OBITUARY
SIR GEORGE TROUP. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day| The death has occurred of Sir George Troup, a former mayor of Wellington and prominent for many years in various branches of civic life. He was' for a long time an elder of St. John’s Presbyterian Church. He did much for the welfare of youth and was a founder of the Wellington Boys’ Institute. He also initiated a public movement which resulted in the erection of the Dominion Museum and Art Gallery. He was born in 1863, educated at Aberdeen and served an apprenticeship to architecture in Edinburgh. He arrived in New Zealand in 1884 and in 1890 joined the Railways Department and in’ 1919 was made Officer-in-Charge of the Architectural Department. For some time Sir George Troup was chairman of a former district Transport Licensing Authority which sat frequently in the Wairarapa.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 October 1941, Page 4
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143OBITUARY Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 October 1941, Page 4
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