Club celebrates its second birthday with a croquet afternoon

An enjoyable afternoon was arranged by the president (Mrs. Carmody) and members of the West Toowoomba Ladies' Croquet Club yesterday afternoon to celebrate the second birthday of the club. The greens, which are in splendid order after the recent rains, looked gay with lines of bright flags. These also were arranged at the entrance to the club house, which was placed at the disposal of the Croquet Club by the bowlers for afternoon tea. The decorations were effective, flowers being used largely. Low bronze bowls of scarlet roses in a setting of gypsophilia were used, and a birthday cake made by Mrs. Carmody, and bedecked with quaint figures, croquet balls, and mallets, and bearing two candles, held its pride of place. The smaller tables were beautified with bowls of bouvardia, gerberas, carnations, and roses, set in panels of scarlet and white (the colours of the Club) and light and dark blue (the colours of the Toowoomba Club). On arrival each guest was presented with a favour of colours to which a number was attached. Later the draw took place for the prize, which was won by Miss Browne.

The guests at the president's table were Mesdames E. Rowe (president of the Toowoomba Club), Fryar and McLean (vice-presidents of the West Toowoomba Club), Petford (vice-president of the Toowoomba Club), F. Miller, E. Perkins, Compagnini, Miller, Baker, Bullock, R. Walsh, Dumigan, Johnson, Marshall, Murphy, Stuart, Thorburn, C. Villaume, F. Hodgson, Carrell, Godsall, J. B. Kingsford, Wilson, Isaacs, McLeod, and Blair. Misses Connolly, A. Tolmie, R. Fryar, McKinstry, and Crombie.

The article as it was printed in The Telegraph, 14 February 1928. Scan from Trove, National Library of Australia. (Trove, National Library of Australia)