Petanque players perplexed by pile pinchers

Dunedin City Petanque club president Phillip Lyall is surrounded by holes that are supposed to contain wooden piles for the club's new premises. Photo: Peter McIntosh
Dunedin City Petanque club president Phillip Lyall is surrounded by holes that are supposed to contain wooden piles for the club's new premises. Photo: Peter McIntosh
Dunedin City Petanque club members are livid after someone had the boules to steal half the foundations of their new club house.

President Phillip Lyall said the club was building a club house in Mornington, next to the Zingari Richmond Football Club, but construction had been delayed because about 30 of the prefabricated building's wooden piles had been taken on Wednesday night.

Half of the piles had been cemented in place and the other half were sitting in holes ready to be cemented in place, he said.

''We're pretty disappointed really ... highly brassed off.

''It's pretty cheeky.''

Mr Lyall said the piles only cost about $400, but it was the principle of the matter.

''We've been fundraising for the last four and a-half years for this. We've raised about $40,000.

''It's just going to cost us even more money to replace them.

''We've been working hard to get this club off the ground, it's going to do some good in the community, and someone's come along and put a spanner in the works.''

Despite the setback, Mr Lyall believed construction would be completed in time for the club to host the 2017 Petanque New Zealand National Singles Championship on October 7 and 8.

john.lewis@odt.co.nz

 

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