Social afternoon raises funds for the club

Yesterday afternoon, at the Association Grounds, the members of the Toowoomba Croquet Club arranged a social afternoon in aid of the club funds. Competitions were held on the lawn, and bridge tables were set in the pavilion, which was gay with autumn-tinted chrysanthemums and dahlias. The committee included Mesdames E. J. Rowe (president), O. Booth (secretary and treasurer), C. Fortescue (capt.), F. Hooper, F. Hodgen, F. W. Isaacs, and D. F. Marshall. Competitions were held under the supervision of Mesdames J. M'Kinney and Bridgeman (crazy croquet), A. V. Graham, Cox, C. G. Blair, and Thorburn (gymkhana), G. Fogarty and Miss Booth (bagatelle), Mesdames J. Rogers and W. Hooper. Those present included Mesdames J. Douglas Annand (patroness), A. R. Rose, M. H. Sullivan, J. B. Kingsford, R. M'Lean, R. H. Ferguson, V. Rogers, A. Collins, O. Sanders, Evers, R. F. O'Brien, M'Kenzie, Taylor, V. R. Woodhill, Hazard, A. Lacaze, Glen Hickey, Gibson, Davidson, Pickering, W. Atkinson, A. R. Godsall, M. Harrison, J. Lawrenson, W. Miller, R. N. W. Bligh, Burcher, and Enright. Misses M. Hooper, Walker, Gaydon, J. Krimmer, L. Hooper, D. Chapman (Brisbane), T. Hodgson, A. Irving, M. Dunne, and Long.

The article as it was printed in The Brisbane Courier, 30 April 1931. Scan from Trove, National Library of Australia. (Trove, National Library of Australia)