Charlotte Cunningham (14), of Waitaki Girls' High School, tests her dribbling skills at the North Otago turf at Centennial Park yesterday as Caleb Jopson (15), Jordon Cunningham (15, centre) and Briana Balcombe (16) look on. Photo: Hamish Maclean
A new turf should be in place on the well-used Oamaru grounds before the start of the next hockey season on April 1, North Otago Recreational Turf Trust chairman Ray Simpson said.
The $420,000 project to replace the 17-year-old recreational turf got a $95,000 funding boost from the Otago Community Trust on Sunday, and the trust had set aside $140,000 to replace the playing surface, which had benefited from a ``very strict maintenance management programme''.
The principal user of the turf, the North Otago Hockey Association, has about 600 members.
