Radio Hauraki

Radio Hauraki is a New Zealand alternative leaning rock station. It was the first private commercial radio station of the modern broadcasting era in New Zealand and operated illegally from 1966-1970 to break the monopoly held by the state-owned New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation. In its modern legal form, Radio Hauraki's head office and main studios are now located on the corner of Cook and Nelson Streets in Auckland City, as one of eight stations of NZME Radio.

Private commercial radio stations had operated from the earliest days of broadcasting, but the government began to close them down, the process accelerating after World War II. To break the state monopoly, Radio Hauraki was originally formed as a pirate station in the Hauraki Gulf, the only offshore radio station ever to broadcast in the southern hemisphere, in a famous and historic story that saw the loss of one life.

History

Early years

The concept of Radio Hauraki originated with a group of journalists who felt dissatisfied with New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation (NZBC) radio stations, and with the politics involved with broadcasting in New Zealand. Private stations were able to apply for licences to operate, but the New Zealand Broadcasting Service (NZBS) stonewalled all applications. A small group involving David Gapes, Derek Lowe, Chris Parkinson and Denis O'Callaghan decided, with legal assistance, to start a private venture operating in international waters, outside of the confines of the monopolistic government departments of the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation, which ran all land-based radio stations, and of the New Zealand Post Office, which managed the radio spectrum. Gapes, Lowe, Parkinson and O'Callaghan eventually broke the radio monopoly, thus allowing private radio to become widespread in New Zealand.

Hauraki

Hauraki is a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand. It is under the local governance of the Auckland Council.

The population was 5,631 in the 2006 Census, an increase of 261 from 2001.

Education

Hauraki Primary School is a coeducational contributing primary (years 1-6) school with a decile rating of 10 and a roll of 352. The school was founded in 1954.

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Coordinates: 36°47′46″S 174°46′40″E / 36.79611°S 174.77778°E / -36.79611; 174.77778

Hauraki (disambiguation)

Hauraki may refer to the following in New Zealand:

Hauraki (New Zealand electorate)

Hauraki is a former New Zealand parliamentary electorate, from 1928 to 1987 and 1993 to 1996. In the 1987 general election it was renamed Coromandel, the name that had been used from 1972 to 1981. In 1993 it reverted to Hauraki, but became Coromandel again for the first MMP election in 1996.

Population centres

In the 1927 electoral redistribution, the North Island gained a further electorate from the South Island due to faster population growth. Five electorates were abolished, two former electorates were re-established, and three electorates, including Hauraki, were created for the first time. These changes came into effect with the 1928 election. In its original form, the electorate extended up the coast to Auckland. Settlements that fell into the Hauraki electorate were Howick, Papatoetoe, Mangere, Manurewa, Brookby, Meremere, Miranda, and Waitakaruru. In the 1937 electoral redistribution, the Hauraki electorate moved significantly south, losing all the South Auckland suburbs to the new Otahuhu electorate, and gaining Morrinsville.