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Tadema's replacement Dirk
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Continuous education at the government school started when
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to the Gold Coast, but they were let go as part of the reorganisation of the colony after
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Demmers was honourably discharged from his headmastership on 8 May 1868. He was replaced by Arie
Hendrik Smits, who had been working as a substitute teacher in Elmina since February 1861.
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local substitute teacher was appointed in 1857. In 1859, a sewing and knitting school for girls was started by Hiltje
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The government school in Elmina was closed after the transfer of sovereignty of the Dutch possessions on the Gold Coast to the United
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boys in Elmina. After many false starts, regular education started in the early 1850s with about 50 pupils, rising to more than 150 in the 1860s.
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was appointed to the vacancy left by Smits' promotion. Hamel would take over as headmaster upon Smits' death on 7 January 1871.
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