President and Members' Day on the lawns

Bright sunshine, smooth green lawns, trees of flowering golden wattle, gay flags and pennants fluttering in the breeze and a friendly carnival spirit combined to make the President and Members' Day at the Toowoomba Croquet Club yesterday a most enjoyable affair. Competitions were played on the lawn and tea was served in the attractive club house at little square tables set about the spacious reception room. Low, flat pottery bowls of a moonlight blue tint, and brass jars were filled with Iceland poppies in warm autumn shades and sprays of Geraldton wax flower in light and dark mauve. The president, Mrs. Frank Hodgson, who wore a natural shaded wool boucle suit and a dark brown wool jumper and hat to tone, received the guests at the creeper-decked entrance porch. The Mayoress (Mrs. J. D. Annand), wearing a grey and black flecked tweed suit and a small black hat, presented the trophies which had been won during the year. Bouquets of lovely flowers, veiled in toning tulle, were presented to the Patroness (Mrs. J. D. Annand), the president (Mrs. Frank Hodgson), the secretary (Mrs. J. A. C. Wilson), the treasurer (Mrs. F. Bridgman), and the captain (Mrs. J. Esler). Those present included the Mayoress (Mrs. J. D. Annand), Mesdames W. J. Broadfoot, Rogers, Malcolm Sinclair, T. Inglis (Brisbane), R. G. Lyon, S. Dennis, Ziebell, M. C. E. Dunsdon, P. S. Priest, J. Wensley, G. Cossart, Hopkins, R. McLean, Stephenson, C. Fortescue, J. Provan, J. Cameron, E. P. Hewlett, Nelson Fox, J. A. C. Wilson, J. Esler, Mervyn Dines, C. J. Searle, A. R. Grahame, Baker, E. A. McConachie, J. Krimmer, F. Flegler, Kingsford, G. Fogarty, J. J. Holmes (Pittsworth), H. Goodrich, J. M. Yates, Misses Marcia Hodgson, I. Fryar, Joyce Gibson, Alison Inglis (Brisbane), Lyon, E. Neale and the following visitors from Dalby: Mesdames Singleton, Coutts, Starling, Coulson, Savage, Thompson and White. Trophies were presented thus: Championship, Mrs. Frank Hodgson; handicap doubles, Mesdames Frank Hodgson and Mervyn Dines; Patroness's trophy, Mrs. Fox; President's trophy, Mrs. J. Wensley; single handicap, Mrs. J. A. C. Wilson; Edith Hooper Memorial trophy, Mrs. Nelson Fox; novice trophy, Mrs. G. Cossart.

The article as it was printed in The Toowoomba Chronicle, 14 July 1937. Scan from Trove, National Library of Australia. (Trove, National Library of Australia)