POST OFFICE NOTICES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14087, 16 December 1907, Page 4

POST OFFICE NOTICES.

Mails closo at tho ChiA' Post Office, Dunedin, as under:— . Overland, Northern Porfv. Christchiirch, and intermediate offices daily, £.30 a.m. Lara letters, 7.40; also on tho mafl van up to 8 a.m. For Second Express for Waikonaui, Palmerston, Oamaru. Waimatc, Tomuta, Timaru, Ashburton, Christchureh, at 12.40 p.m. . For Greyinoulh, Hokitika. ajid ; Monday. Wednesday, and Friday, at 10.45 p.m. For South Express Trains at 7.30 a.m. 5 p.m. Late-fee 'etlers must hear, in addition to the ordinary postage, Id. THIS DAY (MONDAY), DECEMBER 10. FEDERAL SERVICE. For United Kingdom, Continent of Europe, Australian States (via HobarO, Ceylon, India, China, Slraits ( Settlements, • Mauritius, South Africa, Mediterranean Ports (letters for the United Kingdom need not be specially addressed), per South Express, at 7.30 a.m.. to connect, with the Maheno at Blufi, 16th inst. Money orders close at 1 p.m., and registered letters at 5 p.m. on the 14th inst. Late letters S a.m. C.P.0., and vn tho mail vol' tip to 8.2 A a.m. Will close at tlic Blufi at 3.30 p.m. Duo in London 25th January. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17. For Lyttelton and Christchureh, per Mokoia, at 1 p.m. Late ■ letters 2 p.m. on board. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18. For Lyttelton and Christchureh, pel' Moeraki, at 2 p.m. Late letters 3 p.m. on board. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21. VANCOUVER SERVICE. For Fiji, Sandwich Islands, Fanning Island, Canada, United Slates of America, United Kingdom, Continent of Europe, etc., mil closo at this office at 12.15 p.m. Money orders and registered letters 11 a.m. on 21st inst- late letters 1.26 p.m. guard's vau, connecting with Vanoouver steamer at Fiji. Close at Auckland, per Hauroto, on 24th, at 5 p.m. Correspondence need not lie specially addressed. Due in London on 29th January. MAIL ARRANGEMENTS FOR CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS. Wednesday, December 25, and Wednesday, Jauuary 1, being postal holidays, all mails usually despatched on those days will closo on Tuesday, the 24th, and Tuesday, "Ist, at 8 p.m. A delivery will bo mad.o of town and suburban letters over the counter each Tuesday evening fronn 7 to 8 o'clock.

Sunday hours will be observed in the private box lobby on the 25th inst. and Ist pros. On Thursday (Boxing Day) the office will be open in all branches, except Money Order and Savings Bank, from 9 to 10 a.m. The usnal despatch of mails -will be made up fr> 8 a.m.. and one complete delivery will be made by tho letter carriers at 7.30 a.m. LETTER POSTAGE TO PLACES BEYOND NEW ZEALAND: On and after October 1. 1967, (he ratos of postage on letters and ietter-carcis at&rossed to placcs beyond New Zealand wi'l be as follons:— The United Kingdom, British .posseEsiass, and countries at present ii»Kcd ia list on page 3 of the Postal Ciuide:

Id for each ounce or fraction thereof; All other places, 2Jd for tlio first ouecc, ljd for each succefdiEg eunco er fraction thereof.

Mails for Australian States, United Kingdom, Continent of Europe, clozo at Auckland, per ZesUmdiii, on Monday, tho 16th inst., at 8.15 a.rn Mails from Melbourne for Durban- int) Capetown, per 'Wakool, December 17, via Adelaide; Miltiadeß, Bth January, via, Frenumtio; Earning. ]Gth January, via Adelaide; Medic, 29th January, via Albany. Mails for the United Kingdom and Continent of Europe, via Monto Video and Teneriffe, close at Wellington on December 19,! per Tor.gaTiro, and Dunediu, 18th inst. Parcel mail, 17lh inst., i p.m. Due in London oil tho 30th January. yf. Sr. 6z«me Soughs, Chief P«it«wut»i.