close at 5.30 p.m. The midnight clearance of street letter boxes will be Jiade as THURSDAY 26th DECEMBER (BOXING D\Y) and WEDNESDAY, Ist JANUARY (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 5.3 C p.m. Only parcels on which the "Express Transit" fee has been paid will be dispatched. The midnight clearance will be made as usual. There will be no delivery by postmen. Late fee letters for Southern offices may be posted in the bos at the entrance to the railway station platform, up to 10 minutes before the advertised times ot departure of the Express trains. THURSDAY. 2nd JANUARY-AII branches "will be open for business. The usual •■""•noon delivery by postmen will not be made. Telegraph Branch. WEDNESDAY, 25th DECEMBER—IO a.m. to 10 30 a.m., and 5 p.m. to 3.30 p.m. THURSDAY, 26th DECEMBER—9 a.m. to 2 p.m.. and 7 p.m. to midnight. WEDNESDAY. Ist JANUARY—9 a.m. to 2 p.m., and 7 p.m. to midnight. H. P..DONALD, Chief Postmaster,