Toowoomba members head to the Brisbane croquet carnival

One of the main sporting events in Southern Queensland is the croquet carnival, commencing in Brisbane on Monday, September 6. It will attract players and spectators from every State of the Commonwealth and from New Zealand.

The carnival, which will include inter-State Test games, Australian championships and medal competitions, will be followed by the Queensland annual croquet tournament.

On the opening day, an official welcome will be extended to the visitors by the president of the Australian Croquet Association (Mrs. J. Wall, of Sydney) at the Merthyr Lawns. Following the welcome, a civic reception will be given the visitors in the City Hall by the Lord Mayor (Alderman Frank Roberts).

The members of the Australian Croquet Council and delegates to the carnival will then be entertained at luncheon at Merthyr club house. The test games will commence on the Monday afternoon at the Merthyr, Windsor and Stephens lawns.

In addition to the sporting events, the carnival will be highlighted with social entertainments, consisting of bridge parties, musicales, fork dinners, luncheons, morning and afternoon teas, and motor tours to the South and North Coasts.

Mrs. E. A. McConachie, the president of the Toowoomba Croquet Club, will motor to Brisbane early in September and will stay at Oxford House for the carnival and the Queensland tournament. Mrs. McConachie is a delegate for Queensland on the Australian Croquet Council, and is also an Australian referee.

She intends going to Brisbane on Friday morning to attend a meeting of the Queensland Croquet Association at the Young Men's Christian Association rooms to finalise arrangements for the Queensland croquet tournament, in which there will be more than 600 entrants including a number of men.

The president of the Queensland Croquet Association (Mrs. F. Williamson) will preside over the meeting on Friday, and will be the official hostess of the tournament.

Other Toowoomba players going to Brisbane next month for the croquet events are Mesdames O. Weymouth and E. Thompson, who are members of the Toowoomba Club.

The article as it was printed in The Toowoomba Chronicle, 24 August 1954. Scan from Trove, National Library of Australia. (Trove, National Library of Australia)