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Post Offices HOPE to HOUW HOEK

HOPE
02.05.1921 to 03.05.1952
Renamed to Afguns
Area: Vaalwater
1   2C "Bars + cross"   28.11.1945
(Putzel)		 ??.09.1951
(Aab)		  

HOPEFIELD
Union to Republic
Area: Malmesbury
1   2C "Bars + cross" First seen:
04.05.1903
(Frescura)		 Union 08.12.1913
(Frescura)		  
2   2C "Blank"
 		   27.11.1924
(Putzel)		    
3   2C "Blank"   16.10.1926
(Putzel)		 05.06.1936
(Aab)		  
4   1C "Blank"
Visser		 Skeleton 1927
(Visser)		    
5   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 21.04.1939
(Putzel)		    
6   2C "Blank"   08.07.1941
(Aab)		 18.08.1951
(Putzel)		  
7   1C "Blank"
Visser		 Skeleton 20.10.1954
(Visser)		    
8   2C "Bars"   Relief 01.08.1959
(Putzel)		    

HOPETOWN
Union to Republic
Area: On the road between Britstown and Kimberley
1   2C "Bars + cross" 25 mm

First seen:
07.09.1903
(Aab)		 Union 08.12.1913
(Frescura)		  
2   2C "Bars + cross" 28 mm
Gap between
Hope and Town		 11.09.1918
(Aab)		 21.08.1935
(Aab)		  
3   2C "Blank"
Ian
Paterson		 30 mm 12.12.1925
(Ian
Paterson)		 12.05.1926
(Putzel)		  
4   2C "Blank" 29 mm 22.10.1935
(Putzel)		 09.10.1954
(Aab)		  
5   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 1936?
(Putzel)		    
6   2C "Blank" 25 mm 29.04.1947
(Putzel)		 03.08.1959
(Aab)		  

HOPEWELL
Union to Republic
Area: Cookhouse
1   1C "CGH"     09.02.1926
(Putzel)		    

HORNSKOP
01.10.1913 to 01.03.1915
Area: Germiston
Not recorded

HORSTFONTEIN
01.06.1920 to 29.01.1923
Renamed from Annierust
Area: Klerksdorp
Not recorded

HOTAZEL
04.05.1959 to Republic
Area: Kuruman
Not recorded
Republic postmarks known

HOTOMSKLOOF
1940 to 03.08.1942
Area: Oudtshoorn
Not recorded

HOT SPRINGS
01.04.1920 to Republic
Area: Uniondale
1   1C "Bar"   28.12.1931
(Aab)		 31.01.1943
(Aab)		  

HOTTENTOTSKLOOF
Union to Republic
Area: Tulbagh
1   1C "CGH"   First seen:
27.01.1900
(Aab)		 Union 22.08.1914
(Frescura)		  
2   2C "Blank"   07.01.1937
(Putzel)		 1947
(Visser)		  

HOTTENTOTS RIVER
28.03.1928 to 24.08.1931
Area: Fraserburg Road
Not recorded

HOUMOED
01.03.1920 to 01.11.1943
Area: Kakamas
1   1C "Bar"     11.11.1920
(Putzel)		 20.04.1925
(Putzel)		  

HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT
Union to Republic
Area: Cape Town
1   1C "Blank" First seen:
11.07.1885
(Putzel)		 Union 31.10.1931
(Frescura)		  
2   2C-D "PARLEMENTSHUIS"   13.06.1925
(Aab)		 05.06.1952
(Aab)		  

HOUTBAAI (HOUT BAY)
Union to 1914 or 1915
01.06.1916 to Republic
Area: Between Cape Town and Noordhoek
1   1C "CGH" First seen:
??.04.1898
(Putzel)		 Union 25.03.1920
(Aab)		  
2   2C "Bars + cross"   1934
(Putzel)		 04.10.1949
(Putzel)		  
3 "HOUTBAAI" 2C "HOUT BAY"   Bilingual 07.09.1951
(Putzel)		    
4   2C "Blank" Houtbaai 18.03.1952
(Putzel)		 02.08.1952
(Aab)		  

HOUTBOSDORP (HOUTBOSCHDORP)
Union to Republic
Area: Between Pietersburg and Tzaneen
1   2C "Asterisk" First seen
15.09.1905
(Aab)		 Union 02.11.1940
(Putzel)		  

HOUTENBECK STATION
29.04.1935 to Republic
Area: Brandfort
1   2C "Blank"    
(Putzel)		    

HOUTKOP STATION
24.12.1945 to Republic
Area: Vereeniging
1   2C "Blank"     25.04.1952
(Putzel)		    

HOUT KRAAL (STATION) (RAIL)
Union to Republic
Area: De Aar
1   1C "Blank"
http://www.danica-janeckova.com 		First seen:
07.02.1891
(Aab)		 Union 20.06.1917
(Frescura)		  
2   1C "Bar"   05.09.1919
(Aab)		 1934
(Putzel)		  

HOUTRIVIER
01.12.1924 to Republic
Area: Louis Trichardt
1   2C "Blank"     1933
(Putzel)		    

HOUTVOLOP
26.01.1925 to 22.11.1926
Area: Bloemhof
Not recorded

HOUWATER
Union to 1911
Area: Britstown
1   2C "Bars + cross"     29.06.1911
(Frescura)		    

HOUWHOEK
Union to Republic
Renamed to Houhoek
Area: Caledon
1   1C "HOEK" First seen:
04.02.1891
(Frescura)		 Union 30.03.1926
(Aab)		  
2   2C "Blank"   Last seen:
08.09.1966
(Frescura)		 29.10.1960(Putzel) Republic