Bridge party raises funds for Laurel Bank Croquet Club

H*eading: SOCIAL*

*Newspaper: The Toowoomba Chronicle and Darling Downs Gazette*

*Date: Thursday 27 August 1936, page 5*

*Found on: [Trove](https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article285098822), National Library of Australia*

The members of the committee of the Laurel Bank Croquet Club were hostesses at a delightful bridge party arranged yesterday afternoon in the Memorial Hall to aid the funds of the club. The room was decked with exquisite flowers—Iceland poppies in every radiant shade from pale lemon to deep gold, mingled with branches of pussy willow were grouped in brilliant masses of colour on the stage. Tall vases filled with Iceland poppies, sweet-peas and ranunculuses and low, flat bowls of pansies and violets were placed alternately down the afternoon tea buffet, which had a frontage of the same lovely blossoms artistically arranged in silver bowls. Mrs. Malcolm Sinclair is the president of the club, Mrs. P. S. Priest the secretary, and Miss Rowe the treasurer. Those responsible for the serving of tea were Mesdames P. S. Priest, W. Dunsdon, W. Childs, N. Orr, W. Frood, Fett, J. Platz and W. Boyd. The bridge players were Mesdames A. R. Leslie, G. Y. Knight, C. Boyce, Kirby, G. H. Buchanan, Malcolm Sinclair, M. Frood, H. Stark, T. P. Connolly, A. W. Hale, W. I. Garde, David Cramond, Arthur Hall, G. Wagner, K. Bedwell, J. A. C. Wilson, M. Hussey, J. E. Maclean, G. E. Davies, E. H. Bridgman, A. E. Dent, T. G. Taylor, R. Stone, J. W. Scanlon, T. Slatyer, J. Crouch, J. Walsh, W. T. Leahy, Con. Bowdler, Z. Ziegler, L. J. Gilbert, M. McGovern, J. J. Lucy, L. Lawton, J. Dower, G. Geck, A. Baxter, M. F. O'Connell, R. G. Lyon, J. Fenner, C. A. Lacaze, Duncan Thompson, J. N. Waugh, Given, J. Legh, A. Pollock, W. Hayes, E. McKenzie, J. Demaine, R. G. Wonderley, R. Dawes, T. W. A. Davies, Hamilton, M. Ryan, R. W. Kirby, W. Warrian, C. Copas, A. Higgins, J. Ridge, R. Relton, J. Neil, W. Cramond, A. R. Parkinson, C. C. Dixon, R. W. Thomas, G. Tudor, C. F. Robinson, D. Parker, W. Riley, P. C. Bergin, J. Walsh, Misses A. Ross, M. Scott, Nell White, Marjorie Dawes, Eva Seymour, Erbacher, L. Robinson, J. Robertson, M. Hussey, E. Campbell, E. Dunsdon, M. O'Connor and Mr. J. Hoare.

The article as it was printed in The Toowoomba Chronicle, 27 August 1936. Scan from Trove, National Library of Australia. (Trove, National Library of Australia)