NEIGHBOURS HELP WIDOW
I £5O Gift To Mrs Nota Residents living near 43 Bentley street have contributed about £5O to assist Mrs Colleen Nota, whose husband and four young children died when an explosion occurred in their home on Thursday night. The house and all their possessions were destroyed. In the week-end residents in the neighbourhood took up a collection in Bentley street and adjoining streets. A correspondent of “The Press” has expressed a wish to help Mrs Nota, and she is being invited to send her contribution to the St. Vincent de Paul Society of the Sockburn parish. The Rev. Father J. Leonard, priest of the parish, said yesterday on behalf of the society’s Sockburn branch, that it would be able to receive any donations from neople Wishing to assist Mrs Nota.
Mrs Nota is staying with her father in Waihi. She is expected to return to Christchurch in five or six weeks' time.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30560, 1 October 1964, Page 18
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