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Post Offices HILLARY to HOFMEYR

HILLARY (STATION) (RAIL)
Union to Republic
Area: Durban

1 "RAIL" 2C "Blank?"   10.10.1922
(Putzel)
12.02.1924
(Aab)
 
2   2C "Bars + cross"   08.02.1929
(Aab)
??.05.1931
(Putzel)
 
3   2C "Cross"     01.11.1960
(Putzel)
   
4   2C "1"   Index 1 15.11.1960
(Putzel)
   

HILLBROW
Union to Republic
Area: Johannesburg

1   2C "JOHANNESBURG" 27 mm
Blocks on sides

First seen
11.08.1905
(Bas Payne)
Union 11.11.1949
(Bas Payne)
 
2   2C "JOHANNESBURG" 25 mm
No markings on sides
??.10.1927
(Aab)
12.06.1936
(Putzel)
 
3   2C "JOHANNESBURG"   25 mm
Dots on sides
12.06.1936
(Putzel)
13.02.1957
(Putzel)
 
4   2C "JOHANNESBURG"   27 mm
Dots on sides
12.06.1936
(Putzel)
1938
(Putzel)
 
5   2C "JOHANNESBURG"   25 mm

Last seen
27.07.1962
(Putzel)
1946
(Visser)
Republic  
6   2C "JOHANNESBURG" 29 mm

Last seen

(Putzel)
31.03.1960
(Putzel)
Republic  
7   PARCEL    
(Aab)
   

HILLCREST (STATION) (RAIL)
Union to Republic
Area: Durban

1   2C "NATAL" Dots on sides
Last seen
07.05.1901
(Aab)
07.05.1901
(Aab)
10.01.1915
(Putzel)
 
2   1C "Blank" Skeleton

New discovery
25.09.1928
(Aab)
   
3   2C "Blank" 25 mm 04.03.1920
(Putzel)
06.02.1929
(Aab)
 
4   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 1938
(Visser)
   
5   2C "Blank"   30 mm 22.03.1943
(Putzel)
   
6   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 1949
(Visser)
   
7   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 26.05.1953
(Putzel)
   
8   2C "NATAL"     04.07.1954
(Putzel)
29.12.1958
(Putzel)
 
9   2C "Blank"   29 mm 12.08.1957
(Putzel)
26.02.1958
(Putzel)
 

HILLEX
25.09.1939 to Republic
Area: Johannesburg

1   2C "Bars + cross" 26 mm

Last seen
18.08.1978
(Putzel)
27.10.1941
(Aab)
Republic  

HILLSIDE
Union to 01.03.1912
Area: Ficksburg

1   BONC "27" Allocated
Hillside
June 1906

Withdrawn
Hillside
Union
Union
(Aab)
 

HILLSKRAAL
25.12.1939 to 14.02.1949
Area: Port Elizabeth

Not recorded

HILLTOP
Union to 11.10.1955
Area: Bulwer

1   2C "NATAL" Dots on sides
First seen
01.10.1901
(Aab)
 
Union 09.02.1939
(Aab)
 

HILTON ROAD (WEG) (RAIL)
Union to Republic
Area: Pietermaritzburg

1   2C "NATAL" Crosses on sides
Last seen
02.01.1896
(Aab)
Union 23.03.1914
(Putzel)
 
2   1C "NATAL" First seen
11.03.1907
(Putzel)
Union 15.02.1915
(Aab)
 
3   1C "Blank"
Visser
Skeleton 13.02.1920
(Visser)
   
4   2C "Blank"   24.03.1923
(Putzel)
31.12.1943
(Putzel)
 
5   1C "Blank"
Visser
Skeleton 26.08.1947
(Visser)
   
6   2C "Blank" Longer name 16.04.1952
(Aab)
14.10.1960
(Aab)
 
7 "/-WEG" 2C "1" Index 1 22.12.1951
(Aab)
27.01.1959
(Putzel)
 

HIMEVILLE
Union to Republic
Area: Underberg

1   2C "NATAL" First seen
22.05.1908
(Putzel)
Union 21.01.192?
(Putzel)
 
2   2C "Blank"     21.07.193?
(Putzel)
   

HIPPOMERE
23.10.1933 to Republic
Area: Durban

1   2C "Blank"   20.08.1934
(Putzel)
05.11.1956
(Aab)
 

HLABISA
Union to Republic
Area: Zululand

(1)   2C "PROVONCE OF ZULULAND" First seen
02.12.1902
(Aab)

First seen
17.05.1910
(Aab)
     
2   2C "Bars + cross"     1932
(Putzel)
   

HLATIKULU SWAZILAND
Union to Swaziland
Post office from 1911

Using South African stamps up to 1 January 1933

HLOBANE (STATION) (RAIL)
Union to Republic
Area: Vryheid

1   1C "NATAL" First seen 13.06.1910
(Aab)
   
2   2C "NATAL"   26.05.1911
(Putzel)
16.04.1914
(Aab)
 
3 "RAIL" 2C "Blank"   ??.11.1915
(Aab)
12.09.1918
(Putzel)
 
4   2C "Bars + cross"   Square O 04.07.1919
(Putzel)
28.06.1923
(Putzel)
 
5   2C "Bars + cross" Round O 19.02.1925
(Aab)
28.02.1925
(Putzel)
 
6   2C "Bars + cross" 29 mm 30.01.1930
(Putzel)
09.08.1939
(Aab)
 
7   2C "Bars + cross"
Visser
Short thin bars 22.01.1955
(Visser)
   
8   2C "Bars + cross"
Visser
Long thin bars
(Visser)
   
9   2C "Blank" 26 mm 01.10.1949
(Aab)
02.08.1957
(Putzel)
 

HLOKOZI
Union to 01.06.1917
30.05.1921 to ca. 1928
04.02.1929 to Republic
Area: Ixopo

1   2C "Bars + cross" 27 mm 03.02.1912
(Aab)

(Putzel)
 

HLOLELA
05.06.1950 to Republic
Area: Bergville

1   2C "Cross"
Visser
  12.07.195?
(Visser)
   

HLUHLUWE (RAIL) (STATION)
05.05.1924 to Republic
Area: Zululand

1   2C "Blank" 25 mm 18.12.1934
(Putzel)
23.07.1956
(Putzel)
 

HLUKU
1953 to Republic
Renamed from Ihluku
Area: Harding

1   2C "Bars + cross"   25 mm

Last seen
19.05.1978
(Putzel)

12.01.1959
(Putzel)
 Republic  

HOBB'S HOPE
19.12.1955 to 11.02.1957
Area: Vryburg

Not recorded

HOBHOUSE
01.04.1912 to Republic
Area: Ladybrand

1   2C "S.AFRICA"   17.03.1914
(Aab)
26.02.1915
(Putzel)
 
2   1C "Blank"
Visser
Skeleton 01.09.1924
(Visser)
   
3   2C "Blank"   26 mm
smaller font
192?
(Putzel)
   
4   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 30.11.1934
(Visser)
   
5   2C "Blank"   04.12.1930
(Aab)
08.04.1957
(Putzel)
 
6   2C "Blank" 30 mm

Last seen
14.08.1978
(Putzel)
07.06.1960
(Aab)
Republic  

HODE
1953 to 18.05.1959
Renamed to Rode
Area: Kokstad

1   2C "Blank"   26 mm 26.11.1956
(Putzel)
   

HOEDSPRUIT
17.11.1952 to Republic
Area: On the border of te Kruger Park

1   2C "Blank"   26.01.1955
(Aab)

09.08.1959
(Chris
vd Spuy))
 

HOEKBERG
01.06.1911 to 01.10.1914
Area: Nylstroom

1   2C "TRANSVAAL"   11.10.1911
(Putzel)
09.01.1912
(Aab)
 

HOEKBRAND
29.08.1921 to 26.10.1953
Renamed from Baviaanskrans
Area: Klerksdorp

Not recorded

HOEKO
01.03.1912 to Republic
Area: Ladismith, Cape

(1)   2C "S.AFRICA" First seen
10.09.1961
(Aab)
     

HOEK-VAN-DEN-BERG
Union to 01.01.1913
01.07.1919 to 06.10.1952
Area: Montagu

1   2C "Bar"     1939
(Putzel)
   

HOEKWIL
08.12.1924 to Republic
Area: George

1   2C "Bar + cross"
Visser
  02.07.1951
(Putzel)
21.07.1960
(Visser)
 

HOETJES BAY
Union to 01.04.1917
Renamed to Saldanha
Area: Saldhana

1   1C "Dot"
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  12.07.1911
(Janeckova)
   
2   2C "Bars + cross"    
(Putzel)
   

HOEWAL
21.11.1927 to Republic
Renamed from Hoogewal
Area: Btits

1   2C "Bars + cross"     23.07.1934
(Putzel)
   

HOFMEYR
02.12.1912 to Republic
Renamed from Maraisburg, Cape
Area: ?

1   1C "CAPE" Skeleton
New discovery

(Aab)
   
2   2C "S.AFRICA"   01.01.1914
(Putzel)
28.06.1924
(Aab)
 
3   2C "CAPE"   ??.02.1929
(Putzel)
23.07.1935
(Aab)
 
4   1C "CAPE"   Skeleton 07.12.1929
(Putzel)
   
5   2C "Bars + cross" Wide M + R 1937
(Aab)
   
6   2C "Blank"   06.05.1945
(Aab)
1949
(Visser)
 
7   1C "CAPE"
Visser
Skeleton 25.10.1950
(Visser)
   
8   2C "Bars + cross" 26 mm

Last seen
09.05.1978
(Putzel)
17.04.1951
(Aab)
Republic