MAIL NOTICE.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 304, 24 December 1929, Page 4

MAIL NOTICE.

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. C. Chamberlin P. 8., 7.45 p.m. Christmas Day. Wednesday, 25th December, 1929. 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. Thursday, 26th December, 1929. Wanganui, Palmerston North, Wellington, etc., 4 a.m. Whangarei, Dargaville, etc., 4 a.m. Wellington, Wanganui, New Plymouth. Palmerston North, Hastings, Napier and Cambridge (letters only), 5.30 p.m. Southern Offices of New Zealand (also Gisborne and Tokomaru Bay), 5.30 p.m. Outgoing Overseas Mails. Australian States, Ceylon, India, China, Japan, Straits Settlements, South Africa, and Egypt, per Ulimaroa, on Saturday, 28th December, at 9 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, 30tli December, at 5.30 p.m. Due London, 28th 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 (139 bags Australian mail). December 29—R.M.s. Aorangi, from Vancouver (306 bags English and American mail). CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS, 1929-30. Postal Branch. TUESDAY, 24th and 31st DECEMBER—An over-counter delivery of Town letters (registered as well as ordinary) will be made from the Postmen's Branch, first floor, between 7 and 8 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 made as usual. THURSDAY, 26th DECEMBER (BOXING DAY) 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 5.30 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 box at the entrance to the railway station platform, up to 10 minutes before the advertised times of departure of the Express trains. THURSDAY. 2nd JANUARY—AII branches will be open for business. The usual afternoon 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 5.30 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,