(1898– ; vols. 1–14, 1898–1910 as Union Conference Record ; vols. 15–90, 1911–1985 as Australasian Record ; vols. 91–92 as South Pacific Record ; superseded The Gleaner; published weekly, 49 issues per year; 1993 circulation, c. 25,500; files in Review and Herald; published at Signs Publishing Company, Warburton, Victoria, Australia). Official organ of the South Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventists. In 1953 alternate issues were increased from eight to 16 pages, and the subtitle “and Advent World Survey” was added. This increased paging was to permit inclusion of material from the Review and Herald. In March 1968 each issue was increased to 16 pages.
The Gleaner , the first Seventh-day Adventist church paper in the Australasian Union Conference, was a duplicated form, which was issued by the Australian Tract and Missionary Society in 1895, and which was issued as a printed monthly in 1896 and 1897 ( vols. 1 and 2). In January 1898 it was superseded by the Union Conference Record.
This publication, which was the denominational organ for the Australasian Union Conference, was at first issued monthly, then biweekly on June 15, 1902, and weekly on Jan. 14, 1907. The Australasian Record reverted to biweekly during World War I, but has been a weekly since 1920. It became the Record in June 1987.
In times past the division secretary was the titular editor, but since 1967 the editor has been the editor of the Signs Publishing Company, with the division secretary named as the associate editor, to tie the division’s official organ into the secretarial department of the division.