WELLINGTON WOMEN AND THEIR WORK

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 75, 21 December 1929, Page 22

WELLINGTON WOMEN AND THEIR WORK

MRS. G. A. TROUP Mrs. G. A. Troup is one of the few Mayoresses of this city who can claim to be completely a Wellington woman since she was born, educated, married and has lived all her life in Wellington. Her parents, too, were married in Wellington, by the late Rev. D. Patterson, who also christened and married her, and christened all her children. So that she is most essentially a parishioner of St. John’s.

It was in St. John’s Church that she began active social work in the bible class movement and she took an active part later' in helping her husband in the work he had so much at heart, the con-

duct of the Boys’ Institute. Since Mr. Troup's election to the Mayoralty, Mrs. Troup has had to give up active partici- ’ pation in that work, for, as Mayoress, she finds her interests spread over many activities for social service and philanthropic works in the city, and in every one she has shown sympathy and understanding which have endeared her to all associated with her. In the last three years Mrs. Troup has responded to all calls made upon her, giving her time unsparingly wherever she is asked. She has, she says, enjoyed doing so, for she has come into contact with people in so many varied activities. So much is being done in the way of social service that Mrs. Troup says she has been astonished at it all. Whatever happens, there would always he a large body of women ready to help in emergencies, and as Mayoress of the city she takes a pride in all the good work going on. Mrs. Troup has taken a particular interest in the Wellington Girls’ College, for she is herself an old girl, having attended the college when it was in its first building Smith Street, and she was one of the first pupils when the college was transferred to its new home in Pipitea Street.