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Post Offices HEKPOORT to HENNOPS RIVER

HEKPOORT
Union to Republic
Area: Magaliesburg
1   2C "Blank" First seen
11.10.1906
(Bas Payne)		 Union 30.12.1957
(Aab)		  

HEKPOORT WES
06.05.1957 to ca.1958
16.05.1960 to Republic
Renamed from Foothills (1957)
Area: Magaliesburg
1   2C "Blank"     1958
(Putzel)		    

HELDERBERG
Union to 28.11.1944
Area: Somerset West
1   1C "CGH" First seen:
10.06.1899
(Putzel)		 Union 25.06.1935
Putzel)		  
2   2C "Blank"   30 mm 29.05.1941(Putzel)    

HELDINIA
03.11.1923 to 03.01.1927
1928 to 14.05.1956
Renamed from Koperfontein
Area: Magaliesburg
1   2C "Blank"   29 mm
(Putzel)		    

HELLA HELLA
Union to 01.11.1914
Area: Ixopo, Natal
1   2C "Bars + cross"     1913
(Putzel)		    

HELLING
01.11.1954 to Republic
Area: Johannesburg
1   2C "Bars + cross" Short bars

Last seen
01.08.1962
(Putzel)		 18.10.1957
(Aab)		 Republic  

HELLPOORT
Union to 1911
Area: Grahamstown
Not recorded
CGH postmark known

HELPMAN
30.06.1947 to 27.06.1949
Area: Bloemhof
Not recorded

HELPMEKAAR - NATAL - (HELPMAKAAR)
Union to Republic
Area: Dundee
1   2C "NATAL" Dots on sides
Helpmakaar
First seen
04.01.1901
(Aab)		 Union 16.03.1911
(Aab)		  
2   1C "?"
Visser		 Helpmakaar
Skeleton		 1911
(Visser)		    
3   2C "Bars + cross" Helpmakaar 17.04.1912
(Visser)		 1913
(Visser)		  
4   2C "S.AFRICA"   Helpmakaar 09.05.1913
(Aab)		 ??.03.1917
(Putzel)		  
       
5   2C "Blank"   Helpmekaar 1927
(Putzel)		    
6   1C "Blank"   Helpmekaar
Skeleton		 27.05.1932
(Putzel)		    

HELPMEKAAR - OFS -
Union to 09.01.1922
Renamed to Steunmekaar
Area: Jagersfontein
1   BONC "37" Allocated
Helpmekaar
November 1904

Withdrawn
Helpmekaar
 Union		      
2   2C "O.F.S.   O.V.S."
Visser		   18.04.1919
(Visser)		    

HELVETIA - OFS -
Union to 13.03.1961
Area: Smithfield
1 "S.O." 2C "O.R.C."   15.04.1914
(Aab)		 1952
(Visser)		  

HELVETIA - TRANSVAAL -
Union to ca. 1911
Renamed to Helvetia North
Area: Machadodorp
Not recorded

HELVETIA NORTH (HELVETIA NOORD)
ca. 1911 to 19.05.1952
Renamed from Helvetia
Area: Machadodorp
1   2C "S.AFRICA"
Visser		   1936
(Visser)		 1938
(Visser)		  

HEMLOCK
29.10.1928 to Republic
Area: Machadodorp
1   2C "Bars + cross"     17.10.1939
(Putzel)		    

HENBYL
24.01.1955 to Republic
Area: Vanderbijlpark
1   2C "Bars + cross"   17.11.1958
(Aab)		 03.02.1961
(Aab)		  

HENDERSON'S
Union to 01.12.1914
Area: Cathcart
1   1C "CGH"   First seen:
28.12.1890
(Putzel)		 Union 14.10.1913
(Aab)		  

HENDRIKSDAL
31.08.1925 to Republic
Area: Sabie
1   2C "Blank" 30 mm 23.02.1931
(Putzel)		 17.08.1942
(Putzel)		  
2   2C "Blank" 25 mm

Last seen
11.08.1978
(Putzel)		 15.01.1945
(Aab)		 Republic  

HENDRINA
01.08.1916 to Republic
Renamed from Dewittekrans
Area: Middelburg, Transvaal
1   2C "Blank" 28 mm 18.11.1917
(Aab)		 17.07.1929
(Aab)		  
2   1C "Blank"
Visser		 Skeleton 1927
(Visser)		    
3   2C "Blank" 26 mm
Narrow A		 18.09.1933
(Putzel)
(Aab)		  
4   2C "Blank" 26 mm
Wide A		 01.04.1939
(Putzel)		 22.08.1947
(Aab)		  
5   2C "Blank"   29 mm
Name ends below
date		 29.06.1952
(Putzel)		    

HENKIESVLEI
16.08.1954 to 16.01.1956
Renamed from Vlakplaas
Area: Vereeniging
Not recorded

HENLEY ON KLIP
Union to Republic
Area: Vereeniging
1   2C "TRANSVAAL"   03.04.1914
(Bas Payne)		 06.08.1937
(Bas Payne)		  
2   1C "Blank"
Visser		   1940
(Visser)		    
3   2C "Blank"     29.12.1953
(Putzel)		    

HENNENMAN
19.09.1927 to Republic
Renamed from Ventersburg Road
Area: OFS
1   2C "Blank"   04.11.1928
(Putzel)		 10.11.1936
(Aab)		  
2   2C "Blank"   11.01.1943
(Putzel)		 29.09.1952
(Aab)		  
3   1C "Blank"
Visser		 Skeleton 14.02.1946
(Visser)		    
4   2C "Blank" Smaller font

Last seen
26.01.1978
(Putzel)		 1952
(Putzel)		 Republic  
5   2C "Blank"   Larger font 31.03.1954
(Putzel)		 Republic  
6   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 05.12.1957
(Visser)		    

HENNING (SIDING)
Union to Republic
Area: Steynsburg
1   1C "CGH" First seen:
09.02.1899
(Frescura)		 Union 02.07.1935
(Aab)		  
2   2C "Bars + cross"   02.02.1937
(Putzel)		 01.10.1945
(Aab)		  
3   2C "Bars + cross"   29.06.1955
(Aab)		    

HENNOPSRIVIER (RIVER)
July 1910 to Republic
Area: Pretoria
2   2C "TRANSVAAL"
Visser		   23.03.1943
(Visser)