MAIL NOTICES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2971, 8 January 1917, Page 10

MAIL NOTICES

Subject to necessary alterations, mails will closo at the Chief l'ost OGice. as under:—

THIS DAY (MONDAY), JANUARY 8. W«n"ttiiui iNcw Plymouth, also Jlaiiawatu, "Hangitilvei. ami Turanaki &"*««". per Manawatu train iThorodon faution), 7.30 a.m. • ~ Wan"anui, also Jlaiiawatu and Kangitikei districts, per Jlanawatu, Ham (inoriidon Station), 3.15 p.in. Wairarapa. district. Her Wsirarnp* train (Lamblon Station) 6.30 a.m. and iM p.m. Napkr and Hawke's Boy district, per Manawatu train {Thorndon Station). 8.20 a.m. and 3.15 p.m. Auckland and district, also .New Plymouth. Wcngamii, and Napier, per Alain Trunk train (Thorndon Station). 12.Z0 p.m. Palmcrston North, Napier, Wanganui, Auckland, and Auckland district, per second Main Trunk train (Thorndon Station). 8 p.m. tetrant Saturdays).. Chatham Islands, per Knmtangi, 10 a.m. Picton, Ifavolock, Blenheim. French Pass and Nelson, per Patccnn, 11.50 a.m. . Napier autUGisborue, per Tarawcra, 4.20 P 'Nelson, Reefton, and Westport, per Kaitoa, 4.20 p.m. • Kaikoura, per Waltatu, 4.20 p.m. Havelock, Hikoekoea. Wakatahuri; Buiirer Pohuenni, Waihohonu. Elaine Bay, Homewood. Brightlands. Manaroa, Tiraora, Nydia Bay, Maori Bay, Te Piiru, Okoha, Te Kawa, Port Ligar. per Blenheim, 6 p.m. Southern . offices of .New Zealand, also Westport, Greyraouth, Hokitika, and ton, per Maoril 6.15 p.m. TUESDAY, JANUARY 9. * Picton, Havelock, Blenheim, Nelson, Westport, Greymouth, Hokltika, and Kcefton, per Mapouriko, 11.20 a.ni; ' Nelson, French Pass, and Havelock per Nil;au, 4.20 p.m. Southern officer of New Zealand, also Greymouth, Hokitika, and lioeftoii, per Mararoa; 6.15 p.m. THURSDAY, JANUARY '.11. , Parcel mail for Australian States' and the East, per Kivcrina, 2.30 p.m. Australian States, also Pago Pago ana Samoa (due 6ydney January 15), per Eivcrina 330 p.m. Oyion India. China, Japan, Straits Settlements, Bgypt, and South Africa, per jiivcrina, 3.30 p.m. ' ■•••'.. FIiIDAY, JANUARY 12. Parcel mails for United Kingdom and Continent of Europe. „,-■/'» United Kingdom and Continent of EUr ° PC - REMINDERS. Letter mails for Expeditionary Forces will closo on Saturday. January 20, at 8 '"'Newspaper and parcel mails for Eipeditionary Forces will close on Friday, January 12, at noon. • • ' The next best dispatch, for correspondence addressed to United Kingdom and Continent oi Europe- will cloEe at Wellington on Monday, January 22, at 12.20 p.m. Hails for Toflga, Samoa, and Fiji close at Auckland, per Talune, tilts day, at W5 a 'Mails for Australian States and South Africa close «t Auckland, per Niagara, this day, 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 correspondence be posted in ample time for the mail, 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, close at the Chief Post Office, Wellington, one hour before tho advertised times of closing The parcel-post mail per Main Trunk express closes at the C.1'.0. at 11.30 a.m., and for the south per ferry steamer at 'Late letters for mails beyond the Dominion cannot In future be posted on the steamer, but must be posted in theJatelctter posting-box at the Chief Post Office up to the appointed time shown on the All the principal mail 3by train and steamer close at Te Aro and Courtenay Place Post Offices at the same hours as at the Chief Post Office, with the exception that, there is no late-fee clearance, and that mails by the ferry steamers for southern offices close at 5.45 p.m.. Malls for Auckland and Auckland district, per second Main Trunk express, close at Courtenay Place at 5.45 p.m., and TeAro at 8 p.m. A. P. DBTDEN, Chief Postmaster. Chief Post Office, Wellington, January 8, 1917. MAIZE COMMANDEERED (Ecc. January 7, 5.5 p.m.) London,' January 6. Tho "EvcniuK Standard" states that tho Government has taken over all supplies; of maize in Britain.—licuter. AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY SUPERVISOR APPOINTED, (ltec. January 7, 5.5 p.m.) London ( January 6. ■ Mr S. 1 ,, . Ed<;e. motorist, lias been appointed supervisor for tho production oif agricultural machinery, under the food controller.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. WINDING UP GERMAN BANKS A NEWSPAPER SUGGESTION. London, January 5. Regarding the report concerning the windiTiK up of German banks, s the "Daily Jliiil" says: "Tho banks should bo immediately shut down, the German managers interned, and unrealised securities handed over to the Public Trustee."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.