camp development

Press, 14 October 1985, Page 13

camp development

to do some work this year. The council then approved Cr Deans’ suggestion. County clerk Mr Warren Brixton has been appointed as the new county clerk and chief executive officer for Malvern County. In a letter, Mr Brixton said he wished to start in February, 1986, to make it easier for his two children to adapt to a different school

Mr Brixton is county manager of the Opotiki County Council and was

formerly county treasurer for Malvern. His initial appointment will be as chief executive officer and he will assume the post of chief executive officer-county clerk on July 1, ISBB, when the present County Clerk, Mr Perrin, retires. Mr Perrin has been Malvern’s County Clerk for 22 years. He has also been clerk of the Selwyn and Mackenzie council councils. He has spent 40 years as a local body officer. Mr Perrin intends to retire in Darfield. Mowing charges The practice of charging

residents when council staff mowed their grass verges was questioned by Cr R. EL White. He said there were “vast amounts of verges out in the country” which the council mowed and kept tidy but it made no charge to the adjoining property owners. Many elderly people could not mow their own verges and Cr White did not think they should be charged when the council mowed them for them. Cr White was told roadside verges out of the townships were mowed to reduce fire risk and that mowing charges were under review.