Club holds a birthday tea for its first anniversary

To celebrate the anniversary of the opening of the West Toowoomba Croquet Club, the members held a most enjoyable "birthday tea," at the lawns in Rome-street, yesterday afternoon. Tea was served in the Bowling Club Pavilion at tables most artistically decorated with bowls of red and white flowers (the club colours) set on panels of red and white ribbon, allied to royal and pale blue ribbons, the colours of the Toowoomba Croquet Club, members of which were guests of the West Toowoomba Club for the afternoon. The pavilion was gay with strings of small flags and streamers, and a feature of the President's table was the beautifully iced birthday cake (presented by Mrs. Parrot), which was surmounted by one candle in a frill of red ribbon. Several competitions were held, although the rain interfered a little with the play. The President, Mrs. A. T. Parrot, wore a gown of pearl grey painted crepe-de-chine, and a small white hat banded with saxe and black ribbon. Those present, in addition to Mrs. Parrot, were Mesdames W. A. Bain, J. M. Johnson, Compagnoni, Frank Hooper, A. R. Godsall, M. Corbett, T. L. Fryar, Kingsford, E. J. Rowe, Edward Perkins, Charles Blake, George Hooper, M'Lean, J. J. Petford, Hale, Mervyn Dines, Charles Villaume, Carrel, Richard Walsh, W. Millar, Fitzpatrick, Hugh O'Brien, Thorburn, King, Barter, F. Hodgson, and others.

The article as it was printed in The Toowoomba Chronicle, 18 February 1927. Scan from Trove, National Library of Australia. (Trove, National Library of Australia)