Money worries force review of options

The reality of feeding his family on part-time wages may lead to highly successful Wairarapa Hockey regional development officer Jesse Workman seeking a job elsewhere.
Workman is marrying his partner Sherry in December and, as the couple have two children Mia, 2, and Taine, 7 months, working 25 hours a week is proving a financially hard ask, especially as Workman has finished his university degree and can no longer supplement his income with student loan money.
Content to stay until the end of the year, Workman nevertheless has confirmed he may have to seek a fulltime sports management position elsewhere.
His Massey University degree was in sports management and Workman fully realises expecting Wairarapa Hockey to be able to give him more hours _ and therefore more money _ is not an easy task for the sport.
''Hopefully we will be able to work something out.
''I have been in the job for three years and had been supporting my wage with student loans, but that has stopped now.''
Complicating matters financially is Workman's own success in hockey.
He has been selected for the New Zealand Maori side to go to Fiji in November and will have away trips to Dunedin and Auckland for games in other competitions.
As a player he has to pay his own way, although he thankfully has sponsorship through Kookaburra for hockey gear.
Workman said his job as regional development officer was ''great'', but he also realised hockey in Wairarapa had shelled out quite a bit of money in recent times for the benefit of the sport as a whole.
This has included the installation of a new turf and also the building of a new pavilion at Clareville.
There were no guarantees that some outside funding would be as easily available in the next year.
Workman is one of the district's outstanding players through his attachment with Dalefield in the Wellington premier competition and comes from a family whose name is synonymous with the sport.
His father Jeff Workman, who died earlier this year, was a top hockey player and coach.