MAIL NOTICES

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 32, 9 February 1929, Page 12

MAIL NOTICES

Mails will close at Chief Post Office, Wellington, and (between 9.30 a.m. and 4.30 p.m.), at Post Offices, Te Aro and Courtenay Place, as under, except late fee:— SATURDAY, 9th FEBRUARY. / Nelson and Havclock, also letter mails, for Blenheim, Reefton, and Westport; also correspondence for the undermentioned bays, per oil launch at Havclock (Arahura), 5 p.m.; lato fee, 5.30' p.m.; at steamer, 7.15 p.m. (Bulwer,, Crall Bay, Elaine Bay, Hopal, Manaroa, Port Ligar, To Puru. Wakatahuri, Waltata Bay, also private bags for Homcjvood, Pohuenui, Okoha, Clova Bay, Waimaru, Brightlands, and Tjtirangi estate). ' ' Southern Offices of New Zealand (Maori), 6 p.m.; late fee, G. 45 p.m. (Late-fee box at gates to Ferry Wharf, 7.30 p.m.) MONDAY, 11th FEBRUARY. Great Britain, Ireland, and Continent • of Europe,, United States of America, Canada, Mexico, and West Indies, via Vancouver; also Fiji and Honolulu, per- Niagara at Auckland, 11.45 a.m.; late fee, 6 p.m. (Late-fee box outside Thorndon Station, 7 p.m.) ■ Money orders must Bo obtained by 11 a.m. Mail closes at Auckland 10 a.m. Tuesday; due London 14th March. Note. —Newspaper rato of postage to United States of America is V£d for each two ounces. Picton, Havelock, and Blenheim, via Picton (Tamahine), i.45 p.m.; lato fee, 2 p.m.; at steamer 2.45 p.m. Nelson and Havelock, also letter mails for Blenheim, Picton, Reefton, and Westport (Ngaio), 5 p.m.; late fee, 5.30 p.m.; at steamer, 7.15 p.m. Southern Offices of New Zealand (Wahine), 6 p.m.; lato fee, 6.45 p.m. (Late-fee box at gates to Ferry Wharf, 7.30 p.m.) TUESDAY, 12th FEBRUARY. . Parcel mails for Australian States and the East, per Makura, close at C.P.O. at 11 a.m. Australian States, Japan, China, Straits Settlements, and South Africa (Makura), 1 p.m.; late fee, 2 p.m.; at steamer, 2.45 p.m. THURSDAY, 14th FEBRUARY. Parcel mails for Great Britain, Ireland, and Continent of Europe; also Cristobal, close at C.P.O. at 11 a.m.

Great Britain, Ireland, and Continent of Europe; also Central America, British, French, and Dutch Guiana, Venezuela, Republic of Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Kio de Janeiro, Montevideo, and Buenos. Aires, via Cristobal (Port Hobart), 3 p.m.; late ffc,4 p.m. Mails reach London approximately 21st March. Correspondence per Port Hobart musf be specially addressed.

The best dispatch to Great Britain, Ireland, and Continent of Europe closes at' Wellington on Monday, 11th February, per It.M.S. Niagara, via Vancouver; duo London 14th March.

OUTGOING OVERSEA MAILS.

Mails for Great Britain, Ireland, and Continent of Europo (specially addressed correspondence only), also Central America, British, French, and Dutch Guiana, Venezuela. Republic of Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo, and Buenos Aires, via Cristobal, per Corinthic, close at Wellington on Friday, 15th February, at 3 p.m. (late fee C.P.O. 4 p.m.) •..■•-

INCOMING OVERSEA MAILS.

(Arrival times approximate only.) February . 9—S^S. Hororata, from London. For New Zealand: 350 bags mail, 575 parcel receptacles. • February 11—R.M.8. Makura, from San Francisco; English and American mail.

February 12— S.S. Maunganui, from Sydney Australian mail.

MAILS CLOSE DAILY,

Wairarapa District—3 a.m.; 6'a.m.; 3 p.m. (late fee, 3.15 p.m.)

Manawatu District—7.3o a.m.; 4 p.m. (late fee C.P.O.' 4.15 p.m.)

Rangitikel District—9 a.m. (late fee Ratlw»s Station 9.50 a.m.), 12.30 p.m. (late fee C.P.O. 1 p.m.. Railway Station 1.50 p.m.). 4 D.m: (late fee, C.P.O 4.15 p.m.)

New Plymouth and Taranakl District—9 a.m. (late fee-Railway Station 9.50 a.m.), 12.30 p.m. (late fee C.P.O. 1 p.m.. Railway Station 1.50 p.m.).

, Hawkcs Bay District—B a.m., 12.30 p.m. (lato fee C.P.O. 1 p.m., Railway Station 1.50 p.m.): 4 p.m. v(late fee C.P.O. 4.15 p.m.)

Wanganui—9 a.m. (late fee Railway Station 0.50 a.m.). 12.30 p.m. (late fee C.P.O. 1 p.m.. Railway Station 1.50 p.m.). 4 p.m., 6 p.m. '.. i , . ■ ■ ■■■ Napier—a a.m., 12.30 p.m. (late feo C.P.O.' 1 p.m., Railway Station 1.50 p.m.); 6 p.m.

Parcels mails, for Auckland and District— £ p.m. ' ■ .

Auckland ana District, also Talhape, Manga-n-eka. Ohakuue. Baetihi, 'Rangataua, Taumaru;nui,.Raurlmu, Thames, Rotorua, Wain!, Paeroa, Te Aroha. Morrinsvillo, Cambridge, Tauranga, Hamilton, Frankton Junction, Te Puke, and Palmcrston.'North. 12.30 p.m. (late fe« C.P.O 1 p.m., Railway Station 1.50 p.m.) Letter mails only per "Limited Express," Sunday to Friday, at sp.m. (late fee C.P.O. 6 p.m.; latefee box outside Thorndon Station, 7 p.m.) • '

Per "Daylight Limited," Monday to Saturday— Rongotea, Palmerston North, Marton, Taihapo, Ohakune, Taumarunui, Te Kuitl. Frankton Junction, and Hamilton—C.P.O., 6 a.m.; late-feo box outside Thorndon Station, 7.40 .a.m.

R. H. BOTD," Chief Postmaster. Saturday,. Stli Fehruary, 1929.

People in Hendon recently watched two airmen playing noughts and crosses in the sky. The white smoke from the tails of the aeroplanes showed clearly against the blue sky as the pilots darted to and fro putting their noughts and crosses in the squares, also, made of smoke.