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Laurel Bank bridge party raises club funds

There were colourful floral decorations at the Memorial Hall yesterday afternoon when the members of the Laurel Bank Croquet Club held a bridge party to augment the club funds. Tea was served at a…

Trove2 min read16 November 1938
HeadingTHE SOCIAL ROUND
NewspaperThe Toowoomba Chronicle and Darling Downs Gazette
DateWednesday 16 November 1938, page 5Wed 16 Nov 1938, p. 5
Found onTrove, National Library of Australia

here were colourful floral decorations at the Memorial Hall yesterday afternoon when the members of the Laurel Bank Croquet Club held a bridge party to augment the club funds. Tea was served at a long table, which was set at one side of the hall and adorned with slender silver vases of blue delphiniums and pink larkspurs. The committee responsible for the arrangements comprised Mrs. Malcolm Sinclair (president), Mrs. P. S. Priest (secretary), Miss M. Rowe (treasurer), Mesdames Dunsdon, J. Platz, P. Fett, J. Voght, W. Childs, J. Schmidt, R. Stone, Copas, and S. Dennis. The bridge players were Mesdames G. Wagner, A. Myers, K. Bedwell, G. Mackay, Broadfoot, J. J. Lucy, M. J. McGovern, L. Lawton, C. Bowdler, R. G. Wonderley, Gerard Boyce, David Cullen, Julius Cohen, J. Oberhardt, C. Chapman, W. Warneke, Culliford, J. A. C. Wilson, C. M. Watts, C. Copas, Edward King, T. H. J. Davies, S. A. R. Leslie, Riordan, O. C. Jones, S. Johnson, N. Fox, R. J. Hazard, A. E. Given, R. Stone, M. Wallis, A. E. Dent, J. McIntyre, P. C. Bergin, L. G. Lange, T. G. Taylor, J. Neil, R. Relton, A. Higgins, E. Kingsford, W. McNeill, Walsh, McKenzie, W. J. MacGill, J. A. Pattemore, F. W. Denny, M. Ryan, W. Peet, H. H. Cay, G. Harris, A. Ehrlick, McDonnell, Collie, Davies, Dayas, F. M. Smith, R. Handley, Misses I. Fryar, Jean Dennis, L. Wonderley, N. Golden, M. Dever and J. Robertson.

The article as it was printed in The Toowoomba Chronicle, 16 November 1938. Scan from Trove, National Library of Australia.

The article as it was printed in The Toowoomba Chronicle, 16 November 1938. Scan from Trove, National Library of Australia. (Trove, National Library of Australia)

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