Adequate Compensation

Recognition must be given to the fact that the Pacific Islands are supplying, free, a ready-made labour force for New Zealand industry. In comparison with this contribution from the Islands, New Zealand's aid to the Pacific is paltry. It is not so much a question of aid, as a question of calculating the cost of the production and reproduction of New Zealand labour by the Islands and paying adequate compensation. Factors to include in such a calculation would be the cost of upbringing, education, support of a family and retirement, measured against the time the worker is ‘borrowed’ from the Islands to work in New Zealand.