Radio Plans To Use Borrowed Ship

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31655, 16 April 1968, Page 1

Radio Plans To Use Borrowed Ship

A ship had been lent to Radio Pegasus from which to broadcast, and would be ready to put to sea “in a short while,” said the chief technician for Radio Pegasus (Mr S. Lawson) last evening.

“The Post Office is sitting on us, and officials have told us that once they find we have a ship they will pounce on us and confiscate all our gear. Therefore instructions have been issued that we cannot make any statement at all about the ship,” said Mr Lawson. He said he could not divulge where the ship that had been lent was anchored, nor when it would put to sea. “I cannot even say what size the ship is, because the

size would give the Post Office a lead to trace us. We will be fitting the ship out with our gear just before we are ready to put to sea, which will be in a short while,” Mr Lawson said. Asked to comment on the dangers of anchoring a ship in Pegasus Bay, which has been described as highly dangerous by a Christchurch master mariner, Mr Lawson said the ship would not be anchored in the bay. “We would be cruising all the time, about five miles up and then we would drift back. This would be done somewhere off Kaikoura,” he said.