WAIHI NOTES.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 13, 27 March 1902, Page 20

WAIHI NOTES.

(From our own correspondent,) March 17 Yesterday morning at the 11 o'clock Mass, the Rev. Father Brodie announced that the Catholic school conducted by the Sisters of Mercy would be opened in Waihi on Monday, April 7. This step is taken in pursuance of the diocesan statute, which enacts that in any place where the number of Catholic children of school age exceeds 40, a Catholic school shall be established as soon as possible, so that every facility may be offered to enable children to be throughly instructed not only in the various branches of secular knowledge but also in the essential matter of religious instruction, which is an indispensable factor for the proper training of youth. The new church building will serve for school purposes in the meantime till the school proper i<< erected. Arrangements have been made to fully equip the school with all the requisites prescribed by the Government school inspectors. The Sisters appointed to the Bchool will arrive in Waihi at the end of the present week, and will be temporarily accommodated in the dwelling lately occupied by the Rev. Father Brodie. The work of erecting the convent is already well in hand, special rooms being provided for the teaching of music and fancy work, in which branches the Sisters of Mercy have always been eminently successful. The school would be free to all, collections to be made from time to time for the support of the Sisters.