You might not be getting a type rating but you spend time on the Beech 1900 and several guys have, and are, in the process of selection with Air New Zealands' subsiduary Eagle.
I'm pretty sure the only way you get 1900 time is to work for Eagle. No one I've heard of gets time on the 1900 with Eagle unless they work there, I could be wrong.
Some cadets apparently have have interviews and a couple of cadets have been successful, though from reading a thread on the D & G section it would seem one of these guys hasn't made too many friends with his attitude.
I wouldn't imagine that too many cadets will be taken on as a proportion of the total intake since they will not have the requirements to hold an ATPL by the time it will be needed.