Kia ora speaker themselves. New Zealand's national airline, Air New Zealand, uses "Kia Ora" as the name for its inflight magazine. Water Safety New Zealand, a water safety advocacy organisation, has a specific Māori water safety programme, "Kia Maanu Kia Ora", which makes use of the literal meaning of kia ora, as their message translates as "stay afloat; stay alive". In 1984, at a time when the use of Māori phrases was uncommon in New Zealand, an Auckland telephone operator, Naida Glavish, was instructed to stop using "kia ora" when greeting callers after the post office had received a complaint. She refused
Kia-Ora stud which have won seven Melbourne Cups. Among the many horses that have been born and reared here are: Amounis, Evening Peal, Shannon, Delta, Hydrogen and Windbag. The stud sold the A$2 million Redoute's Choice-Procrastinate yearling at the Inglis Easter sale in 2007. Some of the stallions that stood there were the Australian champions: Baguette, Gunsynd, Midstream and Delville Wood. Kia-Ora had a series of owners, including Percy Miller and his family (until c.1959), George Ryder and John Clift before being sold again in 2000. Kia-Ora stud The Kia-Ora Stud is a Thoroughbred horse stud situated near Scone in the Hunter