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Throughout today, RNZ will look back on 100 years of radio broadcasting in New Zealand.. And on First Up - where a decent chunk of the team have done their time in commerical radio, we thought we'd pay tribute to the pirates who took it upon themselves to launch private radio in this country. In 1966, the MV Tiri set sail for the outer Hauraki Gulf to broadcast for the youth of New Zealand's biggest city. Radio Hauraki was the brainchild of two different pairs of friends who discovered they shared a vision. One of those four founders of the station was Derek Lowe, then a young man in his mid-20s, with horn-rimmed glasses and a head-full of hair and big ideas. Nathan Rarere asked Derek how he got in to the radio business..