MAIL NOTICES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2692, 23 December 1909, Page 3

MAIL NOTICES.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24. For Auckland, per Wimmera, at 7.30 ip.m. Australia (due in Sydney January Ist), Tasmania, Ceylon, India, Straits Settlements, Cliina, 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.) 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 Inlands, and Japan, connecting with the s.s. IJauroto 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 branches, except money order and savings bank, from 9 a.m. foTO a.m. Receivers and posting b*xes 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 wilt be made 'by letter carriers on the afternoons of the 24th and 31st inst. On the 27th inst. one complete delivery iv 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 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.

•A mail for Napier,. Wellington, and South, per Fanny; will close at 11 a.m. to-day. * ’il - ‘ . .. ~ , Mails for China, : Japan, Straits Settlements, South Africa, Continent of Europe, and United Kingdom, close at Wellington, per s.s.l Moeraki, on Friday, 24th, at 2.30 p.m - ; . Mails for the Commonwealth of Australia only, via Sydney, per Kaiapoi, dose> at Greymoulih at 4 p.m. on Friday- 24th inst. v : Mails for Chatham Islands, per Ripple,, close at Lyttelton on Friday, 31st inst., at 4 ip.m. Money orders for places bevond New Zealand close 1 hour 30 minutes before he closing of the ordinary mail. In regard to places within the; t, colony, money orders and registered letters close 1 hour, and parcel post parcels 30 minutes before the ordinary mail. ■’ V ; w, H. RENNER, Chief Postmaster