The Leader (Orange, NSW)

In 1894 the poet and author William Goodge became proprietor and editor, a role he held until c1899 when he left Orange, unable to pay the paper's debts.

[2] When Carr was elected to Federal Parliament in 1906 he sold the business to Thomas Crouch from the Wellington Gazette to conduct it as a newspaper with a labor leaning.

The left-leaning paper was boycotted, especially by auctioneers who would not advertise in it and eventually the business was taken over by Crouch's mortgagor Mark Bembrick, also of Wellington.

Each paper's publication days were apparently decided on the toss of a coin; The Leader on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and the Advocate on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.

[4] On 1 July 1945 Western Newspapers Pty Ltd bought The Leader from the Leggo family and the Orange Advocate from George Thompson.