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 New Zealand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Although the New Zealand Government continues to own a number of significant businesses, collectively known as State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), they are operated through arms-length shareholding arrangements as stand-alone businesses that are required to operate profitably, just like any privately owned enterprise.
New Zealand was involved in a Constitutional Convention in March 1891 in Sydney, New South Wales, along with the then-colonies of Australia.
Elizabeth II is the Queen of New Zealand and is represented in the country by a non-political Governor-General.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Zealand   (4387 words)

  
 New Zealand (09/05)
The restructuring and sale of government-owned enterprises in the 1990s reduced government's role in the economy and permitted the retirement of some public debt.
Branches: Executive--Queen Elizabeth II (chief of state, represented by a governor general), prime minister (head of government), cabinet.
The turn of the century brought sweeping social reforms that built the foundation for New Zealand's version of the welfare state.
www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/35852.htm   (4191 words)

  
 New Zealand Country Profile
New Zealand plans to restructure ECNZ into three competing State-owned enterprises (SOEs) which are commercially viable entities and effective competitors to reach this goal.
New Zealand Post's letter-delivery monopoly ended to some extent in 1998 with several smaller companies entering the market, and the Government has increased competition in the electricity market by breaking-up the state-owned Electricity Corporation of New Zealand (ECNZ) into three separate entities.
And, within this sectoral evolution, New Zealand's longer term track record of socio-economic policies for privatization and enterprises are now being tempered with certain short-term measures which are diluting and delaying that process and the much needed inward investor confidence to stimulate and support diversification and growth.
www.hawaii.gov /dbedt/ert/cp/newze.html   (2528 words)

  
 State-owned enterprise - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A state-owned enterprise (SOE) is an enterprise, often a corporation, owned by a government.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/State_owned_enterprise   (50 words)

  
 Hillsdale College
He also served as Minister of Employment, Minister of State Owned Enterprises, Minister of Railways, Minister of Works and Development, Minister of Labour and Minister of Immigration.
New Zealand’s per capita income in the period prior to the late 1950s was right around number three in the world, behind the United States and Canada.
To give you one example, we lost only about three-quarters of one percent of the farming enterprises – and these were people who shouldn’t have been farming in the first place.
www.hillsdale.edu /newimprimis/2004/april/default.htm   (3578 words)

  
 Crime Prevention Unit New Zealand: Crime Reduction Strategy - Areas - Theft from cars
These recommendations are non-binding except in relation to particular assets, including forestry assets and other assets, owned or formerly owned by State Owned Enterprises and certain other state institutions.
The Head of State of New Zealand (Queen Elizabeth II) who is represented by the Governor-General.
New Zealand's constitution, which is the foundation of our legal system, is drawn from a number of important statutes, judicial decisions, and customary rules known as constitutional conventions.
www.justice.govt.nz /pubs/other/pamphlets/2001/legal_system.html   (2755 words)

  
 Te Puna Web Directory > NZ > Government, Law and Politics > Central Government > State Owned Enterprises
Te Puna Web Directory > NZ > Government, Law and Politics > Central Government > State Owned Enterprises
The Government's shareholding ministers are the Minister of Finance and the Minister of State Owned Enterprises.
Transpower is the New Zealand state-owned enterprise that owns and operates the network of transmission lines, substations, switchyards and control centres collectively known as the national grid.
webdirectory.natlib.govt.nz /dir/en/nz/government-law-and-politics/central-government/state-owned-enterprises   (638 words)

  
 Government Enterprises - New Zealand Economic & Financial Overview 2003 - The Treasury
State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) are required to operate on the basis of principles and procedures contained in the State-Owned Enterprises Act 1986.
Crown Entity is a collective term for bodies owned by the Crown that are not departments, Offices of Parliament or State-Owned Enterprises.
(1) Except for those entities listed below, all State-Owned Enterprises and significant Crown Entities have a balance date of 30 June, and the information reported in these tables is for the period ended 30 June 2002.
www.treasury.govt.nz /nzefo/2003/government.asp   (590 words)

  
 Monthly return of New Zealand Interest Bearing Securities held for Non-Residents
State Owned Enterprises include New Zealand corporations which are majority-owned by the government.
Other Government include local authorities, state-owned enterprises, and other New Zealand enterprises majority owned by the government.
They may also involve a promise to pay stated interest at specified intervals over the term of the bond.
www.rbnz.govt.nz /statistics/govfin/dd/survey.html   (612 words)

  
 KiwiCareers - Literary Arts
Although not an indicator of the state of the literary arts industry overall, the survey did illustrate that a large number of New Zealanders buy, borrow and read books, and that there is a high interest in books with New Zealand content.
Wilson and Horton Limited and Independent Newspapers Ltd (INL) owned a majority of New Zealand's newspapers until 2001.
The highest proportion of art enterprises were in the Auckland (52%) and Wellington (21%) regions.
www.kiwicareers.govt.nz /industry/i11_cul/i11d_lit.htm   (1775 words)

  
 State-Owned Enterprises of New Zealand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
State-Owned Enterprises in New Zealand (known as SOEs) are registered companies listed under Schedules 1 and 2 of the State-Owned Enterprises Act 1986.
In the case of SOEs these are usually the Minister of State-Owned Enterprises and the Minister responsible for the particular company.
Schedule 1 (State Enterprises), State-Owned Enterprises Act 1986 as amended
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/State-Owned_Enterprises_of_New_Zealand   (501 words)

  
 1997299.txt
Amendment to State-Owned Enterprises Act 1986---The State-Owned Enterprises Act 1986 is amended by omitting from the First Schedule, and also from the Second Schedule, the words ``Trans Power New Zealand Limited'' (as inserted by clauses 2 and 3 of the State-Owned Enterprises Order 1994), and substituting in each case the words ``Transpower New Zealand Limited''.
Title and commencement---(1) This order may be cited as the State-Owned Enterprises (Transpower New Zealand Limited) Order 1997.
This order amends a number of enactments by changing references from Trans Power New Zealand Limited to Transpower New Zealand Limited to reflect a recent change in the name of that State enterprise.
www.knowledge-basket.co.nz /regs/regs/text/1997/1997299.txt   (461 words)

  
 New Zealand faces winter of discontent - 6 April 2002
While supporting a free enterprise economic system, New Zealand First supports a national compulsory superannuation scheme, secure from political tampering, and industry policies which are based on encouraging businesses to engage in import substitution.
The Nationals are committed to Kiwibank's privatisation, as well as that of Air New Zealand, which was recapitalised by the NZ Government with $NZ885 million, after the collapse of its Australian subsidiary, Ansett Airlines, seven months ago.
With elections due in New Zealand by the end of the year, the Labour Party may retain government, despite lukewarm enthusiasm for the Government of Helen Clark which has seen a fall in its popularity in the opinion polls.
www.newsweekly.com.au /articles/2002apr6_nz.html   (973 words)

  
 50 years of NZ TV & Radio captured
It starts with the 1950s, when only the State’s voice was heard and news broadcasts were politically controlled.
New Zealand broadcasting has been a topic of great public interest and plays a significant role on forming our ideas of identity and nation.
In 1989, the Labour Government established the Broadcasting Commission – soon to be dubbed New Zealand On-Air – who allocated licence fee revenue in return for public service programming.
www.waikato.ac.nz /news/index.shtml?article=92   (405 words)

  
 Welcome to Indian High Commission, New Zealand
Queen Elizabeth II is the titular head of state as the queen of New Zealand.
New Zealand is one of the smallest OECD economies and is heavily dependent on overseas trade.
New Zealand consists of two large islands i.e North and South islands and a number of smaller islands having a total area of 2,70,500 sq kms similar to the size of Japan or UK.
www.hicomind.org.nz /indo_nz_relations.htm   (1148 words)

  
 Business in New Zealand
New Zealand's building legislation now has a simple structure: there is one Building Act and one set of Building Regulations which includes the building code.
Paerewa Aotearoa Standards New Zealand publish documents that set out the minimum requirements necessary to ensure that a material, structure, product, method, or system will do the job it is intended to do.
ABCheckers an English language consultancy which was set up in 1995 by a group of New Zealand teachers who wanted to use the Internet to help people improve their English.
www.enzed.com /bus.html   (1259 words)

  
 Serebella Contents State---Owned Enterprises of New Zealand-Statecraft
A political division of a federation retaining a degree of autonomy, for example one of the fifty United States.
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www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/contains-408420-408423-State-Owned_Enterprises_of_New_Zealand-Statecraft.html   (274 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: New Zealand Post Office
At that date, the department was abolished under the Postal Services Act 1987, and three state-owned enterprises (SOEs) -- New Zealand Post Limited, Telecom Corporation of New Zealand Limited (Telecom) and Post Office Savings Bank Limited (PostBank) -- were formed.
Telecom was sold to two United States baby bells, and PostBank was sold to the Pacific banking conglomerate ANZ.
Later on, as per the conditions of Telecom's privatisation, it was floated in the early 1990s on the New Zealand Stock Exchange.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/New-Zealand-Post-Office   (172 words)

  
 State-Owned Enterprises and Privatisation
New Zealand has made large gains in recent years by requiring state-owned enterprises to be run as successful businesses and exposing their markets to competition.
As a model, the New Zealand policy of corporatising state-owned enterprises (SOEs) is probably the best that can be devised, given continued public ownership, for getting satisfactory returns on taxpayers' investments while still enabling non-commercial goals to be pursued.
Some state-owned enterprises have been efficient and well-managed for some periods, but government ownership seldom permits sustained good performance for more than a few years.
www.nzbr.org.nz /documents/speeches/speeches-91-92/matthpriv.doc.htm   (1224 words)

  
 Postal Services in New Zealand
Shareholders on behalf of Her Majesty the Queen of New Zealand (the Crown) are the Minister of Finance and the Minister for State-Owned Enterprises.
New Zealand Post Limited has made impressive gains in efficiency since establishment as a State-Owned Enterprise (SOE).
New Zealand Post was also required to disclose financial information, to ensure that it does not take advantage of its statutory monopoly in one market to cross-subsidise other activities where it faces competition, or to reduce service levels.
www.med.govt.nz /pbt/post_pol/postleaf.html   (3175 words)

  
 The Hindu : New Zealand Minister sees scope for better ties with India
New Zealand favoured reconvening of Fiji's Parliament and installation of a government of national unity (to be formed on non-discriminatory, democratic basis).
New Zealand was increasingly becoming a multi-cultural country, with persons of Indian origin forming the third largest group among immigrants.
New Zealand, like some other countries, had reacted sharply to India's nuclear tests in 1998 but that phase - recalling it High Commissioner to signify protest - was a thing of the past.
www.hinduonnet.com /2001/03/08/stories/0208000i.htm   (486 words)

  
 Broadcasting In New Zealand
TVNZ's board provided assurances that BCL would be neutral in its dealings with private enterprise, other state-owned organisations and TVNZ's own broadcasting operations.
The Broadcasting Corporation of New Zealand (BCNZ), a statutory corporation, exercised a monopoly in television services until 1987 when, pursuant to a Government Direction, the Broadcasting Tribunal completed hearings and authorised the establishment of a third television network, TV3, the first privately-owned network.
The respective boards were asked to reflect New Zealand's identity and culture, and to encourage New Zealand programming within their mandate to operate in a commercial manner.
www.med.govt.nz /pbt/broadcas/broad.html   (1532 words)

  
 Beehive.govt.nz - State Owned Enterprises
State Owned Enterprises Minister Mark Burton said he is satisfied that New Zealand Post has taken appropriate steps to ensure that current redundancy provisions are reasonable and in line with standard practice.
Minister for State Owned Enterprises Mark Burton is today congratulating MetService on securing a contract for their Weatherscape XT graphics package with the BBC.
Minister for State Owned Enterprises (SOE’s) Mark Burton is impressed by the achievements outlined in the annual report tabled today by MetService.
www.beehive.govt.nz /Portfolio.aspx?PortfolioID=52   (318 words)

  
 The New Zealand Government Directory - Logon
New Zealand, Spain and the US were competing for two seats on the Court.
New Zealand’s next Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office in Geneva, and Ambassador for Disarmament, will be career diplomat Don MacKay, Foreign Minister Winston Peters has announced.
New Zealand has brought cases before it twice, both related to French nuclear testing in the Pacific.
www.nzgovtdirectory.com   (4331 words)

  
 New Zealand First
place a "buy New Zealand first" requirement on taxpayer and ratepayer owned businesses and state owned enterprises; and,
New Zealand First's economic policy prescription is based on a partnership with the people in promoting sustainable export-led economic growth that will lead to job creation and enable the savings that will facilitate our social progress.
New Zealand First maintains that in the absence of a truly even playing field for trade, we must always act in New Zealand's best interests and not naively pursue free trade simply to appease other nations.
www.nzfirst.org.nz /policies/trade.php   (516 words)

  
 List of MPs
Former Associate Spokesperson for Overseas Trade, and State-Owned Enterprises.
Represented New Zealand Parliament at Parliamentarians for Global Action forums since 1994; Member of Parliamentarians for Global Action’s Executive Board 1997-2003, and International Council 2004.
Served on local and regional government; Mäori Senior Vice-president of the New Zealand Labour Party 1985-97.
www.nzgovtdirectory.com /directory/section1/MP/Labour/MP_r_y.htm   (702 words)

  
 SEEDLIN3.HTM
Two new State Owned Enterprises, Asure New Zealand Ltd and AgriQuality New Zealand Ltd, serving the food and agricultural sector began trading from 1st November.
On the new form this box is for the growers ROP number, identifying where the crop is being grown.
This new system has the technology to allow clients to access data electronically via the Internet, and has the capability to link with Agribase (the AgriQuality New Zealand Farms database), and GIS mapping software.
www.seedlab.co.nz /SEEDLIN3.HTM   (2383 words)

  
 ★ New Zealand business management links. NZ commerce directory
There are many New Zealand Government commerce links such as the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade plus state owned enterprises.
Rotherhams Barristers and Solictor - Rotherhams is a boutique legal practice operating in the heart of beautiful Christchurch, the Garden City of New Zealand.
Migration Bureau - Immigration Consultants specialise in emigration and visa requirements to assist with your re-settlement in Australia, New Zealand and Canada.
www.mkiwi.com /links/New_Zealand/New+Zealand+business+links.html   (765 words)

  
 CorpGovtDec2004.doc
But what happens at the other extreme \endash when there are no executives common to both the board and the management team, as is required by state- owned enterprises in New Zealand?
It was generally held that main board members should not be on the board of a wholly owned subsidiary for which the CEO was accountable.
But the duality leadership structure \endash where the executive who leads the board, with the responsibility of monitoring performance, also leads the management team \endash frowned upon in cor\-porates, is the model for the entrepreneurial organisation, the driving force behind most industry success.
www.imcnz.org /NewsArticles/CorpGovtDec2004.doc   (1560 words)

  
 CCMAU - Transpower New Zealand Ltd (Transpower)
> HOME > Companies We Monitor > State-Owned Enterprises > Transpower New Zealand Ltd (Transpower) >
Transpower owns and operates the national grid for transmission of electricity from producers to distributors and some customers.
Transpower has several subsidiary and associate companies, including Risk Reinsurance Ltd, which provides in-house insurance.
www.ccmau.govt.nz /transpower.html   (79 words)

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