Street View in New Zealand Coming Soon

Another Google Street View car was spotted in New Zealand, according to Start-UP. The journalist reports that he had met with Julian Persuad of Google NZ, who revealed that Google is currently taking pictures of "every street in New Zealand" working on Street View for New Zealand. The reporter also saw a black car with a camera on top of it on the way to work. He followed it for about 3 miles and managed to take this photograph:

A bucket? Obviously it was raining, but a bucket?