MAIL NOTICES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2698, 31 December 1909, Page 3

MAIL NOTICES.

' v FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31. «For Auckland, per Mokoia, 7.30 p.*m. For Australia (due in, 'Sydney, 6th January), Tasmania, Straits Settlements, China, Philippine Islands, per Mokoia, 7.30 p.m. ~ "• - ' For” South Africa (due in-Capetown*' about 6th per s.s. Wilennnia, from Mokoia, 7.30 p.m. 9 * SUNDAY, JANUARY 2.

United States of .America, Canada, West Indies, Central America, West Coast of South America, via San Fran.cisco (due in London 7th February); also Samoif; Japan, connecting with the sis. Hauroto at Wellington, per, Tarayvera, 4 p.m. For Nap;',er, Wellington, and South, per Tai'iawera, 4,p.m^ For Auckland (vie? the Main Trunk), per Tftrawera, 4 p.m../-

NEV YEAR HOLIDAYS. " Post Office Receivers .and posting b»xes ifilL be> cleared on the evening qf Friday, 31st inst. Saturday Ist January) 1910 (New Year’s ‘'©ay) will as a c!Bse holiday. Mails usually despatched on Saturday will be closed on Jvriday night, thes3jst inst., at 7.30 p.m. A delivery will’be vci2.de by*"'letter carriers on the afternorm of the 31st inst., and a delivery of I 'Town letters will be made between 7 p.m. apd 8 p.m. over the and at parcels delivery wicket. Telegraph Office. —The following hours will be observed on Saturday (New Year’s Day), 9 a.rri. to 4 p.m., and 7 p.n# to- midnight. Telephone Exchange.—Hours as ustfal —viz., 7.a.m. to. 11 p.m.

/Mails for Australia. Ceylon,., India, China, Japan, Straits Settlements, South Africa, Europe and UnitedJKingdom, close at Wellington on Eriday, 31st in&t., per,, s.s. Maraina, at 2.30 p.m/ Mails for Rarotonga, Tahiti, Pony rhyn, Aitntaki, 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 fowCanada and United States and best opportunity for United Kingdom and Continent of Europe after Friday despatch, 31st December. No special nddress required. Extended Notice.; —Mails for Chatham Islands, per Ripple, close at Lyttelton on Monday, 3rd January, at 4// p.m.* Mails for Tonga, Samoa, Fiji, and Niue now close at Auckland on Wednesday)' sth .January, at &45 p.m. The Wellington-Tahiti mail service, connecting at~ Tahiti with San Francisco service, has been extended up to May .next. The dates of despatch from . Wellington will be 4th January, Bth February, IGth March, 21st April, and 27th May. ■

Money “‘orders for places bevond Now Zealand cloße 1 hour 30 minates before •he closing of the ordinary mail, In regard to places within the colony, money ordere and registered letters close 1 hoar, and parcel post parcels 30 .minutes before,the ordinary mail. ; SohUouA ,J*JTjjRENNERy'/ / : : r Chief)Poethiastor.^