Do a search on this forum for New Zealand/IAANZ/etc. and a few results should be thrown up. Do a search on the Godzone and Dunnunda forums aswell. Lots more info there, and you'll get proper opinions from people who fly in NZ, and there are mixed opinions on many of the bigger FTOs there. There definitely were Irish and Brits who trained with them. Some of them returned to Europe and converted their licences while some loved NZ and stayed there.