$50,000 for Merry Estate facilities

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32604, 12 May 1971, Page 18

$50,000 for Merry Estate facilities

Finance amounting to about $50,000 for facilities in addition to those to be provided by the Christchurch City Council, will probably be needed by the Canterbury Hockey Association for its new grounds at the Merry Estate, Kerr’s Reach.

The chairman of the management committee (Mr T. I. Crossen) said at the association’s meeting last evening that some action would have to be taken soon. The additional facilities required were lighting, an all-weather surface, and water reticulation for the summer.

Suggestions made by Mr Crossen for raising finance included the reinvestment of money which the association had already put aside but at a higher rate of interest; a dollar-for-dollar subsidy from the Golden Kiwi funds; and a debenture scheme involving about $lO,OOO to which clubs would be asked to subscribe.

PLAYER AWARDS The four awards which were to be made at the end of the IWI season to the most improved players in senior, colts’ and secondary and primary schools’ grades, wIU now be made early next month. , , The awards, elven by O’Brien's Footwear, wU! be made on competition games to the end of this month, and matches last season will also be taken into consideration. Temporary suspensions.—ln future, any player temporarUy suspended during a match will have his name taken by the umpire who will inform the assodauon’s register-keeper of the

suspension. Any player incurring three suspensions In a season will appear before the judiciary committee.