Garden City are a good outfit.Ask them if they will hire you as an instructor
if you train there as I think its the quickest way to kick start your hours in NZ.
That will give you hours and some more ratings and then with 1000 hours you are employable for a tourism operator where you work on your tubine time.
You may be able to get a rescue job with 2500 hours in NZ.
The requirements are slowly going down.
The pay in NZ is retarded though mate. You may want to do a stint in Aussie or Canada for a bit.
Fixed wing is OK too, alot more movement than the heli industry.