No but I believe it is normal to stop there when ferrying small aircraft to Australia, unless you are just planning to fly the 1000 odd Nm sea track direct from NZ to Oz for Exercises or maybe on to somewhere else like Timor?
Even Christchurch to Chatham Islands is 470ish Nm so you would probably struggle to 'Air Deploy' to all parts of NZ if it was blowing more than a light Easterley.