MAIL NOTICES

Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 89, 13 October 1915, Page 6

MAIL NOTICES

Subject to necessary alterations mail* will close at the Chief Po3t Office as under :— For Wanganui New Plymouth; also Maoawatu, Rangitikei, and Taranaki Districts, pa Manawafcu train (Thorndon Station), daily, at 7.30 a.m.; mail van, 8.20 a.m. For 1 Wanganui; also Manawatu and Rangitikei Districts, per Manawatu train (Thorndon Station), daily, 3.15 p.m. For wairarapa District, per Wairarapa train (Lambton Station), daily, 6.30 a.m. 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. Wanganui, and Napier, per Main Trunk train (Thorndon station), daily, 12.20 p.m.; Chief Post Office, 12.35 p.m.; late-fee letter-box, Thorndon Eailway Station, 1.5 p.m. For Palmerston North, Napier, Wanganui, Auckland, and Auckland District, per Second Main Trunk train (Thorndon Station), daily (except Saturdays), 8 p.m. ; late-fee, 8.15 p.m. WEDNESDAY, 13th OCTOBER For Southern Offices of New Zealand, Westport, Greymouth, Hokitika, and Jteefton ; also Tasmania (to connect with Wimmera at Bluff), per Maori, 6.15 p.m. For Greymouth, Hokitika, and Reefton, per Ngakuta, 7.45 p.m. For Blenheim and Picton, via Blenheim, per I Opawa and Blenheim, 7.45 p.m. THURSDAY, 14th OCTOBER Parcel mail for South America, United Kingdom, and Continent of Europe, per Rimutaka, 9.30 a.m For South America, via Monte Video; Teneriffe; also United Kingdom and Continent of Europe (due London 25th November), per Rimutaka, 10.30 a.m. Correspondence for United Kingdom and Continent of Europe must be specially addressed per Rimvtaka. For Rarotonga, Tahiti, Penrhyn Islands, United States of America, Canada, 'Central America, West Indies, Mexico, United States of Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, British, French, and Dutch Guiana, via San Francisco; also United Kingdom and Continent of Europe (due London 14th November), per Maitai, 1 pjn. I (Money orders for Canada and United States of America must be obtained by 11 a.m.) Parcel mail for Australian States and the East, per Moeraki. 2.30 p.m. For Australian States (due Sydney 18th October), and Expeditionary Forces, Egypt, per Moeraki, 3.30 p.m. .For Ceylon, India, China, Japan, Straits Settlements, Egypt, South Africa, and Continent of Eiirope and United Kingdom, via Suez (due London 24th November), per Moeraki, 3.30 p.m. (Money orders must be obtained one hour before the advertised time of closing the mails.) (Correspondence for United Kingdom and Continent of Europe must be specially addressed.) SATURDAY, 16th OCTOBER For Tonga, Samoa, and Fiji, to connect with Talune at Auckland, per Main Trunk train, 12.20 p.m. The best despatch for correspondence addressed to the United Kingdom and Continent of Europe will be via San Francisco, closing at Wellington, per Maitai, on Thursday, Uth October, at 1 p.m. Mails for Australian States close at Bluff, per Wimmera, on Friday, 15th October, at 5 p.m. Mails for Tonga, Samoa, and Fiji, close at Auckland, per Talune, on Monday, 18th October, at 8.45 a.m. Mails for Australian States and South Africa, also Honolulu, Tanning Island, Canada, United States of America, Central America, Tnited States of Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, British, Dutch, and French Guiana, United Kingdom and Continent of Europe, close at Auckland, per Niagara, on Monday, 18th October, at 6 p.m. Late letters for mails beyond the Dominion cannot in future be posted on the steamer, but must be posted in the late-letter postingbox at the Chief Post Office up to the appointed time shown on the mail notice. The advertised time for closing mails by steamers are liable to alteration (earlier or later) at any moment The parcel post mail per Main Trunk Express closes at the C.P.O. at 11.30 a.m., and for the South per Ferry steamer at 5.45 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 As the last clearance of the city receivers is made at 5.45 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 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 AH the principal mails by train and steamer close at Te Aro and Courtenay Place Post Office at the same hours as at the Chief Post Office, with the exception that there is no late-fee clearance, and that mails by the ferry steamers for Southern offices close at 5.45 p.m. Mails for Auckland and Auckland district, per Second Main Trunk Express, close at Courtenay Place at 5.45 p.m. and Te Aro at 8 p.m. A. P. DRYDEN, Chief Postmaster