A ratepayer says he will not be paying the $939.50 Rangitikei District Council has charged him for clearing his overgrown lawn.
Whanganui man Don McMillan owns a property on Mill St in Marton and in November received a letter from the council asking him to cut the grass because it had become a fire hazard.
"I've got high blood pressure, so I just couldn't cope with the lawns any more, so I just gave up on them," he said.
He said he had got a quote to have them mown, which was $30, but a neighbour offered to cut it back and take the grass trimmings away. Mr McMillan said some of the grass had been cut but not all of it.
Since the first letter he received two more notices from the council before a contractor came in and cut the grass.