The first issue of the Pambula Voice was published by founder William Daniel Pfeiffer on 27 August, 1892. Pfeiffer had previously operated the Moruya Advance, but after this closed down, he moved to Pambula, bringing the printing press with him.

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Four years before the Voice’s establishment, gold was discovered at nearby Mt. Gahan and consequently mining news held a prominent place within the paper’s pages for twenty years. Correspondents also reported from all the outlying areas, with weekly columns from Greigs Flat, Nethercote, Lochiel, Millingandi, Towamba and Merimbula to name just a few.

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Pfeiffer continued as editor until November 1904 when he sold the business to George W. Hall of Bega. Six years later, Hall sold out to Charles Arthur Baddeley. A tanner by trade, Baddeley employed J. B. Wilkins as manager and editor until, at a later date, Wilkins appears to have purchased the business from his employer.

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Wilkins continued to run it until his death in 1933 when his son Edgar Claude Wilkins took over. Three years later, the business again changed hands when it was purchased by Eustace Phillipps of Eden. He was to be the last owner of the Voice as it then was.

 

In 1939, WWII broke out and with it came rationing and increasing shortages, including both labour and the paper supplies needed for the weekly publication. As a result, the Pambula Voice was finally forced to amalgamate with the Eden Magnet in 1941, becoming the Magnet-Voice.

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