MAIL NOTICES

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 153, 26 December 1914, Page 6

MAIL NOTICES

Subject to necessary alterations mails will close at the Chief 'ost Office as under : — , For Wanganui, New Plymouth, also Manawatu, Kangltikci, and Tarauaki Districts, per Manawatu train (Thorndon station), daily, 7.30 a.m.; mail vati 8.20 a.m. For Wanganui; also Msmawatu and Rangitlkel Districts per Manawatu train (Thorndon StatioD), daily, 3.15 p.m. For Wairarapa District, per Wairarapa train (Lambton Station), dally, C.30 a.nJ. and 3.30 p m. For Napier and Hawkes Bay District, per Manawatu train (Thorndon Station), daily, 8.20 a.m. and 3.15 p m. For Auckland and District; also New Plymouth and Wanganui and Napier, per Main Trunk train (Thorndon Station), dally, 12.20 p.m.; late fee, Chief Post Office, 12.33 p.m.; late fee letter box Thorndon .Railway Station, 1.0 p.m. For Pahnerstou North, Nattier, Wanganui, Auckland, and Auckland District, per Second Maiu Trunk train (Thorndon Station), daily, 8 p.in, (except Saturdays) ; late-i'ee. 8.15 p.m. SUNDAY. 27th DECEMBER For Australian States und South Africa: also Tonsil, Samoa, and Fiji, to connect with Tofua at Sydney (due Sydney Ist January), per Main Trunk train, 8 p.m. MONDAY, 28th DECEMBER For Fiji, Fanning Island, Honolulu, and Japan ; Canada, United States of America, Central America, West Indies, Mexico, United States of Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, British, Dutch and French Guiana, via Vancouver ; aleo United Kingdom and Continent of Europe (due London 20th January), per Makura from Auckland, per Main Trunk train, 12.20 p.m. (Money orders unust be obtained by 10.20 a.m.) For Kaikoura, per Wakatu, 3.20 p.m. For Napier and fllsbortie, per {donowai K4.20K 4.20 p.m. For Picton, Blenheim, French Pass, and Nelson, also the Bays between Picton, Crail Bay, aud the Portage, via. Torea Neck, to connect with an oil launch at Pictou, per Pateena, 4.20 p.m. For Southern Offices of New Zealand; also Greymouth. HoKitika, and lteefton, per Wahine, I 8.15 p.m. j TUESDAY, 29th DECEMBER For Picton, Blenheim, and Nelson, per Mapourika, 11.50 a.m. For Nelson, French Pass, and Waikawa Bay, per Kaitoa, 4.20 p.m. For Southern Offices of New Zealand, per Manuka, 4.20 p.m. For Southern Offices oi New Zealand, per Westralia, 4.20' p.m. For Havelock and the Bays, per Blenheim, 0 p.m. For Southern Offices of New Zealand; also Greymouth, Hokitlka, aud Rcefton, per Maori, [ 0.15 p.m. Maiis for Australian States aud South Africa alto Tonga, Samoa, and Fiji, close at Auckland, per Maheno, on Monday, 28th December, at 4 p.m. fliails lor Fiji, Fanning Island, Honolulu, ■Canada, United States of America, Central America, West Indies, Mexico, United States of Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, British, Dutch, find French Guiana, United Kingdom, and Continent of Europe, close at Auckland, per Makura, ou Tuesday, 29th December, at 10.30 a.m. On Thursday, the 31st iust.j an extra clearance will be made from the city and suburban receivers as follows: — Te Aro, Wellington South, and Thorndon, at 5 p.m. • Hataitai. Kilbirnie, Miramar, Seatoun, Island Bay, Vogeltowii, Brooklyn. Kelburn, Northland, and Wadestown at 4 p.m. There will not be any deliveries by letter-carriers on New Year's Day, but On Thursday, the 31st tnsfc., the Carriers' Department (entrance upstairs, fioin Feather-stou-street) will be open for the delivery of correspondence addressed to streets in the city and suburbs from Bto 0 p.m. ; also the public counter for 'the delivery of correspondence addressed to the Po»t Office will be open from 8 to 9 p.m. The parcels delivery counter will be open from 8 to 9 p.m, On Friday, the Ist January (New Year's Day), the Postal Department will be closed in all its branches. Mails for despatch by steamers will close at 8, p.m. on the previous evening, and the only despatches of correspondence by trains will close on New Year's Day as. fol- > lows:^For tile Wairarapa, Hawkes Bay, Manawatu, Rangitikei, Wanganui, and Taranaki districts at 6.45 a.m., and for Auckland aud Auckland district at 8 a.m. The city and suburbs receivers will not be cleared during the (lay, but the midnight clearance will bo made as usual v. Tho adverted times /or closing mails hj steamers »re liable to alteration (earlier or later) at any moment. The Parcel Mall per Main Twuik Express clo#e« at the- C.P.O. at 11 30 a.m.. and for the South )>er Perry Stunner at 6 p.m. Parcels for despatch by bteamecs and train* with the exception of the usual ferry hteamei's .Post.

OBlce, Wellington, one hour before tho advertised time of closing the mails. Ab the last clearance of the City receivers is made at 0 p.m. on Saturdays, All correspondence for the Sunday night Auckland express must b<s posted at the Chief tost Office not later than ti p.m. on Sunday. The public we earnestly refluented to tfeglstef all letters containing money or valuubte intended to be sent by post. i All books and sample packets and newspapers for places within the Dominion must be posted half au hour before the ordinary letter mail Clones, Unless otherwise specified, registered letters uhd parcely post paclcagets must be handed in and money orders obtained one hour before the ordinary mail clones. Alt the principal malls by train and steamer close at Te Aro and Courteuay-place Post Offices at the same hours a.s at the Chief Post Office, with tho exception that there is no latefee clearance, and that mails by the ferry steamer* for Southern Offices close at 6 p.m. Mails for Auckland and Auckland District ppr Second Main Trunk Kxprcbs close at CourtcnaylJlac.fi.Mt 6 p.m. and To Aro 8 p.m.