West Toowoomba celebrates its pennant win with a social afternoon

To celebrate the winning of the 1949 Darling Downs croquet pennant by their club, the members of the West Toowoomba Croquet Club held a social afternoon yesterday when the pennant was presented and unfurled by the president of the Queensland Croquet Association (Mrs. J. Gibson). Competitions were played on the lawns, and afternoon tea was served in the club house, which was gaily adorned with groupings of palms and poinsettias. The snowy cloths, which covered the long tables were studded charmingly with miniature crystal vases filled with blossom heads in varied shades of pink and blue. An added colour note to the decorative scheme on the tables was provided by the trails of crimson holly berries set in deep green foliage shells.

The president of the club (Mrs. E. A. McConachie), assisted by the secretary (Mrs. W. Dean), the treasurer (Mrs. V. Webber), the Press secretary (Mrs K. Sandberg), and the captain (Mrs. J. Flegler) received the visitors, who in addition to Mrs. Gibson, included Mesdames Annand, Gerard Boyce (the president of the 1949 Darling Downs pennant tournament), Dunning (Brisbane) and Rhodes (New Zealand), and members of other Toowoomba croquet clubs. Mrs. Gibson congratulated the members of the West Toowoomba Club on their success, and her remarks were endorsed by Mesdames Dunning, Boyce, Priest (Laurel Bank club), Huxley (St. Andrew's club), and J. B. Mackay (Toowoomba club). Messages of good wishes and congratulatons were received from the Dalby, Warwick and Allora Croquet Clubs. A beautiful cake, made and presented for the occasion by Mrs. McConachie, was cut by Mrs. Annand, and handed round. The floral decorations in the club house were the work of Mrs. Miller.

Mrs. J. Gibson (president of the Queensland Croquet Association) and Mrs. Dunning, a member of the executive of the association, motored to Toowoomba from Brisbane yesterday for the unfurling ceremony of the 1949 Darling Downs pennant at the West Toowoomba Croquet Club.

The article as it was printed in The Toowoomba Chronicle, 21 June 1949. Scan from Trove, National Library of Australia. (Trove, National Library of Australia)