Reorganization of Publishing Work in Australia
By Editor
In an announcement covering eleven type-written pages, the Union Conference Publishing Committee of the Australasian Union Conference give full particulars concerning the reorganization of the publishing work in that field and the removal of the printing plant to the country. The location selected is the town of Warburton, forty-eight miles east of Melbourne, on the Upper Yarra River. The climate of the place is described as “beautiful and mild,” and the land as “excellent.” The plan is to purchase “a portion of an estate comprising three hundred and twenty-eight acres of land, about half cleared.” The water for domestic purposes and for supplying power to the factory will be conveyed from a natural falls, about seven hundred feet from the proposed location of the factory. The machinery and material from the present printing plant will be removed to the new factory as soon as it is built. The work will hereafter be conducted by a new corporation called “The Signs of the Times Missionary Association.” This association has a denominational constituency very similar to the original constituency of the Review and Herald Publishing Association. After the removal of the plant to the country, commercial work will be largely dropped, and the effort of the association will be directed to the printing and publishing of the denominational literature. We are deeply interested in this reorganization of the publishing work in Australia, and hope the efforts of our fellow workers in that field to carry out the instruction of the spirit of prophecy concerning this work will be greatly blessed, and that their work will be more prosperous than ever.