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Post Offices BETHULIE to BIALA

BETHULIE
Union to Republic
Area: Southern Free State on the Orange River
1   2C "Blank" ORC removed 21.06.1912
(Aab) 		 19.07.1913
(Aab) 		  
2   1C "Blank"
Visser		 ORC removed (Visser)     
3   2C "Bars + cross" New discovery 20.06.1914
(Aab) 		    
4   2C "Blank" South Africa
above and below
Date		 19.12.1915
(Putzel)		 22.06.1921
(Aab)		  
5   2C "Blank" Thick bars on sides 30.01.1923
(Hamilton)		 26.06.1928
(Visser)		  
6   2C "Blank" 26mm
Shorter letters
(H and U)		 29.08.1927
(Aab)		 25.02.1932
(Putzel)		  
7   2C "Blank"
Visser		 Skeleton 05.12..1929
(Visser)		    
8   2C "Blank" 28mm
Longer letters
(H and U)		 01.11.1933
(Aab)		 19.07.1943
(Aab)		  
9   2C "Blank"   05.12.1945
(Aab)		 15.08.1949
(Aab)		  
10   2C "Blank" Longer last "E"
Wider "U"

Last seen:
27.01.1962
(Putzel)		 08.09.1955
(Aab)		 Republic  

BETJIESKRAAL (BETJESKRAAL)
02.02.1925 to 17.05.1937
Area: Cradock
Unknown

BETTIESDAM
08.09.1952 to 12.08.1953
01.08.1955 to Republic
Renamed from Hoogekraal
Area:  Morgenzon (Between Ermelo and Standerton)
Unknown

BETTY STREET, JOHANNESBURG
Union to 01.10.1914
23.01.1925 to about 1930
Area: ?
1 "TSO" 2C "JOHANNESBURG" First seen:
22.11.1909
(Putzel)		 Union 23.08.1912
(Aab)		  
2   2C "?"
Putzel		   24.07.192?
(Putzel)		    

BETTY'S BAY
02.10.1944 to Republic
Area: Between Gordon's Bay and Hermanus
1   2C "Blank"
Visser		 31 mm 04.06.1948
(Visser)		    

BEUKESPLAATS (BEUKESPLAAS)
01.08.1915 to 20.08.1956
Area: Fraserburg
From 1953 Beukesplaas
1   2C "Blank"     11.10.1933
(Putzel)		    

BEVISTON
21.09.1925 to 10.06.1930
Area: Warmbad
1   2C "Blank"     10.06.1930
(Putzel)		    

BEWAARKLOOF
26.08.1929 to 20.06.1932
25.01.1954 to Republic
Area: Pietersburg in the Wolkberg Mountains
1   2C "Blank"   26mm 16.09.1931
(Putzel)		    
2   2C "Blank" 28mm
Last seen
08.08.1978
(Putzel)		 10.01.1956
(Aab)		 Republic  

BEWLEY
01.09.1918 to 01.08.1960
Area: Zeerust
1   2C "Bars + cross"   19.06.1919
(Putzel)		 03.01.1937
(Aab)		  

BEZUIDENHOUTSKRAAL
02.09.1940 to Republic
Area: Pretoria
1   2C "Blank"
 		  
(Aab)		 19.10.1946
(Putzel)		  

BEZUIDENHOUTS VALLEY (VALEI)
Union to Republic
Area: Johannesburg suburb
1   2C "JOHANNESBURG" 27mm
Dots on sides

First seen
19.08.1907
(Aab)		 Union 05.06.1929
(Aab)		  
2   2C "JOHANNESBURG"   32mm
No dots on sides		 11.06.1936
(Putzel)		    
3   1C "JOHANNESBURG"
Visser		 Spelt
BEZ VALLEY

Skeleton		 1938
(Visser)		    
4   2C "(JOHANNESBURG)" 26mm
Johannesburg in brackets		 09.08.1939
(Aab)		 09.02.1951
(Putzel) 		  
5   2C "JOHANNESBURG"   28mm
Spelt Vallei		 ??.07.1956
(Putzel)		    
6 "JH" 2C "Blank"   Last seen
06.08.1962
(Putzel)		 13.05.1959
(Putzel)		 Republic  

BHOVA
24.04.1961 to Republic
Area: Mtubatuba, Zululand
Unknown

BIALA
05.09.1927 to 17.03.1941
26.11.1942 to 02.06.1952
Area: Mtubatuba, Zululand
1   2C "Bars + cross"     28.05.1931
(Putzel)		    
2   1C "Blank"
Visser		 Skeleton 26.11.1942
(Visser)		    
3   2C "Cross"     25.04.1946
(Putzel)