MAIL NOTICES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2689, 20 December 1909, Page 3

MAIL NOTICES.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22. For Auckland, (per Monowai, at 9 a .nl. For Naipier and South, per Mokoia, at 6 p.m. For Auckland (via Main Trunk), per Mokoia, 6 p.m. Australia (due in Sydney December 29), Tasmania, Ceylon, India, Straits (Settlements, China, Japan and Philippine Islands : also Continent of Europe and United Kingdom via Suez (due in London 30th January)/ connecting with the . Orient Line at Wellington, per Mokoia, 6 p.m. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24.

For Auckland, per Wimmera, at 7.30 .p.m.

Australia (due in Sydney January Ist), Tasmania, Ceylon, India, Straits Settlements, China, Japan, and Philippine Islands, iper Wimmera, at 7.30 p.m. ; “ '• ' - South Africa (due in Capetown about 29th January), per s.s. Moravian from Melbourne, .per Wimmera, at 7.30 p.m. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 26. For Napier and South, per Monowai, 4 p.m. For Auckland i(Main Trunk), per Monowai, 4 p.m. (Late fee letters 4.15 p.m.) SUNDAY, JANUARY 2. United States of America, Canada, West Indies, Central America, West Coast of South America, via San Francisco (due in London 7th February); also Samoa, Hawaiian Islands, and Japan, connecting with the s.s. Hauroto at Wellington, .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 branenes, 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 will be closed on the Friday nights, the’ 24th and 31st- inst.,/ at 7\30 p.m. On the 27tli inst. the usual despatch of mails up to 8 a.m. will be 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 letter" 'carriers -will dbe, made, Heaving 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 wicket. Telegraph Office. —The following hours will be observed on Saturday (Christmas Day)': 9.30.a.m. to 10 a.m., and 5 mm. 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.

Mails for the Commonwealth of Australia only, per Maheno, close at Auckland,. Monday, 20th December, at 6.40 ** Mails for the Commonwealth of Australia only via Hobart,'per Warrimoo, close at Bluff on Monday, 20th instant, at 6 p.m. ' _ , Mails for the United Kingdom and Continent of Europe, per Star of Scotland, close at Wellington on Tuesday, 21st"• instant ,at 2 p.m. Rest despatch for penny papers for United Kingdom. Mails for • Fiji/ »Canada, United States' of America; United Kingdom, and Continent of Europe (connecting with Vancouver >teamer leaving Fiji), per Navua, close at Auckland on Wednesday, 22nd December, at 9.45 a.m. (No special address required.) '

Money orders for places bevond New Zealand close 1 hour 80 minutes before he closing pf the ordinary mail. In regard to places within the colony, money orders ahd ' registered letters dose 1 hour, and parcel post parcels 30 minutes before the ordinary mail. W. H. RENNER, Chief Postmaster