Page 32 - Jamaica PO Guide 1928

'26 POST OFI•'ICE GUIDE.

Kingslon (arrives and lerwes i\Joudny), Cri, tobol, Ca1lu.,gcua, Puerto Colombia,
·
Saula Mart·:•, Cristob!tl, T<in)(stou (arrives and l~nves SaLurd~y), New York (arrives
Thm-sdny)-:; I'OUnd voyMe of 22 days.
Durinv; the winter months ''weekly s~rvit'r is maintained between ;o./cw York, Cuba,
Jamaica, Pnnu:na, Costa Rica, Cub•~. ;ilpw )'ork-a round voyage of ;!:j days. (Mails
for Jamaica arc not conveyed to or fronl ~cw York by thc~c vcssc~.)
K~:w Yonll:-CunA-JAMAICA S~::nvtCI; : A cargo sle!lmcr leave$ New York every Saturday,
arriving following Friday ot· , 'ttturday.
N.~:w YonK-CunA-.lAMAICA-JlONDUilAS-GUATEMALA SERVICI•:: A steamer leaves Nc1T
York every other Bnturdrty culling nt lbe following port.s:-
Snolittgo, 1\ingslon (:mi1·cs and leaves Fridav), Puerto Cnstilht, Teln, Puerto Barrios
(anc.l Belize, mont.hly), Kingston (arrivt'S and leaves Wednesday), Santiago, New York
(amves Tuesday).
N~:w Onr.EAN's-CunA-.TAMAlCA St>nvrcE: A steamer leaves New Orleans every F riday
calliw( at Santiago, Kingston (arriving followiJlg Jo'riday), returning to Gulf port via.
CenLml American port. ·
B1us-ror.-W. I. I~LA.."DS-PANAMA-COSTA H.rcA-.J,,MAICA StmvJcr~ : An Elders aud F~·fTes'
stMmer lcnvc$ I3rL~tol every alternate Snturd:1y rallin~ at the follow in.~ ports:-
Darbados, Trinidad, Crislobnl, J,imou, Kingston (art'ives and IP:n-cs ~londay) Bristol
(arrives Sunday).
A steamer letwcs Bristol every Mondav calling at the following ports:-
Jiingston (arrives and lea.vPs 'l'ucsdr\y), Santa lVJnr·ta, I\in((sLon (arrive~ nml lcnves
Suud:~y), Bri~t.ol (arrives Montlr.y). Twice a month a ~teamer calls nL Trinidad and
Bnrba.dos on the homewArd voyage from JanmJca.
l~RISTOJrJ'AMA tCA·CosTA RrcA.-PA::"'A~IA S1:nvrcE: Au Elders and l~yffes' sl<'amer leaves
Bristol every alternate Monday calling at the following porLs:-
ICin.g~ton (arrives a nd h'!a1·es Monday,) J,irnon, Cri5t.obnl, Kingstorr (arrives :~nd leaves
Monday), Br·istol (arrives Monday)-a round vo~·agc of five weeks.
E lders and F'yff~s, Ltd. maintain a further ~ervice with the United Kingdom, but as
the sailing days nod routes of these boats vary somewhat according to the season of the
yenr their movements cannot be reduced to the precision of ~ schedule.
The following is the schedule of the Can:~dian Government i\1erchant !llarine mail-
canying steamers:-
0AKADA-DFJn~1UDA-NAS~AU-JAMAICA-BRI1'1SII HoNoUll.\S SEnvicl;: A stc:~mer leaves
Montreal every three weeks on Weduesdny. and calls at the following ports:-
l-la'l1ilton, Nassau, IGngston (arrives Thursda~·, leaves F riday), Belize, returning to
.Kingst-on on the following Friday and sailing same dny via Nassau and Bermuda for
Montreal (arrivin~ Friday), ~ round voyage of 31 days.
During the \\~nt.cr monl.hs the same schedule is mainlain~d el'ery three weeks except that
the steamers lMvc fl'Om Halifax on Saturdny and return thither on Tuesda~·, 31 days after,
.arriving and snilin)!: from Kin!(ston on the same day of the week as on the summer service.
A ste:1 mcr of the Di Giorgio Fruit. CorporaLion represented by the .Jamaica Fruit and
Shipping Co., Ltd., leaves I-Gugstou for Nt'W York every Tuesday; and an Atlantic Fruit
Company's ~teamer leave> ]>or1 Antonio for C\ew York or PhiladPiphi:1 c1·cr.'' Tuesday .
. \ \'EitAGE FnF.QJ;E:>:CY or t;EnvJcr·:s.
TI!•ceivals fr-orn. ---~-
Count ry. Dispatches I o.
lJ.S. of .\mer·ica Three c1·cry week { I) I Five e,·cry fortnight
Canada T wo every week. 1 do
United Kin~donr 1'wo every week (dir·cct and via I Three every week (direct and
N.Y.) I vh\ N.Y.)' ·
Canal Zone. Pan a- Three CI'Cry fortnigh t. One every wee!·
ma, Colombia j '·
and Costa Rica
Cuaternala nnd Two cl'ery lbree weeks I Two e\·ery three week
HondurM
9uba One ever)' week ___ I Three ev~ fortni~tht~ ----
( 1) 'J'wo frorn New York and one from ::\'ew Orleans.