WAIHI NOTES

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXIII, Issue 13, 30 March 1905, Page 20

WAIHI NOTES

(From our own correspondent.) St. Patrick's Day was celebrated in WaLhi by the children of St. Joseph's school having a picnic, and tflie Hibernian Society holding an athletic sports meeting; The weather was beautiful, and the functions passed off most successfully. In the evening a social was held, and it is expectefl that the Hibernian Society will benefit to the extent of £|1O or £12 from the proceeds of the- day's functions. On Sunday, the feast of St. Joseph, tthe members of the St. Joseph's branch W.A.V.'B. Society maSe their quarterly Communion. After Mass the members attended in the schoolroom and as Bro. Mullins was leaving for Wellington the next day, advantage was taken of the occasion' to make him a presentation of a traveling bag as a to'cen of the esteem in which he is held by the r-em-bers. The presentation was made by the Past President. The secretary also, said a few wards of amtreciatian of Bro. Mullins, who has not missed a single meeting since he had joined.