Contributed by Margaret Sayer

The photograph published below is of the ladies who worked at Doug Golding’s doll factory in Wharf Street, Paeroa. The factory was in the old ex-Civic Picture Theatre, which burnt down in 1948 or 1949.

The dolls had cloth bodies and china faces, with red hair.

Back row: Doug Golding, Mrs Bunting, Mrs Leadbetter, Mrs Pye, Mrs Kurtovich, Mrs Brocklehurst, Mrs Vi Wallace, Mona -, Mabel Brown, ?, Mrs A O’Neil, ?, - Suisted, ? Front row: Val Burgess, Marie George, Rita Scott, Doreen Royal, ?, ?, Shirley Smith, ?, Val Mathieson, ?	"Showing off" their dolls, Christmas 1946 Glenice Milroy, Rosalie Morran, Lynette Wilson, Margaret Morran

(Editor’s note: Can any of the blanks be filled in?)