MAIL NOTICES

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 51, 28 August 1914, Page 6

MAIL NOTICES

Subject to necessary alterations mails will close at the Chief Post Office as under : — For Wangauui, New Plymouth, also Manawatu, Kvngitikei, and Taraiiakl Districts, per llaniiwatu train (Thorndon Station), daily, 6.30 a.m. ; mail vuu, 745 a.m. Pol' WailKanul; jKo iManaWatll and Baiigitikei Districts, per Manawatu train (Thorndon Station), daily, 3.1Q p.m. For WairVtrapn District, per Wairarapa train (Laiiibtoii Station), daily, 6.30 a.m. and 3.30 •j in. For .Napier and Hawkes Bay District, per Manawatu ti'jlli (I'hoi'ndon Station), dally, 8.28 a.m. ami 3.1G p.m. For Auckland and District ; also New Plymouth and Wanganui and Napier, per Main Trunk train (Thorndou Station), daily, 11 a.m.; late fee, Chief Post Office, 11.16 a.m.; late fee letter box, Thorndon Kail way Station, 11.45 a.m. . For l'almerston North, Napier, Waiiganui. Auckland, and Auckland District, pel' Second Main Trunk train (Thorndon Station), daily, 8 p.m. (except Saturdays); late-fee, 8.15 p.m. FIUDAY, 28th AUGUST. For Southern Offices ©f New • Zealand, also dreymouth, Hokitika, and Reefton, per Wahine, ti.ls p.m. For Nelson and French Pass, per Pateeua, 7.45 p.ui.i SATURDAY, 29th AUGUST. For Pioton, Blenheim, Nelson, Westport, Greymouth, Hokitika, and Keefton; also the Bays (to connect with Elsie and oil launch at Picton), per Arahura, 11,50 a.m. Parcel mail for Australian States and the Hast, pel' Manuka noon. For Australian States, India, China , Japan, Straits Settlements, and South Africa (due Sydney 2nd September), per Manuka, 1.30 p.m. (Money orders must be obtained two hours before the advertised time of closing the mails). For Nelson, per Nikuu, 1.20 p.m. For Southern Offices of New Zealand and Greymouth, Hokitika, and Keefton, per Maori, 7.45 p.m, SUNDAY, 30th AUGUST. For Australian States. South Afrlc*. and tho Bast) to connect with toe Victoria at Auckland

(due Sydney sth September), per Main Trunk train, 8 p.m. (This is a close connection with the steamer sit Auckland). Mails for Australian States, South Africa, and the Hast close at Auckland, per Victoria, on Monday, 31st AiiKUst, at 4.15 p.m. The advertised times for closing mails by steamers are liable to alteration (earlier or later) at any moment. As the last clearance of the City receivers is made at 0 p.m. oil Saturdays, all correspond- I ence for the Sunday night Auckland express must be posted at the Chief Post Office not later than 8 p.m. on Sunday. The Parcel Alail per Main Trunk Express closes at the C.P.O. at 10.30 a.m., and for the South per Ferry Steamer at 6 p.m. Parcels for despatch 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 the advertised times of closing of mails The public are earnestly requested to rejistcr all letters containing money or valuables intended to be sent by post. 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 specitted, registered letters and parcels post packages must be handed in and money orders obtained one hour before the ordinary mail closes. All the principal mails by 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 latefee clearance, and that mails by the ferry steamers for Southern Offices close at 6 p.m. Mails for Auckland and Auckland District 'per Second Main Tmnk Express close at Courtenayplace at 6 p.m. and Te Aro 8 p in. A. P. DRYDEN, Chief Postmaster