The three children who died in a Manawatu house fire in New Zealand have been identified in an online fundraiser for their mother.

The page, created by one of the woman's close friends, named the children as August, Hugo, and Goldie.

Just after 10am on Monday it was sitting at a total of just over NZ$140,000 ($121,630), having well exceeded the goal of $100,000 ($86,878).

Police confirmed on Sunday night they had recovered the bodies of two of the children and their father, who Stuff understands is Dean Field.

They said work would resume to locate the body of the third child on Monday morning and a scene guard was in place overnight.

According to a neighbour, the children who died - two boys and a girl, were aged 1, 5, and 7.

Emergency services were called to the fire at the Sa

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