MAIL NOTICES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2969, 5 January 1917, Page 8

MAIL NOTICES

Subject to necessary alterations, mails will close at the Chief I'ofit Office, as under THIS DAY (FKIDAY), JANUARY 5. Wanganui Kqw Plymouth, also Manawatu, .Kangitikei, and Taranaki districts, per Manawatu train (Thorndon Station), Y. 30 a.m. Wanganui, also Manawatu and Kangitikei districts, per Jlanawatu, train (Thorndon Station), 3.15 p.m. IVairarapa district, per Wairarapa train (Lambton Station) 6.30 a.m. and 2.30 p.m.' Napier 'and Bawke's Bay district, per Manawatu train (Thorndon Station). 8.20 a.m. and 3.15 p.m. Auckland and district, also New Plymouth. Wanganui, and Napier, per Main Trunk train (Thorndon Station), 12.20 p.m. . Palmerston North, Napier, Wanganui, Auckland, and Auckland district, per second Main Trunk train (Thorndon Station), 8 p.m. (except Saturdays). Picton, Haveioclt, Blenheim, French Pass, I and Nelson, per Pateena, 11.50 a.m. Nelson, Reefton, and Wostport, per Kaitoa, 4.20 p.m. 6 Southern offices of New Zealand, also Wostport, Greymouth, Hokitika, and Eeefton, per Maori, 6.15 p.m. SATURDAY, JANUARY 6. Tonga, Samoa, and Fiji, per Talune, at Auckland per Main Trunk train, 12.20 p.m. Nelson, French Pass, and Havclock. per Nikau, 1.20 p.m. Tasmania (duo Hobart January 10), per Paloona, 3.30 p.m. Southern offices of Now Zealand, also Westport, Greymouth, Hokitika* and Bcefton, per Mararoa, 6.15 p.m. SUNDAY, JANUAKY T.Australian States and South. Africa, per Niagara at Auckland (due Sydney January 12), per Main Trunk "train. 8 p.m. MONDAY, JANUAHY 8. Chatham Islands, per Himitangi, 10 a.m. Kaikoura, per Wakatu, 4.20 p.m. Havelock, Hikoekoea, Wakatahuri, Buiwer, Pohuenui, Waihohonu, Elaine Bay, Homowood, Brightlands, Manaioa, Tiraora,. Nydia Bay, Maori Bay, To Puru, Okoha, To Rawa, Port Ligar, per Blen- , heim, 6 p.m. THTJUSDAY, JANUARY 11. : Parcel mail lor Australian States and j the East, per Bivcrina, 2.30 p.m. > Australian States, also Pago Pago and ; Samoa (due Sydney January 15), per Kiv- - erina, 3.30 p.m. Ceylon. India, China, Japan, Straits 1 Settlements, Egypt, and South Africa, per . lliverina, 3.30 p.m. . j ItEMINDEKS. Letter mails for Exfitditionary Forces will closo on Saturday, January 20, at 8 j p.m. i Newspaper and parcel mails for Expo- J ditionary Forces will close on Friday, Jan- ] uary 12, at noon. f Tlie next best dispatch for correspondence addressed to United Kingdom and ] Continent oi Europe will close at Welling- i ton on Monday, January 22, at 12.20 p.m. j Mails for Tonga, Samoa, and Fiji closo < at Auckland, per Talune, on Monday ] January 8, at 8.45 a.m. Mails for Australian States and South Africa closo at Auckland, per Niagara, on Monday, January 8, at 6.45 p.m. As correspondence for all neutral countries is subject to censorship it is urged in order to avoid delays that such corre- "■ spondenco be posted in ample time for 1 the mall, the day previous -to its dispatch if possible. £ Parcels for dispatch by steamers and , trains, with, the exception of the usual ferry steamers for southern offices, closo at the Chief Post Office, Wellington, one hour before the advertised times of closing of mails. „ . „ , £ The parcel-post mail per Main Trunk express oloses at the 0.P.0. at 11.30 a.m., and for the south per lerry steamer at J S- 45 P- m - ; t , ,1 r, late letters for mails beyond the Dominion cannot in future be posted on tho ~j steamer but must be posted in tho lateletter posting-box at the Chief Post Offico up to the appointed tirno shown on the g mail noticc. , ' , Unless otherwise specified, registered letters and parcels-post packages must bo handed in and money-orders obtained one i hour before tho ordinary mail closes. *11 books and sample-packets and newspapers for places within tho Dominion a must be posted half au hour More the ordinary letter-maTl closes. E The advertised time for closing mails liy steamers are liable to alteration [earlier or later) at any moment. As the last clearance of tho city rc- g reivers is ma<do at 5.45 p.m. on Saturdays, Nil correspondence for tho Sunday night express must be posted at the . Ohief Post Office not later than B p.m. on Sunday. The public are earnestly requested to register all letters containing. money or A raluables intended to bo sent by post. All the principal mails by train and a steamer close at To Aro and Courtenay Place Post Offices at the same hours as it tho Chief Post Office, with tbo exception that there is no late-fee clcarance, md that mails by the forry Bteamers for rj iouthern offices closo at 5.45 p.m. Mails tor Auckland and Auckland district, per g second Main Trunk express, close at Courienay Place at 5.45 p.m., and Tc Aro at 8 ll ' m ' A. P. DRYDEN, (Jhicf Postmaster. Chief Post Office, Wellington, ci January 5,1917. tl F