Mr James Hoare, founder of the Laurel Bank Ladies' Croquet Club

The West Toowoomba Progress Association has been the forerunner of many other public bodies which can look on Mr. Hoare as being their founder. The first of these was the Alford Park Tennis Club. Mr. Hoare has been president of this club for seven years. In the formation of the City Bowling Club Mr. Hoare was once again the prime mover. This was another job that he became engaged in when he was an octogenarian, and he brought it to successful fruition. Mr. Hoare has the honour of being the first president of that club. Again he is the founder and a life member of the Laurel Bank Ladies' Croquet Club, another job successfully carried through in his eighties. In these three sporting bodies can be seen living memorials to the work done by Mr. Hoare in Toowoomba.

The article as it was printed in The Toowoomba Chronicle, 13 June 1938. Scan from Trove, National Library of Australia. (Trove, National Library of Australia)