During the southern hemisphere summer N.Z. is facing the ecliptic on the sun’s side head-on. The earth’s axis of rotation is off perpendicular by 26°, I believe it is.
The’m earth’s tilt to the ecliptic is 23’5 degrees and. New Zealand stretches from 25 south to past 50 south with the bulk of the two islands below 40 south. The billionaires are all on the southern island well past 40 south. For most of the year other than a few months around the winter solstice New Zealand is as far as you could get from the ecliptic.
https://www.mapsofworld.com/lat_long/newzealand-lat-long.html