MAIL NOTICES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2684, 14 December 1909, Page 3

MAIL NOTICES.

.WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15. For Auckland, per Tarawera, 9 a.m. For Napier, Wellington, and South, per Wiinmera, 4 p.m. ; - For Australia (due in Sydney 22nd per Wimmera, 4 p.m; For Auckland (via Main Trunk line), December), Tasmania, Cay lon, India, Straits Settlements, China, Japan, and Philippine Islands, also Continent of Europe and United Kingdom, via Suez (due in London 21st January) connecting with. P. and 0. line at Wellington, per Wimmera, 4 p.m. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18. For Auckland, per Mokoia, 9 a.m. For Australia (due in Sydney 24th. December), Tasmania, Caylon, India, Straits Settlements, China, Japan, and Philippine Islands, per Mokoia, 9 a.m. For Sonth Africa (due in Capetown about 22nd January), per s.s. Medic, rfom Melbourne, per Mokoia, 9 a.m. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 19. For Napier, Wellington, and South, per Tarawera, 4 p.m: For Auckland (via Main Trunk line), per Tarawera, 4 p.m. For Vancouver and other parts of Canada, and United States of America, Hawaiian Islands, and Japan, also Continent of Europe and United Kingdom, via Vancouver (due in London January 26th), per s.s. Navua,' from Auckland (for specially-addressed correspondence only), connecting with s.s Moana at Fiji,-per Tarawera, 4 p.m.

CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS. Post Office.—Saturdays, the 22nd December and Ist January (Christmas Day and New Year’s Day) will be observed as close holidays. On Monday, the 27th inst (for Boxing Day) the office will be open in all branches, except money order and savings bank, from 9 a.iii. to 10 a.m. Receivers and posting boxes will be cleared on the evenings of Fridays, the 24th and 31,st inst. Mails usually despatched on Saturdays will he closed on the Friday nights, the 24th and 31st inst., at 7.30 p.m. On the 27th inst. the usual despatch of mails up to 8 a.m. will he made. Receivers and posting boxes cleared accordingly. A delivery will be made by letter carriers on the afternoons of the 24th. and 31st inst. On the 27th inst. one complete delivery by letter carriers will be made, leaving the office at 7.30 a.m. On Friday evenings the 24tli and 31st inst., a delivery of town letters will be made between 7 p.m: and 8 p.m. over the counter, and at parcels delivery wicket. Telegraph Office. —The following hours will be observed on Saturday (Christmas Day): 9.30 a.m. to 10 a.m., and 5 p.m. to 5.30 p.m. On Monday (for Boxing Day) and Saturday (New Year’s Day), 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and 7 p.m. to midnight. Telephone Exchange.—Hours as, usual —viz., 7 a.m. to 11 p.m.

The s.s. Hinemoa will leave Bluff on 14th inst. for Campbell Island. Mails for the island should reach Bluff prior to that date. Mails for the Commonwealth of Australia only, via Sydney, per Waipori, close at Westport on Wednesday, 15th December, at 9 a.m. Mails for Fiji. Canada, United States of America, United Kingdom, and Continent of Europe (connecting with Vancouver steamer leaving Fiji), per- Navua, close at ,Auckland on Wednesday, 22nd December, at 9.45 a;rn. (No special address required.) Mails for the United Kingdom and Continent of Europe, via Monte Video and Teneriffe. per Turakina,. close at Wellington on Thursday, 16th inst., at :1Q a.m. . Mails for the Commonwealth cf Australia, Ceylon, India, China, Japan, Straits Settlements/ also South Africa, Continent of Europe, and United Kingdom, per Ulimaroa, close at Wellington on Friday, 17th inst., at 2.30 p.m. The Wellington-Brindisi despatch of the sth November arrived at London on the night “of th</lOtli inst. Money orders for places bevond New Zealand close 1 hour 30 minutes before i,h closing of the ordinary mail. In regard to places within the colony, money orders and registered letters dose 1 hour, and parcel post parcels 30 minutes before the ordinary mail. W. H. RENNEII, Chief Postmaster