MAIL NOTICES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 117, 19 May 1910, Page 6

MAIL NOTICES.

Subject to necessary alterations, mails will close at the Chief Past Office 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 (Tliorndon Station), daily, at 3 p.m. For Wairarapa District, per Wairarapa train (Larabton 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. THURSDAY, 10th MAY. For Blenheim, per Blenheim, 5 p.m. For Motueka, per Manaroa, 6 p.m. For Southern Offices ol New Zealand, pet Mararoa, 6 p.m. FRIDAY, 20th MAY. For Ceylon, India, China, Straits Settlements, South Africa, and Continent of Europe and United Kingdom, via Brindiei (due London 2Gth June), per Moana, 10 a.m. For Australian States (due Sydney 24th inst.), per Moana, 10 a.m. For Picton, Blenheim, French Pass, and Nelson, per Pateena, 10 a.m. For Kaikoura, per Wakatu, 10 a.m. For Southern Offices of New Zealand, also Australian States, to connect with Ulimaroa at Bluff, per Maori, 10 a.m. SATURDAY, 21st MAY. For Australian States, to connect with Maheno at Auckland, per Main Trunk train, 11.10 a.m. For Nelson, per Nikau, 12.20 p.m. For Picton, Blenheim, Nelson, Westport, Greymouth, and .Hokitika, per Arahura, 12.50 p.m. For Southern Offices ol New Zealand, per Victoria, ,4.20 p.m. For Southern Offices of New Zealand, per Mararoa, 7.45 p.m. On Friday, the 20th insfc., 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 8 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 as 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-carriers will make one full delivery closing at the Chief Post Office at G. 45 a.m. The next best despatch for United Kingdom and Continent of Europe will be via Brindisi, closing at Wellington, per Moana, on Friday, 20th inst., at 10 a.m. I The next best despatch for Canada, United States of America, and West Indies, will bo via Uarotonga, Tahiti, and San Francisco, closing at Wellington, per Mokoia, Friday, 27th inst., at 10 a.m. Mails for Australian States, per Maheno, close at Auckland, Monday, 23rd inst., at 4.15 p.m., and at Bluff, per Ulimaroa, 3 p.m. All the principal mails by train and steamer close at Te Aro and Courtcnay-place Post Offices at the same hours as at Ine Chief Post Office, with the exception that tin re is no late-lee clearance. Money orders for abroad must be obtained two hours before the advertised time of closing 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 the Chief Post Office, Wellington, has been removed from St. George's Buildings, Brandon-street, to the building known as the Dnllshed, Maginnitybtreet. Parcels should be deposited at and taken delivery of at the Drillshed. R. B. MORRIS, Acting Chief Postmaster.