The playing surface was ripped up by a vehicle at the weekend, in an incident Dunedin City Council parks and recreation general manager Robert West called disappointing.
Acting Senior Sergeant Anthony Bond said police were called to reports of a suspicious vehicle with its doors open at The Kensington pub at 12.16am on Saturday.
"On examination police believed the vehicle had been stolen," he said,
and had been driven around the nearby Oval field.
"After talking to the manager and security at the bar it was made aware to police that the kegs in the back seat of the vehicle and the bottles of alcohol had been stolen from The Kensington.''
After watching security footage, police were able to identify an offender. A 21-year-old man was arrested and charged with burglary.
The vehicle was impounded for 28 days.
Inquiries were continuing into who was driving the vehicle on the Oval.
A Dunedin City Council spokesman was yesterday unable to say how much the damage would cost to repair, or how long it would take.
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Do such repairs ever get fully refunded to the DCC or whoever owns that damaged property? Or do the courts generally let the person(s) off with a lesser penalty? Who pays in the end if not the one who does the damage? Is it an Insurance company or the ratepayers?