In brief

Press, 15 February 1989, Page 3

In brief

woman hit by car A woman, aged 63, struck by a car on a pedestrian crossing in Williams Street, Kaiapoi, late yesterday morning, died later in Christchurch Hospital. Her name has been withheld until relatives are told. ‘Nicholas Nickleby’ off Posters advertising “Nicholas Nickleby” throughout Christchurch will have to come down because the show has been cancelled. “The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby” was to be staged at the Theatre Royal from February 22 to February 25, but the Melbourne Theatre Co-operative cancelled the show because of poor advance bookings. “Nicholas Nickleby” was to be presented in two parts, of 8y 2 hours in all, with more than 150 roles played by 36 actors and 12 musicians. The Theatre Royal is refunding bookings. School milk is back School milk is back in Christchurch this week after a 30-year break. Twenty schools started selling 300 ml cartons of chilled milk for 40c on Monday. Ten cents from each carton sold goes to the school. Canterbury Dairy Farmers is packaging the milk. The 20 schools will test demand among schoolchildren. Some Wellington schools, that have been selling milk, have already raised enough money to buy computers. River plan assessed The environmental impact of a Christchurch Drainage Board plan for the Heathcote River is being assessed. This is a compromise plan for the river, called Scheme VB, involving less river-widening and less cost than an earlier plan. Boffa Miskell and Partners is preparing a report on landscape, recreation, wildlife and groundwater, and the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries is surveying fish in the river. Short-changed A Northcote businessman was short-changed and left stranded by two women in Newton late on Monday, the “Auckland Star” reported. The man had been sitting in his car when approached by the two, and the police say he agreed “to enter in sexual activity” with them. They drove to a nearby car-park and one woman helped the man take his trousers off. She then leapt out of the car with the trousers — and the man’s wallet with about $4OO in it. The other woman ran the other way with the car keys. Both were later arrested. Both face theft charges.