MAIL ANNOUNCEMENTS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22613, 29 December 1936, Page 3

MAIL ANNOUNCEMENTS

INWARD OVERSEAS Australian mail, including air mail despatched from London on December I I, from Sydney by Awatea, via Wellington, will reach Auckland this morning. English mail due at Wellington from London by Tainui on Monday. Australian mail due at Auckland from Sydney by Awatea, via Wellington, on January G. English and American mail due at Auckland from Vancouver by Aorangi on January 17. OUTWARD OVERSEAS TO-MOHIIOW Australian States, Norfolk Island, Ceylon, India, China, Japan, Straits Settlements, South Africa, Egypt and Italy (also specially addressed letters for Great Britain, Ireland and Europe. Due London February 0. J'er Espcrance Bay, from Wellington. Letters close Auckland 1.30 p.m.; late fee, (J. 15 p.m. AIR MAIL CONNECTION Great Britain and Ireland, via Australia-Singapore-England Air Mail service, per Espcrance Bay, from Wellington; closes Auckland to-morrow, 4.30 p.m.; late fee, 0. 15 p.m. Due London January 18. INLAND DESPATCHES Air Mail for South Island Offices and Oishorne, Monday to Friday, 2 p.m.; Sunday to Friday, (I p.m.; Saturday, 2 p.m. Offices 'north of Helensville, Monday to Saturday, H. 30 a.m. Waikato, King Country, Thames, Bay of Plenty, Monday to Saturday, 8 a.m. Rotorua District, Monday to Saturday, » a.m. Waikato, King Country, Thames, liotorua, Bav of Plenty, and Southern Offices, Monday to Saturday, 1.30 p.m.; Sunday to Friday, letters only, 5 p.m. Wellington, Palmerston North, Wanganui, Wairurapa, and King Country Districts, daily except Sundayi; until January 5, 4 a.m. Pakatoa, Coromandel, etc., to-day, 12.30 p.m. Putiki and Onetangi, tiVday, 8 a.m. Awaroa and Cowes, to-da.v, 8.30 a.m. Mullet Point and Matakana Lower, to-day, 10.30 a.m. Mahurangi, to-day, 3.30 p.m. Surfdale, Oneroa, etc., to-morrow, 7.45 a.m. Mahurangi, to-morrow, 7.-15 p.m. HOLIDAY ARRANGEMENTS Thursday.—An over-counter delivery of town letters (registered as well as ordinary) will be made from the postmen's branch, first floor, Chief Post Office, between 7 and 8 p.in. A special clearance of street receivers in the city urea will he made at 0 p.ni., hut a night clearance will not be made. New Year's Day.—Will be observed as a close holiday. Mails usually despatched before 7.15 a.m. will close at -I a.m., and those after 7.15 a.m. at the latter hour, with the exception that mails for Southern offices for despatch by the limited express will close at the Chief Post Office, Auckland, at 5 p.m. Late fee, Chief Post Office, 0.15 p.m., railway station box, 0.50 p.m. Only parcels on which the express transit fee has been paid will he despatched. The night clearance of street receivers and the special clearance at 3 p.m. of suburban post offices will be made as usual. Saturday.—All branches will bo open for business. A morning delivery only will be made by postmen. J. P. P. CLOUSTON, Chief Postmaster.