THE EASTER HOLIDAYS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14325, 22 March 1910, Page 6

THE EASTER HOLIDAYS.

POSTAL AND RAILWA* SERVICES. A close , holiday is to be observed on Good Friday, and mails usually despatched on 5 that; day will A close on the previous evening at 7.45 o'clock. On Easter Monday i all post offices, and branches will be open j ■only from nine a.m. till 10 a.m., while all j mails for despatch will close at eight a.m. There will be ft clearance of street letterboxes at rhidriight^bnSunday.' The letter- | carriers will make their usual rounds on Saturday ■ afternoon, while '• counter deliveries of town letters will be made on Thursday and Saturday, Between seven p.m. and eight p.m. ; Letter-carriers will not be on duty on Easter Monday. The itsue of railway, excursion tickets for-the Easter holidays commence at all. stations io-day, and will continue until Easter Monday. The tickets are available | for return up to April 26. - An extra ex-j press' train will leave Auckland for Wei- j lington daily, with the exception of Sunday, at 10.25 a.m. from to-morrow, until Tuesday j next. An extra express will also leave Wellington for Auckland at> 8.55 p.m. | daily (Saturday excepted), between the j same dates. In connection with the usual i night excursion ; to Rotorua, a special train j will leave Auckland at 10 p.m. .on Thurs- i day, leaving Rotorua on the return at 7.15 p.m. on Easter Monday. A special excursion train will leave Auckland for Te j Aroha at 6.45 a.m. on.Good Friday, leav- ! ing the latter town on return at 4.30 p.m. Trains will run at intervals between Auckland and Ellerslie on Eacter* Saturday, Easter Monday arid Tueeday next for 'the Auckland Racing Club's Autumn Meeting. Further train arrangements are being advertised. < ;' , t v' ; : ? The .Northern Steamship ; Company announce reduced .fares for Easter to Thames, Paeroa, and Coromandel, aleo excursion trips to Kawou and Waiwora every Wedneeday. ; > ,-. ,'| .•„*'-,'•;