I think the only way to reasonably avoid ocean freight is if you can bring all of your stuff on the plane with you -- possibly with an extra or overweight bag or two.
While air freight is an option, it's insanely expensive. Most airlines will no longer ship just your stuff if you aren't on the same plane with it, due to safety concerns / paranoia, so you would have to use a freight forwarding company.
Ocean freight is relatively cheap. It's done almost entirely by size, not weight. If you don't have enough to fill a whole container, you can just get a partial, as was mentioned in another post. In that case, try to pick a popular port (like Auckland), to have the best chance of it shipping sooner rather than later. Once in the country, smaller items can be trucked or re-shipped reasonably inexpensively.
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