the bank erect a more pretentious building on the present site, and perhaps the directors will replace the little crib at present used when they finish the Bega building!” The site was eventually sold in 1915.

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The Australian Bank of Commerce continued to operate from the 1913/14 built structure until late 1927, when the local branch was closed down and business removed to the Bega branch.

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Early the following year, the Pambula Co-operative Creamery & Dairy Co moved their offices into the building. This proved a real boon to the township, with suppliers coming to town once a month for the Saturday meetings, collecting their supply cheques and then settling accounts with local businesses. This had the effect of almost ensuring that butter factory suppliers kept their business in Pambula and is considered one of the foremost reasons why the town was the commercial centre for so many years. Many older residents recall the people in the streets on factory meeting days, and the increased level of business done in those times. Around 1964/65 the Dairy Co. purchased the building, continuing to occupy it, along with the Pambula branch of the Primary Producer’s Union who had also been using the premises from at least the mid-1930’s for their various activities and meetings.

 

Following destruction of the Pambula Post Office by fire in June 1936, the Department also moved in to the old AB of C building. Although this was only intended to be very temporary, the secretary of the Pambula Co-operative Creamery and Dairy Co wrote in November that year to complain of the ongoing situation, stating “We were assured verbally that it would be only a matter of four or five months time from the date on which the Post Office burned down until the new office would be erected, it is now over five months and nothing has been done to relieve us of the inconvenience. The present position is that two clerks and the Secretary are crowded into one small room, where all the work has [sic] done and all records kept in addition to this, the Board meetings of the Company are held in the same room, comprising seven directors, Manager and Secretary…” The same month, the local branch of Primary Producers Union wrote to similarly complain, pointing out “The premises at present rented by the Postal Department are in normal times completely occupied by our own and the Pambula Dairy Co organisation and at present, due to the part occupation by Post Office, we are greatly inconvenienced…” Once the owners of the building, Godfrey Brothers, indicated that occupation may not be available beyond the end of December that year, the postal department moved to have a new facility erected.