MAIL NOTICES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2693, 24 December 1909, Page 3

MAIL NOTICES.

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, 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 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 Dav) the office will be open in all branches, ex-' cqpt money order and savings bank, from 9 a.m. to 10 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 will be made by letter carriers on the afternoons of the 24tli and 31st inst.' On the 27th inst. one complete deliveTy v 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. Mails for Australia, India* Ceylon, China, Japan, Straits Settlements, South Africa, Continent of Europe, and United Kingdom, close at Wellington, per s.s. Moeraki, on Friday, 24th, at 2.30 p.m . . Mails for the Commonwealth of Australia only, via Sydney, per Kaiapoi, close At Greymouth at 4 p.m. on Fndav, 24th inst. Mails for the Commonwealth of Australia only, via oer Wimmera, close at Auckland on Monday, 27th December, at 8 n.m. Mails for the Commonwealth of Australia onlv. via Hobart, per Manuka, close at Bluff on Tuesday, 28th inst-., at 6 n.m. Mails, for Rarotonga, Tahiti, Ponrhvn. Aitutaki, and Marquesas Islands, also Canada, United States of'America, United Kingdom, and Continent of Europe, via San Francisco, close at Wellington, per s.s. Hauroto, on Tuesday, January 4th, 1910, at 10 a.m.. Best opportunity for Canada and United States and best opportunity for United Kingdom and Continent of Europe after Friday despatch, 31st December. No special address required. / 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 L hour 30 minutes,before, be 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 minuteß before the ordinary mail. , W H. RENNER, Chief Postmaster