Hauraki Confidence
(New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, August 9. The Radio Hauraki organisers have no plans to use the coastal trader Hokianga as a transmission base.
The 169-ton Hokianga, owned by A. G. Frankham, Ltd., was to have been chartered to Pacific Advertising, Ltd., the company promoting Radio Hauraki.
iiie uumpaiiy a sununur, Mr L. R. Maclaren, said today the company was now in the process of buying another vessel more suitable for its purposes. He declined to give more details. The 91ft Hokianga was to have been brought from Gisborne to Auckland early this month to be fitted out as the transmission base for Radio Hauraki, the first. New Zealand pirate radio. The managing-director of the company, Mr D. J. Gapes, said Radio Hauraki still planned to be on the air between Great Barrier and Cape Colville on October 1. Mr Maclaren said that he, Mr Gapes and another company director, Mr D- S. R. Lowe, last week called on the Minister of Broadcasting (Mr Scott) in Wellington.
They asked the Minister to explore the possibility of setting up a commission to investigate the need for a private broadcasting organisation.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31134, 10 August 1966, Page 16
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191Hauraki Confidence Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31134, 10 August 1966, Page 16
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