POST OFFICE NOTICES.

Otago Witness, Issue 3886, 4 September 1928, Page 38

POST OFFICE NOTICES.

Mails close at the Chief Post Office, Dunedin, as under. . WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5. Great Britain, Ireland, and Continent of Europe (specially addressed correspondence only); also all States ol SoutlP America, via Montevideo (per Mahana, from Auckland), by North Express, at 7 a.ni. Late-fee letters at Railway Station, 8.40 a.ni. ■ Australian» States, South Africa, and the East, via Sydney (per Ulimaroa, from Auckland), by North Express, at 7 a.m. Late-fee letters at Railway Station, 8.40 a.m. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6. Great Britain, Ireland, and Continent of Europe .(specially addressed correspondence only), <Cristobal (Panama canal), Central America, British, French, and Dutch Guiana, Venezuela, Republic of Columbia, Peru, Ecuador (per Ruapehu, from- Wellington), by North Express, at 10.15 a.m. Late fees C.P.O. 11 am. at ..Railway Station 11.30 a.m. Parcels close 3- p.m., 4th. • Fiji, Tonga, Apia, and Honolulu (per Tofua, from Auckland), by North Express, at 10.30 a.m. Late-fee letters at C.P.O. at 11 a.m.; also Railway Station at 11.30 a.m. . MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10. Rarotonga, Tahiti, United States, Canada, Central America. Great Britain, Ireland, and Continent of Europe, via San Francisco (per Makura, from Wellington), by North Express, at 7 a.m. Late-fee at Railway Station at 8.40 a.m. Mail' due in London about October 9. Parcels for American States, Rarotonga, .and- Tahiti close on Friday, September '7, at "3 p.m. ' - DAILY. Timaru, Christchurch, and West Coast. Sunday, 10 p.m, Monday to Friday. 7 J).m. ' Wellington and North Island Districts,' Christchurch, and all northern offices —Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, at ■10.45 a.m. Monday. Wednesday, and Friday at 7 a.m.. South Otago and Invercargill Districts.—Monday, Wednesday. Fridav. 7.30- a.m. and 10.45 aan., daily at 3.30 P.m Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 12.15 •■a.m. Monday, Thursday, Saturday, 5 a.m. Central Otago District. 6 a.m. F. W. Penlington, Chief Postmaster

In Mexico there grows a tree, called the “ Tree of Little Hands.” Its five pecu-liarly-curved pollen-bearing organs look like the fingers of a child. One of the pleasing features of the recent Gisborne Competitions was the pure English, and the pure vowel sounds which the elocutionary judge, Mr Thomas Harris, of Auckland, noticed in the performances he was called upon to adjudicate (states the Poverty Bay Herald). .Only here and there, he said in conversation with a reporter to-day, was there a trace of twang. The true value of the elocutionary section was the cultivation of good English," and, where the competitors were all good sports, as they were in Gisborne, they could win and lose without any harm being done.