MAIN TRUNK TRAINS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 13983, 12 February 1909, Page 5

MAIN TRUNK TRAINS.

THE THROUGH SERVICE.

NEW POSTAL ARRANGEMENTS.

The first train of the through Main Trunk wr vice will leave Auckland on Sunday next, at 9-15 p.m., arriving at Welling- ,„ ~i 25 p.m. on Monday, the passenXon a 1 gers, of course, pacing over the scenic portion of the line between five and seven £ nl , on the Monday. The first train up from Wellington will arrive at 6.58 a.m. on Tuesday, and it will pasts over the scenic portion of the line, between 9 and 11 nni. Thereafter the expresses will depart and arrive each day at these times, except that there will be no train leaving Auckland on Sat unlay nights, and no train arriving on Monday mornings. When the daily service by the Main Trunk line commences, next Sunday evening, postal sorting ears will be attached to trains. Mails for Southern offices will close at the chief post office at 8.45 p.m., while letters bearing an extra. Id as a late fee may be posted on the postal cars up to the time of departure of the trains (9.15 p.ro-J-The present contract for the clearance of street letterboxes does not provide for letters being taken up on Sundays;, so that persons posting correspondence intended for the South must either post at the chief poet office or. if in street receivers, prior to 5 P- 01 - on Saturday. The daily afternoon clearance of street letterboxes, which i 5 at present made between one and three pm., will in future be taken up between Jive and sever p.m.

Inward mails from the South will reach i Auckland about seven a.m., and as cor- 1 impendence will be sorted on the trains, j letters will be taken out by letter-carriers j on the first delivery, while private dox i ioiders will receive theirs on going to I business in the morning.

. On Sundays a few totters will be on j duty at the chief post office in the moiling, and private box holders may expect j to get '-heir letters on that day not later ! than noon. This will give business poopie an opportunity of replying to urgent correspondence by the Sunday night's j mail. AFTER TWENTY-FIVE YEARS. [BY TELEGRAPH.— ASSOCIATION.] Wellington. Thursday. .After about 25 years' work, the Public Works Department on Saturday will finally hand over to the Railway Department the last section of the North Island Main Trunk railway. Before this can be done an engineer from each Department has to inspect the work and certify to its proper completion. This process is now being carried out by Mr. C. J. McKenzie, representing the Public Works Department, and Mr. Lowe, representing the Railway Department.