THE MAYORALTY

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 60, 12 March 1927, Page 12

THE MAYORALTY

mr. troup's campaign;

Ou Tuesday evening next, in the ConY cei-t Chamber o£ the Town Hall, Mr. G. A. Troup will open his Mayoral campaign. Mr. Troup, who has received the endorsement of the Civic League to his candidature, is a prominent figure both in social/ Work and in the business world. For 4W years in the Railway Department, lie wa< at the time of quitting the service a few years ago, officer in charge of the architec-1 tural branch. On his retirement he was invited to submit himself as a candidate for the City Council, and at the last election was amongst those who were returned' at the head of the poll. At present he is acting as chairman of the Health Committee of the City Council, and holds the ajn,tlo"c aJ'P°' nt">cnt as chairman of the' Classification Committee, or Grading Com- 1 mittee, which deals with staff matters. For? 40 years now, Mr. Troup has been inter-1 ested in the work of the Boys' Institute,) and for a quarter of a century he ha*J been its president. The housing difficulty] at its worst was given to Mr. Troup for" ins consideration during his work witE* the Railway Department. Neither ]ab-< our nor materials could be had in any: supplies, but Mr. Troup, by his design-) ing and organisation of the equipment of the house-cutting factory at Frankton, ewW cd the trouble as far as the railway sen* vants were concerned. In his address on* Tuesday, Mr. Troup wi H de .,] with Smpol .JS ant policy matters of interest to all cit«