WAIHI NOTES.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 6, 6 February 1902, Page 6

WAIHI NOTES.

(From our own correspondent.) January 27. The news that the Cabinet bad approved of Waihi being incorporated a borough was received with great pleasure. Owing to arrangements not being completed, the opening of a Catholic school has been postponed till after the Easter holidays. The solemn opening of the new church by his Lordship the Bishop wll take place on April 20, the Feast of the Patronage of St. Joseph, although the building will be completed and in use about the end of February, The Minister of Mines has induced the County Council to put the various works for which Government grants have been given in band at once, so as to absorb Borne of the surplus labor. Between 200 and 300 men (mostly married men) are now employed on the works. The Commission to inquire into the objections of the Thames Hospital Board ngainst the erection of a separate institution at W.n'hi commerces its sittings at Paeroa today, after which it sits at Waikino and Wdihi. The Commission consists of Rev. Father Brodii (elected by the Waihi petitioners),Mr Nepean Kenny (elected by the Thames Hospital Bourd), and Mr R. S. Bush, Warden (chairman).