Bridge party raises money for the club house

The president (Mrs. Malcolm Sinclair) and members of the Laurel Bank Croquet Club organised a successful bridge party in the Memorial Hall yesterday afternoon in aid of the Club's house building fund. Iceland poppies in cream, gold and rustic shades were mingled with gumtips and banked in brass bowls with marigolds, stocks and lilies to make a colourful garden scene on the dais. A splash of colour was made in the centre of the hall by a brass bowl filled with Iceland poppies and gumtips, and set on a dark polished pedestal. The long panelled tea table was covered with a white embroidered cloth, and centred with slender silver vases attractively arranged with sweet peas in all their lovely colourings. Mrs. M. C. E. Dunsdon was the convener of the afternoon tea, and was assisted by Mesdames W. H. Childs, W. Boyd, B. Fett, L. Ziebell, J. Platz, R. S. Priest and R. G. Lyon. The Mayoress (Mrs. J. D. Annand) was present. The bridge players were Mesdames Alex Horn, J. Doyle, J. Demaine, K. Bedwell, A. W. Hale, T. P. Connolly, W. I. Garde, Gerard Boyce, J. Legh, T. J. McNaulty, K. Jefferies, J. Provan, J. Cameron, W. R. Ross, R. Pickering, R. K. Nunn, G. A. Leichney, Edward Farmer, Malcolm Sinclair, K. Bourne, J. Walsh, E. Geck, A. Baxter, R. Stone, A. E. Dent, J. Hoskin, F. Trennery, A. Y. Le Grande, P. A. Atkinson, A. W. Skyring, Garrahy, S. Dennis, A. Higgins, W. Cunningham, Spencer Roberts, R. Phelps, David Cullen, Shylich, F. England, A. Murray, J. M. Tate, J. Voght, J. Falconer, J. Lowcock, F. N. Smith, A. J. Dayas, A. McBride, C. Copas, N. Orr, A. Ostenfeld, [?Carrell], Frank Hodgson, C. C. Dixon, T. H. J. Davies, W. Munro, A. R. Parkinson, A. R. Leslie, J. A. C. Wilson, W. Oehlman, G. R. Harrington, G. E. Fogarty, J. Krimmer, J. Flegler, N. Fox, E. A. McConachie, Ken. McKinney, C. C. Speering, T. Kingsford, W. Peet, David Cramond, A. O. Jackson, W. Cramond, Greenlees, Pollock and F. Hopkins, Misses Keene Cullen, C. Warner, C. Hooper, Joyce Gibson, I. Fryar, E. Campbell, Patty Stone, E. Rosenstengel, A. and J. Tolmie and A. Ross.

The article as it was printed in The Toowoomba Chronicle, 20 July 1937. Scan from Trove, National Library of Australia. (Trove, National Library of Australia)