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Post Offices WELTEVREDEN to WESTWOOD

WELTEVREDEN - Ermelo -
Union to 01.03.1915
Area: Ermelo
NOT  RECORDED

WELTEVREDEN - Krugersdorp -
00.00.1910 to 00.00.1910
Area: ?
1   2C "KRUGERSDORP" First seen
??.02.1907
(Aab)		 Union 07.10.1918
(Visser)		  

WELTEVREDEN RAIL
01.12.1919 to 06.03.1922
Area: Prince Albert
NOT  RECORDED

WELVERDIEND
00.00.1910 to 00.00.1910
Area: ?
1   2C "Asterisk" First seen
08.07.1901
(Aab)		 Union 1922
(Visser)		  
2   2C-D "S.AFRICA" 30 mm 07.10.1919
(Aab)		 01.09.1928
(Aab)		  
3   2C-D "Blank"   32 mm 04.05.1935
(Visser)		    
4   2C-D "Blank"
Visser		 31 mm 13.02.1960
(Visser)		    

WEMMERSHOEK
Union to 18.01.1926
Area: Lydenburg
NOT  RECORDED
Transvaal postmark known

WENSGEVONDEN RAIL
27.04.1925 to 20.02.1927
Renamed to Stilwater Station
Area: Vryheid
NOT  RECORDED

WENTWORTH (STATION)
20.09.1932 to Republic
Area: Durban
1   2C "Blank" 26 mm 1949
(Putzel)		 01.12.1954
(Aab)		  

WENTWORTH DEPOT
1958 to Union (closed 1963)
Area: Durban
NOT  RECORDED

WEPENER
Union to Republic
Area: South-Eastern ORC
1   1C "Blank"   ORC removed 28.06.1912
(Visser)		    
2   2C "Blank"   ORC removed 24.07.1910
(Aab)
(Putzel)		  
       
3 "OFS" 1C "Blank" Skeleton 19.07.1912
(Aab)		    
4   2C "S.AFRICA"     08.01.1924
(Putzel)		    
5   2C "Bars + cross" 27 mm
Different cross
Bars level with date		 12.08.1926
(Aab)		    
6   2C "Bars + cross" Different cross
Bars lower than date		 18.02.1931
(Aab)		 ??.11.1935
(Visser)		  
6   2C "Bars + cross" Thin bars 13.01.1937
(Aab)		 1933
(Visser)		  
7   2C "Bars + cross"   24.07.1945
(Aab)		 13.11.1954
(Aab)		  
8   2C "PAID-BETAAL"     ??.11.1959
(Putzel)		    

WERKMETLUS
19.11.1934 to 27.09.1954
Area: Brits
1   2C "Blank"
Visser		   1946
(Visser)		    

WESKANAAL
01.08.1949 to Republic
Area: Warrenton
NOT  RECORDED
Republic postmarks known

WES-KRUGERSDORP (WEST KRUGERSDORP)
1911 to Republic
Area: West Rand
1   2C "TRANSVAAL"   21.03.1912
(Aab)		 21.10.1955
(Aab)		  
2   2C "Blank"
Visser		 Bi-lingual 21.10.1954
(Visser)		 13.08.1956
(Aab)		  
       

WESLEY
Union to Republic
Area: King Williamstown
1   1C "CGH" Last seen:
10.09.1898
(Frescura)		 Union 16.07.1943
(Frescura)		  

WESPARK (WEST PARK)
11.11.1946 to Republic
Area: Pretoria
1   1C "Blank"
Visser		 Skeleton 28.01.1950
(Visser)		    
2   2C "Blank"
Visser		   28.08.1951
(Visser)		    

WESRAND (WEST RAND)
??.07.1929 to Republic
Area: West Rand
1   2C "Blank" WEST RAND 1933
(Visser)		 13.06.1935
(Aab)		  
2   2C "WES-RAND"   31.01.1942
(Aab)		 22.07.1960
(Aab)		  

WESSELINA
01.05.1913 to 01.02.1915
0.09.1919 to 06.12.1926
Area: Reitz
NOT  RECORDED

WESSELSBRON
07.08.1922 to Republic
Area: OFS Gold Fields
1   2C "Blank"   16.03.1933
(Aab)		 ??.07.1935
(Putzel)		  
2   1C "Blank"
Visser		 Skeleton 19.04.1937
(Visser)		    
3   2C "Blank"   11.08.1937
(Putzel)		 27.11.1942
(Aab)		  
4   2C "Blank"   26 mm 03.04.1954
(Putzel)		    
5   2C "2"   Index 2 11.02.1957
(Putzel)		    
6   2C "BETAAL
PAID"		   16.11.1955
(Visser)		    

WESSELSNEK (RAIL)
Union to Republic
Area: Ladysmith
1   2C "NATAL" Dots on sides 19.12.1910
(Aab)		 14.??.1911
(Putzel)		  
2 RAIL 2C "NATAL"   1918
(Visser)		 1929
(Visser)		  

WEST BANK EASST LONDON
Union to Republic
1   2C "Blank" First seen:
24.11.1903
(Frescura)		 Union 12.10.1915
(Frescura)		  
2   2C "Bars + cross" First seen:
02.04.1906
(Aab)		 Union 06.01.1916
(Aab)		  
3   1C "Blank"
Visser		 Skeleton 28.03.1917
(Visser)		    
4   2C "EAST LONDON"   05.06.1935
(Putzel)		 29.07.1943
(Aab)		  
5   2C       1959
(Visser)		    

WESTDENE
07.01.1924 to Republic
Area:Bloemfontein
1   2C "Blank" 31 mm 26.04.1948
(Aab)		 10.10.1949
(Putzel)		  

WEST END (DURBAN)
Union to 20.10.1930
16.12.1934 to Republic
1 DURBAN 2C "NATAL"   26 mm
Bars on sides		 09.07.1919
(Putzel)		    
2 DURBAN 2C "NATAL"   26 mm
Dots on sides
(Putzel)		    
3 DURBAN 2C "Blank"
Visser		   27.10.1925
(Aab)		 20.10.1930
(Visser)		  
       
4   1C "DURBAN"
Visser		 Skeleton 16.12.1934
(Visser)		    
5   2C "DURBAN"   08.05.1935
(Visser)		 17.07.1940
(Aab)		  
6 PO 2C "DURBAN"     08.10.1942
(Visser)		    
7 DURBAN 2C "1"   Index 1 16.06.1957
(Putzel)		    
8 DURBAN 2C "16" Index 16 25.10.1949
(Aab)		    
9   1C "?"   Skeleton 1956
(Visser)		    
10   PARCEL  
Visser		  
(Visser)		    
11   PARCEL  
Visser		 Index 1
(Visser)		    
12   PARCEL  
Visser		 Index 2
(Visser)		    
13   PARCEL  
Visser		 Index 3
(Visser)		    
14   PARCEL  
Visser		 Index 3
(Visser)		    
15   PARCEL  
Visser		 Index 11
(Visser)		    

WEST END - Kimberley -
Union to 02.12.1957
NOT  RECORDED

WEST END - Pietermaritzburg -
Union to 04.05.1936
1   2C "NATAL" Dots on sides
First seen:
24.10.1901
(Hamilton)		 Union 14.11.1930
(Aab)		  

WESTERBERG
08.10.1948 to 27.04.1953
Area: Prieska
NOT  RECORDED

WESTERDAM
01.07.1918 to Republic
Area: Ventersdorp
1   2C "Bar"    
(Putzel)		    

WESTERN LEVELS
01.08.1960 to Republic
Area: West Rand
NOT  RECORDED
Republic postmarks known

WESTFORD BRIDGE
29.01.1923 to Union
Area: Knysna
1   2C "Blank"
Visser		   24.03.1945
(Visser)		    

WEST FORT
1910 to 1931
Area: Pretoria
1   2C "Blank"   1911
(Visser)		 1928
(Visser)		  

WESTHOVEN
05.11.1939 to Republic
Area: Johannesburg
NOT  RECORDED
Republic postmarks known

WESTHUYZEN
01.10.1911 to 26.10.1953
Area: Bloemhof
1   2C "Bars+ cross"   24.04.1912
(Putzel)		 06.12.1915
(Aab)		  

WESTLAKE
13.03.1943 to 21.07.1947
Area: Cape Town
2   2C "Blank"   07.06.1943
(Aab)		 04.09.1943
(Aab)		  

WESTLAKE CAMP
13.03.1943 to 01.04.1943
Area: Cape Town
1   1C "Blank" Skeleton 13.03.1943
(Aab)		 01.04.1943
(Putzel)		  

WESTLEIGH RAIL
01.12.1914 to Republic
Area: Kroonstad
1   2C "Blank"
Visser		 S.AFRICA
above date
Z.AFRIKA
below date		 21.02.1920
(Visser)		 1937
(Visser)		  

WESTLEYS
Union to 07.04.1930
Area: Pietermaritzburg
1   2C "NATAL"
Visser		   1912
(Visser)		 16.01.1926
(Visser)		  

WEST LONDON
1910 to 02.07.1923
Renamed to Athlone
Area: Cape Town
1   1C "Blank" First seen
17.09.1906
(Frescura)		 Union 05.06.1918
(Visser)		  

WESTMINSTER
Union to Republic
Area: Easter OFS
1   2C "O.R.C." S.O. removed

First seen
??.08.1907
(Putzel)		 Union    
1   2C "O.R.C."
Visser		 S.O.  and
ORC removed
 		 03.09.1910
(Visser)		    
3   2C "O.F.S."
  05.08.1912
(Aab)		    
4   2C "S.AFRICA"
  01.09.1913
(Aab)		 16.10.1913
(Aab)		  
5   2C "Blank"
  06.02.1934
(Aab)		 14.12.1938
(Aab)		  

WESTMINSTER STATION
Union to 01.05.1911
Area: Eastern OFS
NOT  RECORDED

WESTONARIA
12.06.1950 to Republic
Area: Johannesburg
NOT  RECORDED

WEST PORGES
1949 to Republic
Area: West Rand
NOT  RECORDED

WEST PRESIDENT STREET
1929 to Republic (Closed 1962)
Area: Johannesburg
1   2C "JOHANNESBURG"
  1938
(Putzel)		 15.11.1939
(Aab)		  
2   2C "JOHANNESBURG"
Bi-lingual 01.09.1940
(Aab)		 ??.06.1946
(Putzel)		  
3   2C "JOHANNESBURG"
Visser		 Wes-
presidentstraat		 1958
(Visser)		    

WESTS (BLUFF) (RAIL)
Union to Republic (closed 1966)
Area: Durban
1 "BLUFF" 2C "NATAL" First seen:
30.01.1906
(Aab)		 Union 05.03.1925  
2 "RAIL" 2C "NATAL"   1932
(Visser)		 31.08.1944
(Aab)		  
3   1C "Blank"
Visser		   ??.08.1955
(Visser)		    
4   1C "Blank"
Visser		 Last seen
01.02.1964
(Visser)		 28.11.1956
(Aab)		 Republic  
       

WESTVILLE
Union to Republic
Area: Durban
1   2C "NATAL"     1935
(Visser)		    
2   1C "Blank"     1936
(Visser		    
2   2C "Blank"
Visser		 Wide W 26.06.1937
(Visser)		    
3   2C "Blank"   11.07.1950
(Aab)		 20.05.1955
(Aab)		  
4   2C "1"   Index 1 10.11.1954
(Putzel)		    
5   2C "2"   Index 2 03.04.1957
(Putzel)		    

WESTVILLE DEPOT
1955 to Republic
Area: Durban
NOT  RECORDED

WESTWOOD
31.03.1955 to 15.12.1958
Area: Benoni
NOT  RECORDED