MAIL NOTICES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 116, 18 May 1910, Page 6

MAIL NOTICES.

Subject to necessary alterations, mails will close at the Chief Post Ofllce as under :— For Wanganui, New Plymouth, also Manawatu, Rangitikei, and Taranaki Districts, per Manawatu train (Thorndon Station), daily, at 6.30 a.m. For Wanganui, also Manawatu and Rangitikei Districts, per Manawatu train (Thorndon Station), daily, at 3 p.m. For Wairarapa District, per Wairarapa train (Lambton Station), daily, 6.30 a.m. and 2.30 p.m. For Napier and Hawkes Bay District, per Manawatu train (Thorndon Station), daily, 8 a.m. and 3 p.m. For Auckland and District, also New Plymouth and Wanganui, per Main Trunk train (Thorndon Station), daily, at 11.15 a.m. WEDNESDAY, 18th MAY. For Blenheim, per Opawa. 5 p.m. Parcel mail for United Kingdom, per Athenic, 5 p.m. For Southern Offices of Now Zealand, per Hnnri, 6 p.m. For Southern Offices ol New Zealand, also Australian States (due Melbourne 28th inst.), per Ulimaroa, 7.45 p.m. THURSDAY, 19th MAY. For United Kingdom and Continent of Europe, via Monte Video, Rio de Janeiro, and Teneriffe (due London Ist July) (for specially addressed correspondence only), per Athenic, 10 a.m. For Napier, GisDorne, ana Auckland, also Australian States (due Sydney 27th inst.), transhipping to Maheno at Auckland, per Mokoia, 4.20 p.m. For Southern Offices of New Zealand, per Mararoa. 6 p.m. FRIDAY, 20th MAY. For Ceylon, India, China, Straits Settlements, South Africa, and Continent of Europe and United Kingdom, via Brindisi (due London 26th June), per Moana, 10 a.m. For Australian States (duo Sydney 24th inst.), per Moana, 10 a.m. For Picton, Blenheim, French Pass, and Nclbon, per A rah ura, 10 a.m. For Kaikoura, per Wakatu, 10 a.m. For Southern Offices of New Zealand, aleo Australian States, to connect with Ulimaroa at 'Bluff, per Maori, 10 a.m. On Friday, the 20th inst., the Postal Department will be open in all its branches from 8 to 10 a.m., and, excepting the Moneyorder and Parcels Department, from 7 to 3 p.m. Mails despatched by steamers leaving during the day will close at 10 a.m.; mails by trains leaving before 10 a.m. will close at usual ; mails by the Main Trunk train will close at 10 a.m. There will not be any mails despatched by trains leaving during the afternoon. The letter-cm riers will make one full delivery closing at tlie Chief Post Office at C.4.> a.m. The next best debpntcli for United Kingdom and Continent of Kitrope v. ill l>o via Uijiuloi, closing at Wellington, per Moana, 0:1 Friday, 20th inst., at 10 a7m. The nc\t best despatch for Canada, United States of America, and West Indies, will be via Harotonga, Tahiti, and San Francisco, closing at Wellington, per Mokola, Friday, U'th Inet., at 10 a.m. All tbe principal malls by train aud iteamer

close at Te Aro and Courtenay-place Post Offices at the same hours as ot Ine Chief Post Office, with the exception that tlrcre is no late-fee clearance. Money orders for abroad must be obtained two hours before the advertised time of clobing mails. All books and sample packets and newspapers for places within the Dominion must be posted half an hour before the ordinary letter mail closes. Unless otherwise specified, registered letters and parcels-post packages must be handed in and money orders obtained one hour before the ordinary mail closes. • The Parcel-post branch of tho Chief Post Office, Wellington, has been removed from St. George's Buildinu.s, Drandon-street, to the building known as the Dnll&hed, Maginnitystreet. Parcels should be deposited at and taken delivery of at the Drillshed. R. B. MORRIS, Acting Chief Postmaster.