MAIL NOTICES

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 228, 27 June 1928, Page 13

MAIL NOTICES

Subject to necessary alterations, mails will close at the Chief Post office as Und ° r: ~ THIS DAY. Westport, per Komata, 10.4 a a.m.; late Parcel mail for Australian States and the East, via Melbourne, per Hauraki, closes C.P.O. at 11 a.m. Parcel mall for Cook Islands closes Cpictom Havelock, and / Blenheim, via Pictou, per Tainahlne, 1.40 p.m.; late lee, 2 p.m.; at steamer, 2.45 p.m. Australian States, Ceylon, India, China, Japan, Straits Settlements, Egypt, and South Africa, via Melbourne, per Hauraki, 3 p.m.; late fee, 4 p.m. Steamer, 4.40 P Nelson, Havelock, and French Pass, also letter-mails for Blenheim,. Pictou, Reefton, and Westport, also correspondence for the undermentioned bays, per oil launch at Havelock, per Nlkau, 5 p.m.; late fee, 5.3 U p.m.; at steamer, (>.lo p.m.— Bulwcr, Crall Bay, Elaine Bay, Ilonai, Mauaroa, Port Ligar, Te Puru, Wakatahuri, Waitata Buy, also private bags for Homewood, Pohucnui, Okoba, Anakolia, Clova Bay, Waimaru, Brightlauds, and Titirangi estate. Cook Islands, per Waipahl at Auckland, 5 p.m.; late fee, 6 p.m. (Late-tee box outside Tborndon station. 7 p.m.) Southern offices of New Zealand, per Wahi no, 6 p.m.; late fee. 0.j5 p.m. <Latefco box at gates to Ferry V harf, t. 30 P- ‘ U ’ ) THURSDAY, JUNE 28. Parcel mall for Australian States, via Newcastle, closes C.P.O. at 11 a.m. Australian States, via Newcastle, per Ktilkorai, 3 p.m.; lute fee, 4 p.m.; steamer, 4.45 p.m. , , ~ Nelson and Havelock, also letter-mails for Blenheim, Reefton. and Westport, per Arahura, 5 p.m.; late fee, 5.30 p.m.; at steamer, 7.15 p.m. Southern offices of New Zealand, per Muori, 6 p.m.; late fee, 6.45 p.m. (Lutefee box at gates to Ferry Wharf, 7.30 P-m ’ ) SATURDAY. JUNE 30. Parcel mall for America, per Niagara at Auckland, closes C.P.O. at l.t a.m. MONDAY. JULY Great Britain, Ireland, and Continent of Europe, United States of America, Canada, Mexico, and West Indies, via Vancouver, also Fiji and Honolulu, per Niagara at Auckland, 11.45 a.m.; late fee, 6 p.m. ( Late-fec box outside Thorudon station, 7 p.m.) Money-orders must be obtained by 11 a.m. Mail closes at Auckland at 10 a.m. on Tuesday; due London August 2. , . , . Note.—Newspaper rate of postage to United States of America is Jd. for each two ounces. „ . MAILS CLOSE DAILY. Wairarapa district, 3 a.m.; 6 a.m.; 3 p.m., late fee 3.15 p.m. Rangitikei district, 9 a.m., late fee railway station 10 a.m.; 12.30 p.m., late fee C.P.O. 1 p.m., railway station 1.50 p.m.; 4 p.m., late fee C.P.O. 4.15 p.m. New Plymouth and Taranaki district, 9 a.m., late fee railway station 10 a.m.; 12.80 p.m., late fee C.P.O. 1 p.m., railway station 1.50 p.m. Wanganui, 9 a.m., late fee railway station 10 a.m.; 12.30 p.m., late fee C.P.O. 1 p.m., railway station 1.50 p.m.; 4 p.m., 6 p.m. Manawatu district, 7.30 a.m.; 4 p.m., late fee C.P.O. 4.15 p.m. Napier, S a.m.; 12.30 p.m., late fee C.P.O. 1 p.m., railway station 1.50 p.m.; b p.m. Parcels mails for Auckland and district, Auckland and district, also Taihape, Mangaweka, Ohakune, Raetihi, Raugataua, Taumarunui, Raurimu, Thames, Rotorua, Waihi, Paeroa, Te Aroha, Morrinsville, Cambridge, Tauranga, Hamilton, Frankton Junction, Te Puke, and Palmerston North, 12.30 p.m., late fee C.P.O. 1 p.m., railway station 1.50 p.m.; letter-mails only, per Limited express, Sunday to Friday at 5 p.m., late fee C.P.O. 0 p.m.. late-fee box outside Thorndon station, 7 I) ’ m ‘ OUTGOING OVERSEA MAILS. Mails for Great Britain, Ireland, and Continent of Europe (specially addressed correspondence only), per Port Sydney, close at Wellington on Wednesday. July 4, at 3 p.m. (late fee, C.P.O. 4 p.m.). Mails for Great Britain, Ireland, and Continent of Europe (specially addressed Correspondence only), also Pitcairn Island, Cristobal (Panama Canal). Central America, British, French, And Dutch Guiana, Venezuela, Republic of Colombia, Peru, and Ecuador, per Tainui, close at Wellington on Wednesday, July 4, at 3 p.m. (late fee C.P.O. 4 p.m.). Mails which left Wellington on May 22, via San Francisco, arrived at London on June 19. INCOMING OVERSEA MAILS. (Arrival times approximate only.) June 27—S.S. Taranaki, from Loudon, via Lyttelton: 373 parcel-receptacles. July 2—R.M.S. Makura, from San Francisco: English and American mail. July 3—S.S. Marama, from Sydney: Australian mail. ,T. C. McCREA. Chief Postmaster. Chief Post Oilice, Wellington, Jw gr, _

“And where have the other children come from?” asked the senior inspector when a deputation from a country school waited on the Taranaki Education Board the other dqy (says an exchange). “Oh, we have one family of 16 children,” was the reply. “Is that likely to become general in the district?” said the chairman. “Well, we have some fair families,” was the answer, uttered in a tone giving the impression that there were possibilities.