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Quangos in New Zealand developed and proliferated over a long period for much the same reasons as in other comparable countries: to carry out specific, often single, commercial or technical functions, to fund social and cultural activities without direct ministerial accountability, as well as to provide expert advice and research services, and to regulate private activities in the public interest. By the 1980s New Zealand had several ‘non-core departments’, including the Post Office and the Police (a national service), government trading corporations like the railways and broadcasting, statutory producer boards and mixed ownership industrial and commercial enterprises. There were also elected Hospital Boards, Maori Trust Boards (for tribal representation and development) and several hundred special-purpose authorities carrying out functions at local level, ranging from harbours and drainage to electricity power supply and pest destruction. The level of quasi-government organization was high and complex.
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Wistrich, E. (1999). Quangos in New Zealand. In: Flinders, M.V., Smith, M.J. (eds) Quangos, Accountability and Reform. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27027-9_7
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