POOL WINNER’S CHARITABLE ACT
LONDON, August 29. Francis Chivers, an ordnance factory policeman, who last April won £75,000 in a football pool, bought a modern semi-detached house for £2OOO to provide accommodation for a homeless Fleetwood woman with four young children. The woman is the English wife of a Dutch fisherman. She had slept with her children, first in a bus shelter and then in a Sunday school hall after they were forced to leave the prefabricated house they had been sharing with a relative. , ~ , . Hearing about the woman s plight, Mr Chivers bought a suitable house, and then presented the homeless family with the keys, so they could move in immediately at any rent they feel able to pay. “How could I be haDPV with all the comforts money has given me, knowing that there was a family in this dreadful predicament. I could not settle down till I had done something about it”, said Mr Ch iv
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Grey River Argus, 1 September 1948, Page 2
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