Club's eighth birthday tea party

The West Toowoomba Bowling Club pavilion was a veritable bower of flowers yesterday afternoon, when the President and members of the West Toowoomba Croquet Club gave a charmingly arranged tea party to celebrate their eighth birthday. The pathway, leading from the little arched gateway was bordered with a hedge of fuchsias all abloom, with at their feet low growing pink and red begonias. In the pavilion gay red, green, blue, and yellow pennants formed a canopy. Over the entrance was suspended a great basket of golden glow marigolds, amber gladioli, and white marguerites, and about the room were set on stands bowls of handsome dahlias, blue delphinium, marigolds and golden gleam nasturtiums. The President's table was beautified with crystal bowls of nasturtiums and pale blue delphiniums, and in the centre was a pink and white birthday cake, made and presented by the President, Mrs. A. T. Parrot, set in a ruching of amber fringed paper, and set with eight red and white candles (the club's colours). Other tables were arranged with roses, gerberas, nasturtiums, delphiniums, dahlias, and amber primulus gladioli. The early part of the afternoon was spent with competitions, including bell, crazy, bagatelle, angle, feather, and clock croquet, for which charming prizes were given. Bouquets, made and given to the club by Miss Searle, were presented to Mrs. Parrot and to the Mayoress (Mrs. J. Douglas Annand), by the honorary secretary (Mrs. J. Krimmer). After tea, Mrs. Parrot welcomed the guests, and Mrs. Annand and Mrs. Oswald Booth (patroness and president of the Toowoomba Club), responded. Mrs. Holmes, spoke for the Pittsworth club, and Mrs. J. A. C. Wilson for the Gatton Club. A pleasant little ceremony was the cutting of the cake by the President. The following members of the committee were present, in addition to Mrs. Parrot and Mrs. Krimmer: Mesdames R. Walsh, and R. E. M'Lean (vice-presidents), S. Stuart (honorary treasurer)), W. Miller (captain), E. A. Baker (vice-captain), A. Wilson, B. Krimmer, M. F. O'Connell, A. B. Carter, and Miss Rene Fryar. Also present were the Mayoress (Mrs. J. Douglas Annand), Mesdames O. Booth, C. Fortescue, Mervyn Dines, F. Hodgson, J. Lee, A. Grahame, H. Goodrich, W. Hooper, F. Isaacs, J. Esler, E. Bridgman, J. J. Holmes, and J. Flegler (Pittsworth)), J. A. C. Wilson, G. Byrne, N. Cran, and Yates (Gatton), J. France, F. Bullock, E. Stewart, C. Searle, C. Healy, A. G. Wagner, J. D. Clarke, B. Padget, E. A. M'Conachie, A. E. Carrell, Mitchell, A. H. Gaydon, H. Tudor, J. Lynch, R. W. Thomas, L. Atkinson, N. M'Donald, V. Langmead, A. J. Dayas, J. Ferguson, Davidson, M. Ryan, P. J. Barron, A. M. Dwyer, P. R. Carstens, D. Weir, J. M. Stocker, R. Fitzgerald, A. E. Richardson, J. Doyle. H. Wilson, N. E. Keable, H. M'Lean, A. L. Dowse, D. M'Naught, Misses E. Campbell, N. Crowther, D. France, M. France, E. Goddard, M. O'Connell, Wilson, Betty Annand, Flegler, and Loretta Parrot.

The article as it was printed in The Toowoomba Chronicle, 20 February 1934. Scan from Trove, National Library of Australia. (Trove, National Library of Australia)