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Clubs of Marlborough chief executive consultant Dan Roos with his stepson Luca Curnow, 9, pictured after he won player of the day for Moutere Rugby.
The man brought in to steer the embattled Clubs of Marlborough out of debt will be on deck 5.30pm to 9.30pm, six days a week, rather than the usual 9-to-5. The new consultant chief executive Dan Roos has been using his evening office hours to meet with members about the future of their club, estimating he has received more than 100 suggestions and ideas from passionate patrons in his first three weeks on the job. The stepfather-of-one, in his early 30s, will keep his day job as general manager of CMT Group, which has about 70 staff, and brings experience with membership models from previous work as national operations manager for a fitness brand with 25 clubs across the country.
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Monday, 14 December 2020, 4:10 pm
Back in in the late 1960s, some forward thinking people
in Marlborough’s then local government bodies thought it
would be a good idea to plant pine trees on large tracts of
unproductive land to promote soil stabilisation and to
generate funding from logging.
In 1995 revenue from
logging started to be realised, taking financial pressure
off the region’s ratepayers and generating funds for a
wide range of community facilities and projects.
That
original vision has reaped enormous rewards for the
Marlborough region, said Councillor Gerald Hope, who chairs
the Marlborough Regional Forestry Joint
Committee.
“Marlborough was lucky to have had
Monday, 14 December, 2020 - 16:15
Back in in the late 1960s, some forward thinking people in Marlborough’s then local government bodies thought it would be a good idea to plant pine trees on large tracts of unproductive land to promote soil stabilisation and to generate funding from logging.
In 1995 revenue from logging started to be realised, taking financial pressure off the region’s ratepayers and generating funds for a wide range of community facilities and projects.
That original vision has reaped enormous rewards for the Marlborough region, said Councillor Gerald Hope, who chairs the Marlborough Regional Forestry Joint Committee. Marlborough was lucky to have had forward thinkers such as Mayor Sid Harling who chaired the Marlborough Local Bodies Forestry Committee from May 1968. The committee’s arguments were persuasive but they had to jump through many hoops to get the idea off the ground. There were councillors to persuade on the four Marlborough councils and