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Post Offices HOWARD to HYMANSPOST

HOWARD
08.06.1942 to 02.10.1950
Renamed to Radinotshe
Area: Barkly West
1   2C "Bar"   10.11.1944
(Aab)		 21.08.1945
(Visser)		  

HOWARD PLACE
28.12.1953 to Republic
Area: CapeTown
1   2C "Bar"   Modern relief
(Putzel)		    

HOWICK
Union to Republic
Area: Pietermaritzburg
1   2C "NATAL" Dots on sides

First seen
25.10.1901
(Putzel)		 Union 13.05.1911
(Aab)		  
2   2C "Blank"   25.08.1914
(Aab)		 30.08.1950
(Putzel)		  
3   2C "Cross"  
(Aab)		 20.01.1958
(Visser)		  
4   2C "T"   24.09.1957
(Putzel)		 06.01.1958
(Aab)		  
5   2C "Bar"   Modern relief ??.08.1959
(Putzel)		    

HOWICK RAIL
Union to 01.11.1911
Renamed to Merrivale
Area: Howick
Not recorded
Natal postmarks known

HOWIESONS POORT
October 1922 to 1929
Area: Grahamstown
Not recorded

HUGO SIDING
Union to 01.01.1911
Area: Touws River
Not recorded

HUEGENOT
Union to 01.10.1914
October 1922 to Republic
Area: Paarl
1   2C "Bars + cross" First seen:
24.10.1906
(Frescura)		 Union 18.01.1934
(Aab)		  
2   2C "Blank"     ??.09.1935
(Putzel)		    
3   1C "Blank" Skeleton 02.07.1935
(Aab)		 15.07.1935
(Putzel)		  
4 "PAARL" 2C-D "(HUGUENOT)"     16.10.1936
(Putzel)		    
5 "HUGUENOT" 1C "Blank" Skeleton  12.02.1937
(Aab)		 13.02.1937
(Aab)		  
6 "(HUGUENOT)" 2C "Blank"   31.10.1938
(Aab)		 28.08.1945
(Aab)		  
7   2C "Bar"   27.11.1941
(Aab)		 09.05.1949
(Putzel)		  
8   2C "Blank" Last seen:
02.06.1969
(Putzel)		 14.10.1954
(Aab)		 Republic  
9 "HUGUENOT" 1C "Blank"
Visser		 Skeleton 14.08.1945
(Visser)		    
10 "(HUGUENOT)" 2C "Blank"   1946
(Visser)		 1957
(Visser)		  
11   2C "2"   Index 2 22.03.1961
(Putzel)		    
12 "(HUGUENOT)" 2C "BETAALD
SUID AFRIKA"
Visser		   03.06.1955
(Visser)		    
13   PARCEL    
(Aab)
(Putzel)		  

HUKUWA
01.11.1926 to  to 29.11.1937
26.09.1938 to Republic
Area: Queenstown
1   2C "Bars + cross"   Thick bars
 
(Putzel)		    
2   2C "Bars + cross"   Thin bars
 		 29.11.1950
(Putzel)		    

HUMANSDORP
Union to Republic
Area: Village 90 km west of Port Elizabeth

1   2C "Bars + cross" Type 2


First seen:
22.12.1906
(Aab)
 		 Union 24.11.1913
(Aab)		  
2   2C "Blank" 30 mm 18.10.1916
(Ian
Paterson)		 10.09.1941
(Putzel)		  
3   2C "Bar"   16.02.1926
(Putzel)		 20.07.1937
(Bram
 Leeflang)		  
4   1C "Blank" Skeleton 17.05.1927
(Visser)		    
5   2C "Blank" 26 mm 10.01.1930
(Aab)		 31.12.1942
(Putzel)		  
6   2C "Blank" 28 mm 28.01.1943
(Aab)		 13.10.1948
(Aab)		  
7   2C "Blank"
 		 26 mm
10 to 2 O'clock		 09.02.1956
(Putzel)		    
8   2C "Blank"
 		 25 mm
9 to 3 O'clock		 03.05.1960
(Putzel)		    
9   PARCEL  
 		  
(Visser)		    

HUMEFIELD
05.12.1927 to 22.01.1934
Area: On railway between Port Elizabeth and Graaff Reinett
1   2C "Blank"
 		   1932
(Putzel)		    

HUMEWOOD
01.01.1913 to 01.03.1913
01.02.1919 to Republic
Area: 3 km east of the city of Port Elizabeth
1   2C "S,AFRICA"   14.06.1949
(Aab)		 26.10.1957
(Putzel)		  
2 "P.E." 2C "Blank"   28 mm 1958
(Putzel)		    
3 "P.E." 2C "Blank"   31 mm

Last seen:
15.08.1978
(Putzel)		 14.01.1954
(Putzel)		 Republic  

HUNTLEIGH
29.05.1933 to 19.07.1954
Area: Messina
1   2C "Blank"   30 mm 31.10.1936
(Putzel)		    

HURLPARK
08.11.1954 to Republic
Area: Johannesburg
Not recorded
Republic postmarks known

HUSFELDT
19.01.1925 to 04.05.1959
Area: Wolmaransstad
1   2C "Blank" 27 mm
(Putzel)
(Aab)		  

HUTCHINSON
Union to Republic
Area: Victoria West
1   1C "Blank"   First seen:
08.11.1904
(Frescura)		 Union 17.10.1935
(Frescura)		  
2   2C "Bars + cross" First seen:
11.07.1906
(Aab)		 Union 24.01.1924
(Frescura)		  
3   2C "Blank"   26 mm 15.11.1932
(Putzel)		 08.12.1952
(Putzel)		  
4   2C "Blank" 30 mm 03.12.1949
(Putzel)		 31.08.1960
(Putzel)		  
5   2C "Bar"   Modern relief 1958
(Putzel)		    
6   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 1956
(Putzel)		    
7   1C "Blank"   Skeleton 1958
(Putzel)		    

HYMANSPOST
01.05.1913 to 24.07.1922
28.05.1924 to 30.06.1930
Area: Bloemfontein
Not recorded