MAIL NOTICES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2696, 29 December 1909, Page 3

MAIL NOTICES.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31. For Auckland, per Mokoia, 7.30 p.m. . For Australia (due m, Sydney 6th January), Tasmania, Ceylon, India, Straits Settlements, China, Japan, and Philippine Islands, per Mokoia, 7.30 p.m. For South Africa (due in Capetown about 6th February), per s.s. Wilcannia, from Melbourne, per Mokoia, (.30 P ' ln ‘ 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. , , For Napier, Wellington, and South, per Tarawera, 4 p.m. For Auckland (via the Main Trunk), per Tarawera, 4 p.m. NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS. Post Office Receivers t and posting b*xes will be cleared on the evening of Friday, 31st inst. Saturday Ist January, 1910 (New YearV Day) will be. observed as a close holiday. Mails usually despatched on Saturday will be closed on Friday night, the 31st inst., at 7.30 p.m. A delivery will be made by letter carriers on the afternoon of the 31st inst. ; and 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 (New Year’s Day), 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and 7 p.m. to midnight. Telephone Exchange.—Hours as 1 usual —viz., 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. Mails for the United Kingdom and Continent of Europe, via Monte Video and Teneriffe and Rio de Janeiro, per Athenic, close at Wellington on Thursday, 30th inst., at 10 a.m. Mails for Rarotonga, Tahiti, Penrhyn, 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 Australia, Ceylon, India, China, Japan. Straits Settlements, South Africa, Europe and United Kingdom, close at Wellington on Friday, 31st inst., per s.s. Marama, at 2.30 p.m. „ Extended Notice.—Mails for Chatham . Islands. per Riople, close at Lyttelton on Monday, 3rd January, at 4 p.m. , ’ ■ " Mails for Tonga, Samoa, and Fiji per Atua, close at Auckland on Tuesday, January 4th, at 8.45 a.m. Money orders for places bevond New Zealand cloße 1 hour 30 inmates before . lie closing of the ordinary mail. In regard to places within the colony, money orders and registered letters close 1 hour, and parcel post pnreels 30 minutes before the ordinary mail. W JT. RENNER, Chief Postmaster