Wakatipu Hockey Club members (from left) Briar Dennison (12), Madeline McNay (12), Chelsea Wood (12), and Elliot Kay (11) turned up for training yesterday to find the club’s equipment gone. PHOTO: DAISY HUDSONThieves have made off with $5000 worth of hockey equipment, leaving Queenstown youngsters without the means to practise properly. Sticks, cones, bibs, balls and specialist training equipment paid for through years of community grants have gone missing from the Wakatipu Hockey Club’s temporary training ground in Frankton. It was all stored in a 1.5m by 0.6m blue, steel tool box, padlockedshut, chained and padlocked to a fence, club president Karyn Battrick said. Police confirmed that they were investigating, but Mrs Battrick said the club would be happy if the training equipment was handed in to the events centre, no questions asked.

Source: Otago Daily Times June 01, 2021 16:30 UTC