"Kumasi Stations' Conference"

Throughout the second part of 1896 and the first part of 1897 there is a running struggle going on between Ramseyer and the Gold Coast Standing Committee over the supply of more staff for Asante. In 1896 this was particularly concerned with the posting of fresh local agents into Asante and the supply of more European missionaries. In the first half of 1897 the struggle was more in terms of the need for female assistance for Mrs. Ramseyer, Ramseyer pressing for Perregaux being posted to Kumasi (this seems to have been negatived in Basel), then for any female assistance and two or three months taken up with an administrative tangle in which the proposal to send un unmarried woman to Kumasi mas made by Basel through the wrong channels and being opposed by Müller on the grounds of too little space in Kumasi took some time to work out. In July, too, Zellweger applied for a transfer to Kumawu - he is a mass of nerves he claims, and evidently he could not find his metier at Kumasi and that was his main problem - as Ramseyer pointed out when he asked for more time to go on preaching journeys, he could very well preach in a radius of 1-1 1/2 hours from Kumasi in his existing pattern of activity.

16.08.1897

16.08.1897

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