MAIL NOTICES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2691, 22 December 1909, Page 3

MAIL NOTICES.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22. For Auckland, per Monowai, at 9 a.m. For Napier arid South, psr Mokoia, at 6 p.m. For Auckland (via Main Trunk), per Mokoia, 6 p.m. Australia (due in Sydney December 2S). 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, Cnina, Japan, and Philippine Islands, per 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 (Main Trunk), per Monowai, 4 p.m. (Late fee . letters 4.15 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.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 27th 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 afternoons of the 24th and 3lst inst. _ On the 27th inst. one complete delivery v letter carriers will be made, leaving tlie 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 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 II p.m.

{Mails for Fiji, United States of America, United Kingdom, and Continent of Europe (connecting with Vancouver steamer leaving Fiji) close at. Auckland on Wednesday, December 22nd,, at 9.45 a.m. No special address the Commonwealth of Australia, Ceylon, India, China, Japan, Straits Settlements, also South Africa, Continent' of Europe, and United Kingdom, per Moeraki, close at \Yellington on Friday, 24th inst., at 2.30 p.m. '' , . ' . Mails for Chatham Islands, per Ripple, close at Lyttelton on Friday, 31st' inst., at 4 (p.m. Money orders for places bevond ‘New Zealand close 1 hour 80 minutes before he 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. Hi RENNER, Chief Postmaster