Unlike Oz which operates on a N-S split
QSK,
You haven't been doing your amendments, naughty boy, the "NOSE" rule changed in about 1992.
BUT only if you go with or take a local instructor from somewhere like Queenstown or Wanaka.
That is very good advice ---- indeed, before you go anywhere near the hills, get very thorough briefings, and heed them --- I alluded to this in my first post.
Tootle pip!!