Toowoomba Croquet Club farewells Mrs. Frank Hooper

The president and members of the Toowoomba Croquet Club entertained Mrs. Frank Hooper (a vice-president and former president of the club), who is leaving shortly on a trip abroad, at a delightfully arranged tea and croquet party at their lawns yesterday afternoon. The lawns were looking beautiful and there was a full attendance of both playing and associate members. On her arrival Mrs. Hooper, who wore a frock of flowered mariette in jade and rose shades and a white ballibuntle hat banded with black and rose ribbon, was presented by the president (Mrs. Ernest Rowe) with a bouquet of pink and mauve asters tied with the club's colours, pale and dark blue. Mrs. Rowe was in a jumper suit with mastic and blue checked skirt and powder blue jumper, with which she wore a shady hat of putty straw banded with toning ribbon. Miss Hooper, who accompanied her mother, wore a pretty frock with mastic and ink red check skirt and red jumper, and a close fitting red hat scarfed with ribbon. Tea was served in the little creeper covered pavilion at a table massed with a wealth of beautiful asters. After tea, Mrs. Rowe, on behalf of the members, presented to Mrs. Hooper a handsome Jaeger travelling rug. Those present included the Mayoress (Mrs. J. Douglas Annand), Mesdames Rowe, E. Perkins, Oswald Booth, Corbett, Kingsford, Isaacs, Keys, Carell, G. H. Buchanan, Cooke, Blair, A. Gaydon, Hawkins, F. Hodgson, Oakeley, Marshall, F. C. M. Burne, C. Fortescue, Harden, A. R. Godsall, Wilson, F. McLeod, J. McKinney, Duncan Thompson and Miss Booth.

The article as it was printed in The Toowoomba Chronicle, 6 March 1928. Scan from Trove, National Library of Australia. (Trove, National Library of Australia)