Being an Australian, I have no surprise that in NZ you might have been given a "bum steer".
There have been absolutely NO announcements about any of the V series lenses being discontinued in the past year. I say this confidently because I am on both Hasselblad and Zeiss' e-newsletter lists and receive their printed publications regularly too.
I'm sure if you contact a real (I mean substantial) distributor or dedicated professional MF dealer in places like the US or UK you will find the NZ guy is wrong.
But I could be wrong
so I have called the Australian exclusive Hasselblad importer and they told me there has been no such announcement.
Whenever I am concerned about such announcements I always email the manufacturer and find I get responses in about 24 hours - so you can always get the truth "from the horse's mouth" and email Zeiss and Hasselblad if you like
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It is possible there is a big delay in availability as production numbers must be relatively small these days and these lenses may be batch produced which can cause big gaps in availability if current stocks sell quickly - and a dope in NZ might interpret such a message as production cessation.