Story: South Pacific economic relations

More links and websites

• Pacific Islands Trade & Investment Commission New Zealand

  This commission encourages trade and investment between New Zealand and the Pacific Islands.

• Key Pacific issues – trade

  This page on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s website provides information on New Zealand’s trade with the Pacific Islands.

More suggestions and sources

• Binder, Pearl. Treasure islands: the trials of the Ocean Islanders. London: Blond and Briggs, 1977.

• Williams, Maslyn, and Barry McDonald. The phosphateers: a history of the British Phosphate Commissioners and the Christmas Island Phosphate Commission. Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 1985.