Club celebrates its seventh birthday

The president and members of the West Toowoomba Croquet Club celebrated their seventh birthday with an attractively arranged tea party at the courts yesterday afternoon. During the afternoon there were a number of interesting croquet competitions and tea was served in the Bowling Club's pavilion which was beautifully decorated for the occasion with a profusion of dahlias, gerberas, bouvardia and roses, arranged in brass bowls. The president's table was entirely arranged with roses and pink antigone. A birthday cake, iced in white and silver and surmounted with seven red and white candles (the club's colours), occupied the centre of the table, and a smaller cake, iced in pink and decorated with croquet mallets, hoops and balls, was the gift of Mr. J. France (president of the Bowling Club). The birthday cake was the work of Miss Loretta Parrot. The committee includes Mesdames A. T. Parrot (president), R. Walsh and R. McLean (vice-presidents), S. Stuart, (hon. treasurer), J. Krimmer (hon. secretary), E. A. Baker, S. Norris, F. J. McKenzie, O'Connell, F. Bullock, A. Wilson and Miss Fryar (captain). In addition to the committee those present included Lady Groom, the Mayoress (Mrs. F. J. Paterson), Mesdames J. D. Annand, R. Lowe, L. French, L. Page, A. M. Dwyer, P. J. Barron, J. Doyle, J. E. McLean, Campbell-Hunter, E. Bruggeman, C. Bowdler, D. Sheehan, G. Hill, D. McNaught, Thoms, J. France, A. McNaught (Townsville), F. Hodgson, E. Stewart, A. G. Wagner, Dowse, H. Falconer, M. Dines, O. Booth, F. Bridgman, J. McKinney, G. Cossart H. Gooderich, B. Krimmer, W. Miller, C. Porter, R. Hazard, Healy, Richardson, C. Searle, W. Hooper, G. Fogarty, W. Duggan, A. V. Graham, B. Marshall, J. Clark, C. Blair, E. McConachie, J. Lee, Crowther, J. Rogers, Morrow, B. Padget, E. J. Rowe, Dutton, W. Catherwood (Brisbane), J. Smallhorn, C. Burness, J. Esler, H. Wilson, Misses N. Walsh, M. Collins, Wright, N. Hazard, O'Connell, M. Crowther, E. Campbell, L. Parrot, Frances C. Hooper, C. McConachie, M. France, M. Williams, Wilson, Benn, Bebbington.

The article as it was printed in The Toowoomba Chronicle, 21 February 1933. Scan from Trove, National Library of Australia. (Trove, National Library of Australia)