RE: [Paddlewise] What about the ACA

From: Allan and Joyce Singleton <alsjfs_at_voyager.co.nz>
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 13:12:35 +1200
> they are not a state
>  agency. They
>  are written up as agents of the state. This is what I would
>  refer to as a
>  pseudo gov't agency.
>
>      Please, feel free to add to my confusion.
>      Bruce McC

Here (and elsewhere?) they are known as quangos.
"quango (rhymes with tango), noun, a Quasi Autonomous Non-Governmental
Organisation, a semi-official body appointed by, and often financially
supported by, the state." (NZ Dictionary)

The government here reviewed them all in the 1980's, and a lot sank without
trace (caught not wearing their PFD's?).


Allan Singleton
Hamilton NZ


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