MAILS CLOSE TO-DAY

New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11659, 25 October 1923, Page 12

MAILS CLOSE TO-DAY

Please assist the Post Office by posting your correspondence frequently during the day.

Australian States; Ceylon, India, China, Japon, Straits Settlements, Egypt and South Africa; also Apia, Pago Pago, and Honolul i, per Manuka,; from Auckland, Main Trunk train—lo.4s a.in., noon. NOTE. —Postage on letters for Austra? Ha is Id per ounce. Parcel mail for Papeete and Central America clsoe C.P.O. at 11 a.m. Kaikoura, per Wakatu —2.45 D.m., 3 p.m. Blenheim, Havelock, and Picton, via Blenheim, pe~* Echo—2.4s p m.. 3 p.m. Parcel mail for Australian State* and the East closes C.P.O. at 3 p.m. Papeete, Central America, British, French, and Dutch Guiana, Venezuela, Republic of Columbia, Peru, and Ecuador, per Ling Nam —8 p.m., 4 p.m. Nelson, Havelock and Blenheim, pm Ngaio—s p.m., 5.15 p.m Southern Offices of New Zealand, also mails and all parcels for Greymouth and Hokitika, and ordinary parcels for Reefton, also Koikoura, per Mararoa — 6 p.m., 6.45 p.m. FRIDAY. Austialian States; Ceylon, India, China, Japan, Straits Settlements, Egypt, and South Africa, via Newcastle, per Waikawa—lo a.m.. 11 a.in. Chatham Islands, per Tees, at Lyttelton, per Maori—6 p.ui., 6.45 p.m. TUESDAY. Parcel mails for America, Rarotonga and Tahiti close C.P.O. at 11 a.m. United Kingdom, Continent of Europe United States of America, Canada, Mexico, West Indies, via San Francisoo, per Tahiti—l p.m., 2pm Mail due London about December 3rd. Money-orders must be obtained by 11 a.m Cook Islands (including Rarotonga, Aitutaki, Mauke, Atiu, Manihiki, Penrhyn, Mangaia); also Tahiti, per Tahiti—l n m., 2 p.m. Money-orders must be obtained by 11 a.m. NOTE.—Newspaper rate of postage to United States of America is Id for the first fo*r ounces and $d for each succeedipg two ounces. OUTGOING OVERSEA MAILS Mails for United Kingdom and Continent of Europe (spec* »lly addressed correspondence only), also Monte Video and Teneriilo, per T&inui, close at Wellingon Friday, November 2nd, at 4 p.m. Mails which left Auckland on August 7th. per R.M.S Makura, via Vancouver, arrived at London on September Bth; also mails which left Wellington on August 28th, t>er R.M.S. Tahiti, via San Francisco, arrived at London on September 28th. INCOMING OVERSEA MAILS. (Arrival dates approximate only.) R.M.S. Maunganui Hft San Francisco for Wellington on October 19th. She c&rriesi 2658 bags of mail (including 2160 bags mail from United Kingdom) and 1055 parcel-receptacles for New Zealand; due November Bth. R.M.S. Niagara left Suva on October 23rd for Auckland. She carries 351 bags mail for Wellington; mail due here October 27th. MAILS CLOSE DALLY. Southern Offices, per ferry steamer, 4 p.m. Palmerston North, Wanganui, and Rangitikei districts, 7.90 a.m., 11.20 a.m., 3 p.m., 4.30 p.m. New Plymouth and Taranaki district, 7.30 a.m., 11.20 a.m. Manawratu district, 7.30 a.m. and 3 pm., late fee 3.15 p.m. Wairarapa district, 3 a.m., 8 a.m., 3 p.m., late fee 3.15 p.m. Napier and Hawke’s Bay district, a a.m.. 11.20 a.m., 8 p.m., 4.30 p.m. Auckland and district, 11.20 a.xn., late fee C.P.O noon, railway station 12.40 p.m. Parcel mail for Auckland and district, 8 p.m.

F. W. PENLINGtON, __ Acting-Chief Postmaster. Chief Poet office, Wellington, October 25th, 1923.