There's no club or any flight school at Picton.
So the non-existant flying club in I think may have been NZOK (I didn't have to drive far to park up at the ferry port) had three different prices for hire, when I questioned why the hire rates for a UK citizen was higher than locals, the answer was reasonable enough as it was to not disadvantage the members who pay a subscription, so the rates were higher for UK and different rates for US citizens, but I imagined it all anyway. And yes as I spent a decent time touring all over NZ and it does pack up early compared to the UK, trying to get a beer after driving hundreds of miles was a problem at 19:00 hrs way down in the South island. but I guess I dreamed it all......