West Toowoomba club's birthday tea for Toowoomba members

The president and members of the West Toowoomba Croquet Club celebrated their second birthday with an enjoyable tea party in the Bowling Club pavilion yesterday afternoon, at which they entertained the members of the Toowoomba Club. The grounds were gay with rose borders all abloom and hedges of flowering fuchsias, and the tea tables were arranged with copper bowls of gerberas, carnations, and bouvardia, the president's table having a special arrangement of crimson Edith Cavell roses set on panels of ribbon in the colours of the two clubs, red and white and navy and pale blue. A beautiful birthday cake was decorated with croquet mallets and balls and two tiny coloured candles. The president (Mrs. Carmody), in a short speech, welcomed the visitors, and Mrs. Rowe (president, Toowoomba Club) responded. During the afternoon there were several croquet competitions and a guessing competition, and a friendly match between the clubs. The hostesses were Mesdames Carmody (president), M'Lean and Fryar (vice-presidents), Miller (captain), Compagnoni (hon. secretary), B. Bullock, A. E. Baker. R. Walsh, Dumigan, Johnson, Marshall, J. Murphy, F. Stewart, Thorburn, C. Villaume, Norman O'Kelly, Misses A. Tolmie, M'Kinstrey, and Rene Fryar, and the guests included Mesdames E. Rowe (president, Toowoomba Club), E. Perkins (captain), O. Booth (hon. secretary), F. Hodgson, Carrol, A. R. Godsall, J. B. Kingsford, E. Perkins, Watson, Harce, Harden, Corbett, Mervyn Dines, F. M'Leod, Isaacs, Blair, and Misses Booth and Connolly (Brisbane).

The article as it was printed in The Brisbane Courier, 14 February 1928. Scan from Trove, National Library of Australia. (Trove, National Library of Australia)