0-4-0 Baldwin Saddle Tank Class
'Kia Ora'
Kia Ora is an example of one of the smaller locomotives originally used on the timber lines in Western Australia. The locomotive is a standard Baldwin 0-4-0 saddle tank design. The locomotive was built in 1884 and placed in service with the Melbourne Harbour Trust as number 2. The locomotive was sold around 1885. It was eventually bought by C & E Millar and arrived in Albany in 1887 for use at the Torbay mills. The locomotive was transferred to Yarloop in 1895 and it was there that it received its first name, 'Beetle'. The locomotive was later renamed Kia Ora by Reynolds Driver the Yarloop manager who came from New Zealand. Kia Ora was transferred to Jarrahdale in 1905 before being sold by Millar's to the Public Works Department in 1909.
The locomotive was used by the Public Works Dept. initially at Carnarvon to work the jetty tramway. Kia Ora was transferred in 1949 to Roelands quarry and later to Bunbury in 1954 to work the Bunbury jetty. Kia Ora was donated to the museum for preservation in 1962.