MAIL NOTICES
Subject to necessary alterations mails will close at the Chief Post Office as under :— .For Wangauui, New Plymouth, also Manawatu, Rangitikei, and Taranaki Districts, per Manawatu train (Thorndon Station), daily, 8.30 a.m.; mall van, < 45 a.m For Wanganui; also Manawatu and Rangitikei Districts, per Manawatu train (Thorndon Station), daily, 3.15 p.m For. Wairarapa District, per Wairarapa tram (Lumbton Station), daily, 6.30 a.m. and 3.30 p m. For Napier and Hawkes Bay District, per Manawatu train (Thorndon Station), daily. 8.28 a.m. and 3.15 p.m. For Auckland and DUtrlct j also New Plymouth and Wanganui and Napier, per Main Trunk train (Thorndon Station), daily, 11 a.m.; late fee, Chief Post Oilice, 11.15 a.m. ; late fee letter box; Thorndon Railway Station, 11.45 a.m. For Paimerston North, Napier, Wanganui, Auckland, and Auckland District, per Second Main Trunk train (Thorndon Station), daily, 8 p.m. (except Saturdays); late-fee, 8.15 p.m. FRIDAY, 30th OCTOBER For Southern Offices of New Zealand, also Greymouth, Hokitika, and Reef ton, per Wahine, 6.16 p.m For Nelson and French Pass, per Pateena, 7.46 p.m. SATURDAY, 31et OCTOBER For Picton, Blenheim, Nelson, Westport, Greymouth, Hokitika, and Reef ton; also the 1 bays between Picton, Crail Bay, and The Portage, via Torea Neck (to connect with an oil launch fit Picton), per Arahura, 11.60 a.m For Nelson, per Nikau, 1.20 p.m. For Southern Offices of New Zealand; also Greymouth, Hokitika, and Reeftoh, per Monowai, 7,45 p.m. SUNDAY, Ist NOVEMBER For North and Central America and West Indies For United Kingdom and Continent of Europe Mails for Chatham Islands close at Lyttelton on Thursday^ sth November, at 3 pjn. The advertised times for closing malls by steamers are liable to alteration (earlier or later) at any moment. The Parcel Mail 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. As the last clearance of the City receivers is made at 6 p.m. on Saturdays, all correspondence for the Sunday night Auckland express must be posted at the Chief Post Office not later than 8 p.m. on Sunday. The public are earnestly requested to register all letters containing money or valuables intended to be sent by post. I 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. All books and sample packet's 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, All the principal mails by train and steamer close at Te Aro and Courtenayplace 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 Trunk Express close at Courtenayplace at 6 p.m. and Te Aro 8 p.m. A. P. DRYDEN, Chief Postmaster.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue LXXXVIII, 30 October 1914, Page 6
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525MAIL NOTICES Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue LXXXVIII, 30 October 1914, Page 6
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