Police on trail of 14c a litre petrol buyers

Motueka police have begun gathering information in an effort to recover about $1600 after a petrol pricing mistake at the Challenge Riwaka service station last month.

An amnesty for payment by 39 eftpos cardholders, whose accounts were used to buy petrol at just 14.4 cents a litre, expired last week. The case was passed to the police on Tuesday.
"At the moment, they are obtaining the information they need. It will probably be later this week or early next week when they will be in a position to contact card holders," Jan Cramond from the service station said yesterday.

Two more card holders have approached Challenge Riwaka since the amnesty ended, bringing the total recovered to about $1220.

Some had made arrangements to pay off the outstanding amounts over time, Mrs Cramond said.

- nzpa