Inscription on reverse reads:- “Grandmother – Mrs Rigg – Wgton. Her daughter Mary Rigg (married Hector ). Flora McDonald (eldest daughter married Ranald A MacDonald). Daughter Mary MacDonald.”

Mrs Rigg of Wellington is seated in the front right of the photo and is wearing a black dress, white shawl, white lace scarf fastened at the throat by a square broach. She has a white lace cap atop her head and a walking stick in her right hand. Mrs Mary McDonald (nee Rigg) stands behind her mother and is wearing a light coloured top with a black lace collar and cuffs. She is also wearing a white, rich lace under-top with a large broach at her throat. Flora MacDonald (nee McDonald) is standing to the right of her mother and is wearing a white dress with a very high neck lace and pintucking. She has a small broach at her throat. She is holding her infant daughter Mary (Dorset) who is dressed in a plain white gown and is barefooted and bareheaded.

Inscription on reverse reads: “Grandmother Mrs Rigg – Wgton. Her daughter Mary Rigg (married Hector). Flora McDonald (eldest daughter married Ranald A MacDonald). Daughter Mary MacDonald.”

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Four women wearing gowns of an earlier period at a Red Cross function.

Left to Right - Mrs Mary Dorset (nee Macdonald), Mrs Nell Martin, unknown, unknown.

Written on the back with blue ballpoint pen - Junior National Party Committee 1946. Bert met me that night – This is what I looked like.

Penciled on back – 38 E3

Stamped on back - Please re-order from numbers above ACME STUDIOS

Junior National Party Committee, 1946

Colourized photo showing 5 people (2 men & 3 women) This photo is pictured in – The Horowhenua-Kapiti Chronicle, saturday, April 1, 2006, with the caption: The committee that ran Levin’s debutante balls from 1947-1952 was, from left, Mary Dorset nee McDonald, Dick Denton, Nola Fullarton nee Walker, George Hudson, and Jean Walker nee Sorensen.

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nee Mary Macdonald, daughter of Flora McDonald and grand daughter of Hector Hugh McDonald (eldest son of Hector and Agnes McDonald, early settlers of Levin).