Helped Home
(N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, Feb. 7. More than £6OO has been raised by the combined Glendowie-Glen Innes churches committee to pay fares from England to New Zealand for Mrs Dorothy Neilson, widow of the amateur boxer, Eric Neilson, and her five children.
The family will arrive in Auckland in the Canberra on February 16.
Mr and Mrs Neilson and the family left late in 1964 to visit Mr Neilson’s elderly mother in Birmingham. While there Mr Neilson was hit by a car during a training run and killed. The family was left stranded, without enough money to pay their fares home.
Eric Neilson was twice runner-up in the New Zealand heavy-weight boxing championships and a former Auckland title-holder.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30979, 8 February 1966, Page 2
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