LAST TRIBUTES

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 85, 7 October 1941, Page 9

LAST TRIBUTES

LATE SIR G. A. TROUP

REPRESENTATIVE FUNERAL

"TRIUMPHANT FAITH"

Representatives of practically all sections of the community attended the funeral of Sir George. Troup, which took place from St. John's Church, Willis Street', yesterday afternoon. All the organisations, State, civil, and private, with which Sir George had been associated, and many others by which he had been highly respected and esteemed for his outstanding qualities, were represented. The Rev. Gladstone Hughes conducted the services at the church, which was filled, and at the crematorium at Karori Cemetery, and associated with him was the Very Rev. J H. MacKenzie. The chief mourners were the widow, Lady Troup, the son, Mr. Gordon Troup (Christchurch), the daughters, Mrs. S. Weir and Misses Annie and Ina Troup, Mr. C. S. Moore (brother-in-law), Mr. J. H. Butler, and Mr. George Burnett (nephews). ' The pall-bearers at the church were the late Sir George's brother-elders of St. John's, Messrs. A. Martin, L. R. Blake, A. P. Smith, W. J. Ferguson, M. Fraser, and Ad. Howitt, and those at the crematorium were Messrs. F. C. Campbell Spratt (Rotary Club), F. H. Bass (secretary, Board of Trustees of the National Art Gallery and Dominion Museum), E. P. Hay (British and For- , eign Bible Society), J. D. Howitt and B. Shearer (Boys' Institute), and J Gregory (St. John's Bible Class); OUTSTANDING EXAMPLE. Mr. Hughes said that the life of Sir George Troup had been an outstanding example of triumphant faith. He was built on big lines physically, morally, intellectually, and spiritually, and it was from the great things of God that he derived the strength, inspiration, and dynamic power that characterised him. He had been the pioneer 'at St. John's Church of the Bible class movement, which had spread to all the other churches, so that now in New Zealand there were thousands of young men and women who were seeking, the Truth and to regulate their lives according to the Word of God. For that movement New Zealand was indebted to Sir George Troup, and he believed the day. would come when the whole country, irrespective of creed, would recognise that in that movement he had been New Zealand s greatest benefactor. How many lives he had touched nobody could tell, but men who had come under his influence Had declared that he had moved them in a way that no one else was able to move them. Those present included the Prime Minister (Mr. Fraser), the Minister of Finance (Mr. Nash), the Chief Justice (Sir Michael Myers), Mr. Justice Smith, the Rt. Hon. J. G, Coates, the Hon. A. Hamilton, Mr. A. H. Johnstbne, K.C. (Auckland), the General Manager of Railways (Mr. E. Casey), and other representatives of the Railway Department, heads of other State Departments, representatives of the Boys' Institute and S. A. Rhodes Home for Boys, the Board of Trustees of the National Art Gallery and Dominion Museum, the Mayor (Mr. T. Q A. Hislop), councillors and officers of the City Corporation, members and officers of the Wellington Harbour Board, representatives of the Chamber of Com--merce, the V.M.C.A., the British and Foreign Bible Society, the council of Scots and Queen Margaret Colleges, the Rotary movement,, the Municipal Association, the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts,, the Presbyterian General Assembly, the New' Zealand Institute of Architects; the Red Cross Society, the War Relief Association, and other bodies, as well' as numerous representatives of the legal, banking, and medical professions and personal friends of the late Sir George Troup.

MAYOR'S EULOGY

Eulogistic reference to the late Sir George Troup was made by the Mayor of Wellington at the meeting of the City Council last evening. After enumerating the works that had been accomplished during Sir George Troup's Mayoralty, Mr. Hislop said it was not only in civic matters that Sir George had become so widely known. His personal influence, together with what he did in the development of Christian teaching through the Bible reading organisations he set going, was the greatest work of all. "His was a great life, and he rendered important services to the city,", concluded Mr. Hislop, "and his influence induced many others to carry on his work. His greatest memorial is the esteem and respect in which his memory is held."

A resolution of sympathy with the relatives was passed by the council.