THE LATE MISS TRIPP

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 4, 6 January 1936, Page 13

THE LATE MISS TRIPP

Mention is made in the "Christchurch Star-Sun" of the fine character of the late Miss Eleanor Tripp, and of the kindly hospitality of her parents, in the midst of which she was brought up. The writer says: In spite of the family numbering eight children, the old homestead was always overflowing with other people, and it was seldom that strangers coming to Canterbury did not find a welcome—it was often home—at Orari Gorge. The story is told of one man, who brought a letter of introduction, coming in for a night and staying two years. Very artistic and fond of travel, she made a wide circle of friends, and had the gift of remembering people; and her stories were full of humour. She and her sister, Mrs. Stopford, collected the money for the first little day school on the station, where the children of old hands had their-daily lessons. All her life she taught or wcrked for the Sunday school, driving through all weathers and five miles to Woodbury, and in later years to the school on the Tripp's Settlement,- where she built a great tradition. For twenty years she served on the committee of the St. Saviour's Orphanage, and it is largely due to her influence that the Woodbury Church has grown into a place of beauty and worship, the centre of the life of the district, and not a place of wood and stone for formal worship.

Until a few months ago she had never had a serious illness, and had never been in a nursing home in her life.

Mrs. T. A. Walker (Wellington) has booked her return passage by the Moldavia, leaving on December 27. She will stay in Sydney for a time.

On the eve of her departture by the Remuera this week, Miss Heloise Russell-Fevgusson entertained a number of her musical friends and New Zealanders to afternoon tea at Curzon House. She had had a wonderfully successful time in Finland, and she hopes to be successful in New Zealand with her Hebridean songs and her Celtic harp.