Bridge party in aid of club funds

The committee—of which Mrs. Frank Hodgson is president, Mrs. Bridgman treasurer, and Mrs. J. A. C. Wilson secretary—and members of the Toowoomba Croquet Club arranged a successful and delightful bridge party in the Memorial Hall yesterday afternoon in aid of club funds. The dais at the far end of the hall was decorated strikingly with masses of radiant poinsettia set in tall stands and arranged alternately, to form a frontage, with groupings of soft green ferns. Down the centre of the hall were tall pedastals topped with pottery and brass jars filled with autumn foliage and Iceland poppies in gold and tawny shades. Afternoon tea was served at a buffet, which was decked with tiny silver vases of Geraldton wax flower set in soft billows of sea-blue tulle. The helpers at afternoon tea time were Mesdames Frank Hodgson, J. A. C. Wilson, C. Fortescue, Bridgman, J. Esler, G. Fogarty, Mervyn Dines, Kingsford, Broadfoot, Brodie, Wensley, Thorburn, McLean, Thorburn and C. Priest. In addition to the Mayoress (Mrs. J. D. Annand), those present were Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Marshall, Mesdames McNeill, H. Foster, D. Pollock, J. Legh, [?Crothers], David Cramond, A. O. Jackson, Alex. Horn, H. G. Tudor, W. H. Jackson, A. W. Skyring, R. Pickering, A. Collins, R. W. Thomas, V. R. Woodhill, C. C. Dixon, G. Horn, B. Kuhneman, J. Atwell, E. A. McConachie, J. Krimmer, W. A. Elvery, R. S. Gibson, F. Trenerry, A. Proudfoot, C. J. Searle, A. McBride, M. F. O'Connell, T. H. J. Davies, A. R. Leslie, W. M. Sinclair, W. Pascoe, H. Tilbury, Nixon Smith, C. Loxton, Duncan Thompson, J. Lee, T. A. Critchley, J. Fenner, A. R. Charles, P. Hewlett, E. McKenzie, B. G. Costin, E. J. Melville, J. Shum, J. D. Meares, C. J. Frost, J. R. Mayne, G. R. Harrington, J. J. Lucy, W. Cunningham, A. J. Sayas, N. Sweeney, T. Miller, W. R. Ross, J. Demaine, A. Recourt, E. C. Olive, E. Bruce Smith, T. Falconer, W. A. Morgan, W. Vernon, E. Kingsford, W. Peet, N. Wilson, N. G. Hatton, B. L. Pumfrey, E. Annand, C. Burness, J. W. Caton, J. W. McMahon, J. Rogers, G. Cossart, D. Rusden, H. R. Hale, K. Bedwell, W. McLennan, W. Bligh, W. Oehlman, C. Copas, M. Hussey, N. C. Wilson, R. D. Kirby, J. Provan, P. A. Evers, J. Cameron, Hal. Hodgson, H. Newnham, B. Lamb, Misses M. Harrison, Joyce Charles, Robinson, Done, Connolly, R. Fryar, Frost, S. and A. Thompson, C. Warner, D. Crotty, Marcia Hodgson, A. Ross, Effie Williamson, Edith Williamson, and Jean McNeill.

The article as it was printed in The Toowoomba Chronicle, 16 June 1937. Scan from Trove, National Library of Australia. (Trove, National Library of Australia)