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MR. GORDON TROUP TO GO TO PARIS.
Mr. Gordon S. Troup, master at the Christchurch Boys’ High School, and son of the Mayor of Wellington (Mr. G. A. Troup), has tendered his resignation, in order that he may go to Paris to take up a position as secretary for foreign students under the Student Christian Movement. Mr. Troup’s resignation, which was accepted by the Board of Governors of Canterbury College on Tuesday afternoon, will take effect from January SI, 1930.
It is understood that one aspect of the movement that Mr. Troup is to be associated with is the setting up in Paris of a very large hostel for the accommodation of some 600 or 700 students from all parts of the world. Mr. Troup is a talented linguist, as well aa scholar, and it is his gift for languages as well as his sterling character which lias brought about the appointment. He was partly educated in France, so he will be on familiar ground in Paris.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 55, 28 November 1929, Page 13
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