"Haasis' Report on the Boarding School in the First Quarter of 1893"

Includes the information that a son of a presbyter called Anno had recently left the school to work on his father's farms after twice going through Class V - the same applied to a step-son of James Boamma, who had gone to help his step-father in his preaching journeys in Asante Akim. The fathers would have preferred them to go on to the Middle School in both cases. There are 4 boys in Class VI and the missionaries expect them all to go on to the Middle School. One of the non-appearing pupils at the end of the Christmas holidays eventually gave as his excuse the fact that the Kwahuhene had not given him, as he had all his other relatives a piece of cloth at Christmas. The king promised him this if he returned to school - he returned, received it, but has run away again. (In the sorting out of this situation a Presbyter called Ata was involved). Haasis offers the information that few of the pupils had stayed the whole holiday in their towns - and lists (though obviously not exhaustively) as occupations accompanying their fathers to the Afram to fish or hunt, and to the farms, some of them at the foot of the scarp.

19.05.1893

19.05.1893

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