I'm never going to say something should be closed. As part of the Five Eyes though, I wonder what is really being done in Auckland. If it's not a strategic location for the protection of information, I would say that the consulate is less important than the one in Osaka.
The war is going to be in the central and north Pacific. The other thing about the Solomon Islands is that this is the site of the Battle of Guadalcanal, and the Chinese are currently rebuilding. They're involved in putting in infrastructure at Henderson Field, where a lot of Americans died. They have studied the World War II map, and they're replicating it.