West Toowoomba croquet ladies hold a bridge party for the Red Cross

Groupings of rainbow tinted flowers and ferns decked the pavilion at the West Toowoomba Bowling Club yesterday when the members of the West Toowoomba Ladies' Croquet Club organised a bridge party in aid of the funds of the Toowoomba Branch of the Red Cross Society and the Prisoners of War Fund. The visitors, who included the Mayoress (Mrs. J. D. Annand), were received by the president of the club (Mrs. C. J. Searle). She was assisted by the secretary (Mrs. V. Stuart) and the treasurer (Mrs. M. F. O'Connell). The bridge players included Mesdames H. H. Cay, J. McNeill, W. H. King, W. McNeill, W. Warneke, M. Godsall, A. McBride, E. McConachie, Edward Gold, R. W. McLean, F. Bullock, B. Padget, F. W. Denny, Norman McDonald, Keith Jefferies, H. J. O'Brien, T. G. Taylor, M. Wallis, A. Baxter, A. V. Meagher, F. J. Pigott, G. McStay, A. A. Stephenson, T. P. O'Brien, W. Miller, F. C. McCrystal, P. Burraston, V. Stuart, J. Ferguson, J. Bourne, R. McGovern, S. Jarrott, G. H. Harrington, C. F. Robinson, J. Switzer, R. F. Bourne, E. P. Grenier, W. Outridge, W. Dean, C. Bamberry, T. Walker, R. W. Gow, A. S. Recourt, J. A. Cran, R. J. Lyon, R. Stone, S. Johnson, P. C. Bergin, E. Kingsford, W. Peet, W. Hayes, F. Bongers, R. Relton, C. E. Higgins, S. Dennis, A. J. Dayas, A. B. Beer, Hayes, G. W. Matthews, F. Brennan, J. Landy, M. Duggan, A. T. Parrot, J. Riley, T. B. Quane, G. Wagner, Searle, D. F. Marshall, A. S. Furness, Marlay, J. R. King, Heuschele, V. R. Woodhill, P. Rhead, C. Chapman, B. Farr, B. Kunneman, H. Samuels, S. H. Andrews, T. Riethmuller, Farrington, Mawson, E. McKenzie, A. R. Orr, P. S. Priest, W. Frood, L. Cooke, F. M. Smith, W. Elvery, E. Stanton, S. Stark, Wilson, Chatham, M. F. O'Connell, W. Hesling, Collie, Kerr, J. Flegler, J. Warner, B. Ziegler, A. W. Unger, C. F. Wood, Delamothe, C. Thomason, H. Tilbury, H. S. McLean, C. Healy, P. J. Barron, V. E. Greet, and F. O'Neill, Misses G. Carey, O. Campbell, M. Riordan, M. Dever, Webb, E. Campbell, R. Fryar, and H. Armstrong.

The article as it was printed in The Toowoomba Chronicle, 15 September 1942. Scan from Trove, National Library of Australia. (Trove, National Library of Australia)