Toowoomba club officials head to the state jubilee tournament

APPROXIMATELY 200 visitors from Melbourne, Sydney, the Northern Rivers district of New South Wales, and all parts of Queensland, are expected for the jubilee tournament of the Queensland Croquet Association which will commence on Monday next.

OPENING function for the visitors will be a welcome party on the McIlwraith lawns at Auchenflower tomorrow, when hostesses will be the president of the Q.C.A., Mrs. Frank Williamson, and presidents of 11 metropolitan clubs.

Play in the tournament, which will last a fortnight, will commence on three lawns, Windsor, Stephens and Merthyr.

Senator Annabelle Rankin, who is patroness of the association, will have morning tea at Windsor on Monday, and will welcome the players. She will be the recipient of a gift of flowers.

Sydney visitors for the tournament will include Major and Mrs. R. Tingey, and Mesdames W. Rogers, R. Taylor and G. Coward, all of whom will stay at the Canberra. Colonel Saalfeld, who also comes from the Harbour City, will make the United Service Club his headquarters.

Toowoomba visitors arriving in Brisbane tomorrow for the tournament include the following executive members of the Toowoomba Croquet Club: Mrs. W. Carlisle, president, Mrs. E. A. McConachie, captain, and Mrs. Nelson Fox, secretary.

The article as it was printed in Brisbane Telegraph, 10 August 1951. Scan from Trove, National Library of Australia. (Trove, National Library of Australia)