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 birthday tea at the lawns in Rome-street yesterday afternoon. Tea was served in the bowling pavilion, and the tables were beautified with bowls of red and white flowers, the club colours, on panels of red and white ribbon and of saxe and pale blue ribbons, the colours of the Toowoomba Croquet Club, the members of which were the guests for the afternoon. The pavilion was decorated with strings of flags and ribbons, and a feature of the president's table was an iced birthday cake, made and presented by Mrs. A. T. Parrot, and surmounted by one candle, representing the club year. Several competitions were held. The president (Mrs. Parrot) wore a pearl grey floral crepe de Chine gown, with a small white straw hat, banded with saxe blue ribbon. Those present were Mesdames Parrot, W. A. Bain, J. M. Johnson, Compagnoni, Frank Hooper, A. R. Godsall, Charles Villaume, M. Corbett, T. L. Fryar, Edward Perkin, E. J. Rowe, Charles Blake, George Hooper, J. J. Petford, Mervyn Dines, Carrell, Hale, and M'Lean.

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