MAIL NOTICES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2686, 16 December 1909, Page 3

MAIL NOTICES.

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 South Africa (due in CapeloAvn about 22nd January), per s.s. Medic, rfom Melbourne, per Mokoia, 9 a.m. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 19. For Napier, Wellington, and South, per TaraAA’era, 4 p.mr For Auckland (via Main Trunk line), per TaraAA-era, 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. Noav Year’s Day) Avill 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.m. .to 10 a;m. Receivers and posting boxes will;'be. cleared on the evenings of Fridays, the 24th and 31st inst. Mails usually despatched on Saturdays Avill .be 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. Avill 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. ope •completed deliye/y. by letter carriers will be made, leaving the office at 7.30 a.m. On Friday evenings the 24th 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 Avicket. Telegraph Office.—The following hours will be observed on Saturday (Christmas Day): 9.30 a.m. to 10 a.m., and 5 n.m. to 5.30 p.m. On Monday (for Boxing Day) and Saturday (NeAv 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. Mails for Fiji. Canada, United States of America, United Kingdom; and Continent of Europe (connecting Avith Vancouver steamer leaving Fiji), per close at Auckland on Wednesday, 22nd December, at 9.45 a.m. (No special address required.) Mails for the United Kingdom and Continent of Europe, via Monte Video and TenerifFe, per Turakina, close at Wellington oil Thursday, 16th inst., at 10 a.m. , . . Mails for the Commonwealth of Australia, Ceylon, India, China, Japan, Straits Settlements, also South Africa, Continent of Europe, and United Kingdom, per Ulimaroa, close at-Welling-ton on Friday, 17th inst., at 2.30 p.m. Mails for- Norfolk Island, per May HoAvard, close at Auckland on. Saturday, 18th December, at 7 3.45 p.m. 9 Money orders for places beyond Neiv Zealand close 1 hour 30 minutes before. •I)p> closing of the ordinary mail. - In regard to - places within the colony, money orders and registered letters close 1 hour, and parcel post parcels 30 minutes before the ordinary mail. W. H. RENNER, Chief Postmaster