Pennant unfurling and farewell tea for Mrs. Cossart

Mesdames S. Sowden (president) Queensland Croquet Association), Stuart Johnson and Collinson (Brisbane) will arrive in Toowoomba to-morrow for the unfurling of the 1933 pennant at the Toowoomba Croquet Club's lawns. Mesdames J. A. C. Wilson and Renshaw (Gatton), and Holmes and Cunningham (Pittsworth) will also be in town for the unfurling ceremony, which will be performed by Mrs. Sowden.

On Saturday afternoon last the president and members of the Toowoomba Croquet Club entertained Mrs. George Cossart at a pleasant tea party on the lawns prior to her departure on a trip to England. Tea was served in the pavilion at tables arranged with blue delphiniums, daisies, and golden glow marigolds. After tea the president (Mrs. Oswald Booth) presented to Mrs. Cossart, on behalf of the members, an attractive pair of deck shoes. There were polo croquet competitions, and the winner, Mrs. Frank Hodgson, presented the prize, two packs of pretty cards, to the guest of honour. In addition to the guest of honour and the president, those present were Mesdames Fortescue, F. Hooper, Mervyn Dines (hon. secretary), Izatt, F. Hodgson, D. Marshall, C. G. Blair, Bridgman, Gerard Boyce, J. Lee, H. Goodrich, W. R. Ross, Rogers, J. Esler, W. Hooper, Thorburn, G. Fogarty, A. V. Grahame, J. B. Kingsford, Slatyer, J. McKinney, Misses B. Booth and Clarice Hooper.

The article as it was printed in The Toowoomba Chronicle, 2 March 1934. Scan from Trove, National Library of Australia. (Trove, National Library of Australia)