Trades Provide Employment

Number of students employed by the school: farm, 21; dairy, 3; carpentry, 2; culinary, 25; campus, 2; halls, 8; poultry, 1; laundry, 3; bakery, 2; boiler, 2; office, 3. Total, 72. Number of students employed part time in the food factory, 112. Number of permanent workers employed in the food industry, 78. Number of faculty members, 22. Grand total employed in the school plant, 284. Amount earned by employees: outdoor students, $14,500; indoor students, $48,000; by permanent factory employees, $112,000; by faculty, $26,000. Total amount annually earned by all classes employed in the school plant, $200,500.AGP 319.4

In the food industry department several most useful trades are carried on: health food production, electrical engineering, printing, carpentry, painting, importing, exporting, accounting.AGP 319.5

To aid in the sale of the food products, seven food stores and vegetarian cafés are being maintained in the largest cities—the capitals of the states. The sale of these food products has developed beyond anything the founders of the school ever anticipated—two million dollars annually.AGP 319.6

To operate these branch factories, depots, food stores, cafés, and the fleet of auto trucks and auto delivery cars requires the services of a large staff. Three hundred of our people are employed the year round for this work. Adding this number to those who are employed at the school, we have a staff of around six hundred. These are all our own church members. They are all given good wages for their labor.AGP 320.1

A large investment of money is required to carry on a work of those proportions. At present this investment is about three million dollars. It is a source of great satisfaction to our people in Australasia that this great enterprise is so efficiently managed that, after meeting the enormous expense of every kind, a good profit remains, and that this is all devoted to the advancement of the different lines of our work being carried on in the Australasian Division.AGP 320.2