![]() ![]() Cheap hydro-electricity and abundant land for both factory premises and staff housing were the predominant reasons for the choice of location, and in fact the "Wonwondah" property that was bought had been owned by the husband of a local Adventist. ![]() However the move deprived the company of the considerable income created by the outsourced work, thus funding for religious material was at a premium. The church decided this was moving in the wrong direction, so decided on a move to Warburton in 1906, where the operation could return to its religious roots. ![]() The management were committed to the printing and distribution of Seventh-day Adventist literature but were also commercially successful - so successful, in fact, that they soon became the unofficial government printers for Victoria. By 1889, the Echo Publishing Company employed 83 people and was the third largest Seventh-day Adventist publishing house in the world. The Signs Publishing Company first began as the Echo Publishing Company, in North Fitzroy, a suburb of Melbourne. Three Adventist preachers, Stephen Haskell, John Corliss and Mendel Israel, a printer, Henry Scott, and an experienced door-to-door literature salesperson, William Arnold, travelled from San Francisco to Sydney on 6 June 1885. Signs Publishing Company is a Seventh-day Adventist publishing house in Warburton, Victoria, Australia. ![]()
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