Hi Rooikoopie
, that sounds rather like a Dutch South African name to me. :wink:
Anyway, let's get stuck into your questions......
We are planning on making the move to New Zealand from London and wondered if houses had built in cupboards or whether they were free standing?
A lot of houses appear to have built-in cupboards. What state they will be in is another matter, but if the house isn’t ancient or a doer-upper, you stand a good chance of some decent ones. I can't help but wonder if the cupboards are deliberately built-in due to the risk of free-standing wardrobes toppling over during an earthquake 
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Do we take our tent or not?
If you’re shipping a container anyway and the tent can be thoroughly cleaned to pass MAF inspection, I’d say take it. Plenty of opportunities to go camping in NZ and enjoy the great outdoors but, if you then decide you don’t want to go any more, you could always sell it. I’m sure someone would snatch it off you.
Do houses for sale/rent come with the stove as standard or do you have to supply your own?
In my limited experience, they usually come as standard but, again, I wouldn’t like to comment on their condition. We were lucky with the one in the house we bought as it was clean and in good working order, despite being fairly old. Many kitchens also come complete with dishwasher, too.
What white goods are expensive to buy in New Zealand?
They aren’t cheap unless you buy questionable quality goods, but you can bargain with shopkeepers to get a special deal if you buy several items at the same time. Also look out for frequent sales where you can pick up some bargains. If you’re prepared to be patient and do the leg work searching for special offers you’ll probably do OK out of it.
We have a leather lounge suite - is this going to be worth bringing or just too expensive to bother?
As before, if you’re using a container to ship your stuff and the suite is in good condition, bring it by all means. You might as well fill the container.
What did other people take that proved to be absolutely useless in the end?
Glenda started a thread a while ago about shipping useless items . Basically I think there is such a good secondhand market in NZ that, if you have space in your container, even if some items turn out to be ‘surplus to requirement’ when you get there, there will always be someone who will buy them off you.
I also have a one year old baby so what is baby equipment like in New Zeland?
I’ll pass on this one, being well past my child-rearing days. 
Hopefully some of the other younger members can assist with relevant info.
Sorry about all the questions, but as one thing comes to mind so does half a dozen others!
Don’t worry about asking whatever comes into your head. If folks didn’t ask questions, there would be little point in running the forum 
. Speaking of which, a big 
to MoveToNZ. Great to see you here 
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