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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 548, 28 December 1928, Page 2

Mail Services

THIS DAY Wellington, Wanganui, New Plymouth, Palmerston North, Hastings and Napier (letters only), 5 p.m. Southern Offices of New Zealand (also Gisborne and Tokomaru Bay), 6.30 p.m. NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS, 1929 POSTAL BRANCH MONDAY, DECEMBER 31 An over-counter delivery of town letters (registered as well as ordinary) will be made from the postmen’s branch, first floor, between 7 and 8 p.m. A special clearance of all city letterboxes will be made at 6 p.m. TUESDAY, JANUARY 1 (New Year's Day) will be observed as a close holiday. All mails will close at 4 a.m., with the exception that those for Southern offices will close at 5.30 p.m. Only parcels on which the “Express Transit” fee has been paid will be dispatched. The midnight clearance will be made as usual. There will be no delivery by postmen. Late fee letters for Southern offices may be posted in the box at the entrance to the Railway Station platform, up to 10 minutes before the advertised times of departure of the express trains. TELEGRAPH BRANCH TUESDAY, JANUARY 1 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.; 7 p.m. to midnight. OUTGOING OVERSEAS MAILS Fiji, Tonga, Apia, Pago Pago, and Honolulu, per Tofua, Saturday, December 29, at 9 a.m. Parcels at 3 p.m., Friday. December 28. Great Britain, Ireland and Continent of Europe, Central America, Cristobal Panama Canal), per Main Trunk (Matakana from Wellington), Saturday, December 29, at 7 p.m. Correspondence for Great Britain, Ireland and Continent of Europe must be specially addressed “per Matakana.” Parcels, at 11 a.m. Friday, December 28. NOTE.—The best dispatch to Great Britain, Ireland, and Continent of Europe closes at Auckland, Monday, December 31, per R.M.S. Makura, via San Francisco. Due London January 29. Australian States, Straits Settlements, China, Japan and South Africa, also Norfolk Island, per Aorangi, Monday, December 31, at 3 p.m. Parcels at 11 a.m. Cook Islands, Tahiti, Canada, North America, West Indies, Great Britain, Ireland, and Continent of Europe, via San Francisco (to connect with Makura, at Wellington), Monday, December 31, at 5.30 p.m. , Due London January 29. Parcels for Cook Islands, Tahiti, and America, December 29, at 11 a.m. INCOMING OVERSEAS MAILS December 30: R.M.M.S. Aorangi, from Vancouver (375 bags English and American mail). December 31: S.S. Maunganui, from Sydney (Australian mail). SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1928. Wanganui, Palmerston North, Wellington, etc., 4 a.m. Whangarei. Dargaville, etc., 6.30 a.m. and 3 p.m. Ravvene, Kohukohu, Omapere, Opononi, Koutu, Waiotemarama, Waimamaku’, Weka Weka and Motukaraka (parcels only), 11 a.m. Sheffield P. 8., 12 noon. O’Brien P. 8., 32 noon. Surfdale, etc., 12 noon. Awaroa, Cowes, etc., 12 noon. Kawau, 12 noon. Turua, 7.45 p.m. New* Plymouth and Taranaki District Parcels at 3 p.m., 7.45 p.m. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1928 Wellington, New Plymouth, Wanganui Palmerston North. Hastings and Napier (letters only), 5.30 p.m. Southern Offices of New Zealand (also Gisborne and Tokomaru Bay), 5.30 p m WTVI. J. GOW. __ •«_. Chief Postmaster.