Unicant recants

NZSPA

Christchurch had to go without a pirate radio station Planned for Capping Week, but up until the last moment plans were well under way for the launching of "Radio Unicant" as a stunt.

What went amiss, according to one of the organisers, Norris Bilge, was simply the lack of a boat from which to broadcast. "We had a boat up till the last minute," said Mr. Bilge, "but the owner thought better of it. In the meantime our reserve craft became unavailable."

Intent on broadcasting for 18 hours a day for the first three days of Capping Week, the pirate radio was to have operated from three miles out in Pegasus Bay. It is now officially dead.