The Kiwi stats:
If you forget the private guys and take the valid Commercial and ATP's who should have a class 1 = 601 pilots who may be not all be employed.
The site states there are 562 helicopters on the register.
So statistcally in New Zealand and following nature, helicopters in New Zealand must be like ar$holes, one for each pilot!!!!!!! And vice versa is not entirely the case.........
And in a country of only 4 million odd they are treated as pretty ho hum. Remember landing in a pub car park on the West Coast of the South Island and it did not distract anyone from their beer!!! Maybe that's the problem.
Mind you that was before they got electricity.