[2] During Whyte's episcopate the number of priests in the diocese doubled from 40 to 81; there was a similar increase in the children attending Catholic schools, from 3060 to 6120.

[2] On 18 December 1941 Whyte suffered a stroke and was taken to the Mater Misericordiae Hospital where he remained for the last 16 years of his life.

[4] In July 1942 the golden jubilee of Whyte's ordination was celebrated bringing visitors from all parts of New Zealand.

[2] In January 1943 Hugh John O'Neill was appointed as Coadjutor Bishop of Dunedin, but ill health forced his resignation in 1946.

In 1949 John Kavanagh was appointed as Apostolic Administrator "sede plena" and coadjutor with the right of succession.

His body lay in state at St Joseph's Cathedral until a solemn requiem Mass was celebrated on 30 December 1957, attended by all the hierarchy of New Zealand, and a large concourse of clergy and laity.