By CASEY NEILL
DANDENONG Croquet Club will play its final match on Tuesday 28 April.
Member of 10 years Joy Kent said it had been a Dandenong Park fixture for more than 90 years and had 15 members.
It follows the Dandenong City Bowling Club’s closure in February this year.
“The original bowling club members helped to build it for their wives,” Ms Kent said.
City of Greater Dandenong had offered to relocate the clubs and a kindergarten so it could use the site for public open space and to protect a nearby historic Algerian oak.
The impending closure made it hard for the croquet club to hold onto its already-dwindling membership base.
“Our financial year ends at the end of April, so the treasurer has decided on that date to close it,” Ms Kent said.
“Saturday we are having a farewell dinner at the Hallam Hotel.”
She said the Frankston croquet club had invited Dandenong’s members to join and that several were considering the offer.
“It’s a nice gentle exercise and it’s quite a social outing,” Ms Kent said.
