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| The Mt Maunganui Croquet Club, undated photograph Image courtesy of Tauranga Heritage Collection, Ref. 24842 |
Some time ago a photograph of women enjoying a game of croquet at the Tauranga Domain in the early 1900s featured on this blog. Here is another group of croquet playing women but this time at the base of the Mount possibly in the 1930s or 1940s.
‘The Mt Maunganui Croquet Club’ has been handwritten on the reverse of this photograph. While there are no details of a Mount Maunganui Croquet Club in A History of Mount Maunganui, there is mention of a women’s bowling club in the 1940s occupying the site where the Mount Hot Pools are now located.
Having lived at the Mount for 3 years I can recognize where this is.
ReplyDeleteThey maybe took over from the men's bowling, when the blokes decided to take their bowls elsewhere? (See a later blog on this site....)
ReplyDeleteThe outfits look more like the 1920s to me-- so 20s/30s?
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