Preparing 'Pirate' Ship
(N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, July 17. The 91ft coastal trader Hokianga will be brought from Gisborne to Auckland early next month to be fitted out as the transmission base for Radio Haurakl, the first New Zealand pirate radio station. The 169-ton Hokianga,
owned by A. G. Frankham, Ltd., will be chartered to Pacific Radio Advertising, Ltd., the company promoting the pirate radio. The coaster, built of kauri at an Auckland shipbuilding yard in 1929, spent 20 years in the Onehunga-Hokianga trade and later plied between
Auckland, Gisborne and northern ports.
For several years she has been used as a lighter by the Gisborne Lightering and Stevedoring Company, Ltd. Transmitting equipment, a 168 ft antenna and three diesel engines and alternators are being prepared in Auckland.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31114, 18 July 1966, Page 1
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128Preparing 'Pirate' Ship Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31114, 18 July 1966, Page 1
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