Two Picton women selling homemade knitted golliwog dolls have been asked to stop after offending tourists. The Marlborough District Council received two complaints from cruise ship tourists over the summer about the dolls being sold in Picton. The council has asked the Picton Lions, who run the cruise ship market, to no longer allow the sale of the dolls. Picton women Cathy Dalzell and Rata Steele have been making the "gollys" for five years. "They are absolutely welcome to sell any other sort of dolls whatsoever, but the council has requested that they not sell golliwogs anymore."

Source: Stuff March 13, 2019 04:18 UTC