Police are appealing for witnesses to the armed robbery of a dairy in Lower Hutt yesterday.
The robber entered the dairy in Petone about 2.30pm yesterday wearing a black bandana across his face and brandishing a pistol, police said.
He demanded cash from the lone female shop assistant, who took all of the money out of the till and into a back room, where she fetched a cricket bat.
The man then fled the scene.
The offender was wearing a light grey hoodie, black pants and was wearing a dark backpack with a red design on the front.
