Historic Departments
- New Zealand Railways Department (corporatised in 1981 as a state-owned enterprise, the New Zealand Railways Corporation, including the infrastructure, which is now trading as KiwiRail)
- Ministry of Works (formerly the Department of Public Works)
- New Zealand Post Office (corporatised in 1987 as New Zealand Post, PostBank and Telecom)
- Land Transport New Zealand
- State Hydro Department, became New Zealand Electricity Department, then NZE, then ECNZ
- Department of Social Welfare (restructured in 1999)
- Income Support Service became Work and Income New Zealand (WINZ)
- Children, Young Persons and their Families Agency became Child Youth and Family Service
- the remainder of core services became part of the Ministry of Social Policy.
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