A woman found her employee masturbating on a Queenstown walking track, a court has heard.

The 24-year-old British man - who has name suppression - was in the Queenstown District Court on Monday for a sentence indication on eight charges of performing indecent acts on the Queenstown Hill Walking Track and the Matakauri Track earlier this year.

After the indication, he pleaded guilty to a representative charge of willfully performing an indecent act in a public place, namely the Queenstown Hill and Matakauri walking tracks between January 30 and April 2.

Judge Mark Callaghan said the man was observed by several different women on separate occasions "crouching down behind a rock", with his pants below his knees, or his hands under his hoodie, or in his pockets and in his trousers masturbating.

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One of the women was the man's employer who initially did not recognise him but who had since fired him.

Another woman came across him three times the same day.

"You continued even though you had been observed by her."

Some of the women reprimanded him but he continued. Other times he ran off, Judge Callaghan said.

"The first victim, as a result of those actions, was forced to stop running on those tracks.

"The second victim was very anxious of going into the area and stopped doing so."

Other victims became "very wary of going anywhere".

The man's lawyer, Joseph Mooney, indicated it was "low-end" offending as there was "no actual exposure of the penis" and a sentence of supervision or community work would be adequate.

Judge Callaghan remanded him on bail until July 10 for a pre-sentence report to be considered.