Marvelous Results Follow

Although the college opened with but two small buildings, four teachers, and ten students, those who have been closely associated with the institution during the thirty-eight years of its history estimate that the average annual attendance must have been about one hundred seventy-five. More than two thousand students have, in some measure, enjoyed the advantages of this educational institution. Hundreds of those who have had these advantages are now devoting their lives to the advancement of the cause for which the school stands. Union and local conferences, the island mission fields of the South Pacific, the educational, publishing, and medical institutions, the food factoriesAGP 318.4

and vegetarian cafés, and all lines of gospel work of every kind, are under the leadership and the management, with very few exceptions, of men and women who received their education and initial training in the Australasian Missionary College. Besides those who are connected with the Australasian Division, many have gone to distant fields.AGP 319.1

In a survey of the institution given back in 1929,—six years ago,—the principal of the school gave the following report:AGP 319.2

Enrollment: College, 200; church school, 100. Number of buildings, large and small, in use, 52. Number of acres of land retained for the school, 700; cleared, 300; in orchard, 25; in crops, 50; in garden, 5; in pasture, 220. Varieties of fruits grown: apples, pears, quinces, oranges, lemons, plums, persimmons, lo-quats, and grapes. Variety of crops: oats, maize, potatoes, sorghum, vegetables of all kinds. Number of cattle in dairy, 85. Number of fowls, 760. Trades taught: carpentry, sewing, cooking, and home nursing.AGP 319.3