Appointment of the Eastern Region Fish and Game Council to Control and Manage a Wildlife Management Reserve Thornton Lagoon Wildlife Management Reserve Pursuant to section 29 of the Reserves Act 1977, and to a delegation from the Minister of Conservation, the Regional Conservator of the Bay of Plenty Conservancy of the Department of Conservation, hereby appoints the Eastern Region Fish and Game Council to control and manage that part of the Thornton Lagoon Wildlife Management Reserve described in the Schedule hereto, as a Government purpose (wildlife management) reserve, subject to the provisions of the said Act. The appointment to control and manage the said part of the Thornton Lagoon Wildlife Management Reserve is effective from the 1st day of July 1993 and is subject to review after 25 years. The Eastern Region Fish and Game Council (ERFGC) is required to comply with the following general provisions relating to the administration of the reserve. (a) Department of Conservation staff to have access to the reserve for management and monitoring purposes. (b) No live cabbage trees to be cut down or removed from the reserve. (c) No planting of invasive exotic species to be carried out. (d) ERFGC to be responsible for fire-fighting and any local authority rates payable in respect of the part of the reserve under ERFGC control. (e) ERFGC to participate with the Department of Conservation in management planning required for the reserve, by the end of 1995. (f) ERFGC to share equally with the Department of Conservation the cost of renovation and maintenance of those fences on the boundary dividing the reserve between ERFGC and Department of Conservation administered parts of the reserve. Schedule South Auckland Land District Whakatane District Thornton Lagoon Wildlife Management Reserve 48.1300 hectares, more or less, being the south western part of the reserve described as area ``A'' on S.O. Plan 59845, and being part Allotment 274, Rangitaiki Parish, situated in Block V, Awaateatua Survey District. Part New Zealand Gazette, 1975, page 16 and 1979, page 3308. Recorded on N.Z.M.S. 261 W15, Sheet 1.2. Dated at Rotorua this 30th day of May 1994. D. A. FIELD, Regional Conservator, Department of Conservation. (DOC C.O. RWL 033)1/1