WAIHI NOTES.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 21, 22 May 1902, Page 6

WAIHI NOTES.

(From our own correspondent.)

May 13. During the pa^t month Waihi hos had experience of two mayoral elections, and has also elected the members of its first Borough Council The formatioi of -i borough and the stirring of road works h-we bo.'v a bo m to numbers of working 1 men, as owing to the closing down of -evoral mine« employment is difficult t.) obtain. Indeed th*» Council have f mnd if neorssarv to insert advertisements in the Auckland papers warning men against coming to Waihi in search of employment. There are now 120 children attending '.he parochial school held in the church. _ Owing to the lacK of acro-nmr-dation tho pupils at present are limited to menib ts of our own denomination, but when the school proper in erected all children will be accepted. It is the intention to have a school built 50 feet by 2 j fu 't, with a t< c '"'■") feet by 25 feet.

'A Hint to L-iymen,' iv your i"sue of Miy 1 in hardly n< eded for Waihi, as Catholics in t'.i 1 - town take a g< neral imen^t m eveiything conducive tn its welfare. The R v. Path, r Krolic i^ chairman of the flospUal Tru-tees-, and in also frrq ienily ;iske< to preside at otner me. tings; the pre-id- nt of t-'e Mines' Union m a Catholic, as als > the branch secretaries at Wnhi ami X irmgahake , while on all committee- cmn< cttd with the social life of the place Catholics will be found to tie fore.