I was clarifying the situation.

Although the quoted text does not mention continent in relation to "one stopover in each direction", pandaperth indeed mentions "continent/country" which may be confusing.

I had an issues booking xONEx's last year where an AA ATW desk agent was trying to deny the following routing:

AKL-xLAX-BOS-...-NRT-SYD-MEL-AKL

He was telling me I could not have stopovers at both SYD and MEL, I needed:

...-NRT-SYD-xMEL-AKL or

...-NRT-xSYD-MEL-AKL.

I had a hard time convincing him the difference between "Continent of Origin" (ie. SWP) and "Country of Origin" (i.e. NZ).