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Bridge and 500 tea at the croquet courts for pavilion fund

In aid of the pavilion building fund, Mesdames A. R. Godsall, Mervyn Dines, John M'Kinney, C. G. Blair, Keys, Bridgman, G. Cossart, G. Fogarty, Marshall, and J. B. Kingsford were hostesses at a…

Trove2 min read20 May 1930
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NewspaperThe Brisbane Courier
DateTuesday 20 May 1930, page 22Tue 20 May 1930, p. 22
Found onTrove, National Library of Australia

n aid of the pavilion building fund, Mesdames A. R. Godsall, Mervyn Dines, John M'Kinney, C. G. Blair, Keys, Bridgman, G. Cossart, G. Fogarty, Marshall, and J. B. Kingsford were hostesses at a bridge and "500" tea at the Toowoomba Croquet's Club courts yesterday afternoon. The decorations were carried out in autumn tints. Big bowls of scarlet poinsettia and yellow laburnum were set round the palisading, with low vases of camellias and other autumn flowers. There was a large attendance, and those present included Mesdames J. D. Annand, E. J. Rowe, O. Booth, C. Fortescue, J. P. Newman, A. E. G. Campbell, A. Horn, K. O'Byrne, Isaacs, D. Thompson, Goodrick, O'Keefe, Miller, F. Hodgson, M. Harrison, Wilson, Scott, F. Hooper, E. W. Cleary, M'Naulty, Graham, Seeley, J. Lee, Hatton, Gregg, W. H. Gobbett, A. Gaydon, Eric Annand, E. J. Melville, P. [?Heur], Compagnoni, Hayes, Pollock, A. Price, J. Lucy, Allom, K. M'Kenney, A. Collins Cochrane, [?Zeigler], O'Brien, Greenup, M'Kenzie, Seaton, Lavender, J. S. Webb, Vince, Evans, Dunbar, Rosbrook, Rogers, Ferguson and Kettle; and Misses Lorna Hooper, Mervyn Dines, Booth, Ruth Godsall, Brenda O'Byrne, Ann Walsh, Tuppy Hodgson, Kathleen Hely, Beth and Effie Williamson, Davis, and Thompson.

The article as it was printed in The Brisbane Courier, 20 May 1930. Scan from Trove, National Library of Australia.

The article as it was printed in The Brisbane Courier, 20 May 1930. Scan from Trove, National Library of Australia. (Trove, National Library of Australia)

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