Police are appealing for information about the armed robbery of Matua Dairy around 7:15pm on October 11.

Enquiries are still ongoing and we have not made any arrests, a police spokesperson says.

Any person with information can contact Tauranga Police on 07 577 4300 and ask to speak to Detective Constable Aaron Williams, or they can contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.

Dimpal Kumar was behind the counter of the Matua Dairy when an armed man came through the front door demanding cash.

'It was quarter past seven,” says Dimpal. 'He came with a gun. Just one guy.”

Dimpal wouldn't recognise him if he saw him again because his face was covered with a mask when he burst into the shop on Friday evening.

'I was very scared.”

The shop attendant realised later, when viewing external footage at the Levers Road shop, that the armed masked offender had been waiting for the dairy to empty of people before entering.

'I saw later in the camera that he was waiting outside for about ten minutes before he came in. He was keeping an eye on the shop.”

Dimpal says the man pointed a gun at him.

'It was a little pistol. A hand gun. He asked for money.”

He opened the till and gave him cash, whatever he had in the till.

'Then after that, he asked for smokes.”

Dimpal carefully stepped backwards towards the cabinet holding the cigarettes, but then quickly slipped out through the open door at the back of the shop.

'Then I ran away. He didn't come behind the counter. He just went away.”

Dimpal thought the offender was going to shoot him after he'd handed over cigarettes.

'That's why when I was going to get the cigarettes I was facing him and went out the back.”

The masked man then yelled a threat at Dimpal before running away through the front door of the shop.

'As he went he called out ‘I'll be back'.”

Shop footage.

Dimpal says the man was in the shop for barely two minutes.

'I saw that he was running towards Ranui Street. There was a white station wagon that followed him, so I think they were waiting to pick him up in the car.”

He called police straightaway, and then closed and locked the front door of the dairy until a police car arrived about five minutes later.

One of Dimpal's business partners, who lives nearby, also came over immediately to the shop after Dimpal phoned him.

Tauranga Police are appealing to the public for information following the armed robbery, and would like to speak to anyone who was nearby at the time, and saw anyone suspicious.

'He didn't touch anything in the shop,” says Dimpal. 'He was wearing gloves and he didn't touch the counter or anything.

'There was only about $50 cash in the till, that's all we had.”

Police would also like to speak anyone who may have seen or have knowledge of a white Honda Stream station wagon in the area at the same time.

Any person with information can contact Tauranga Police on 07 577 4300 and ask to speak to Detective Constable Aaron Williams, or they can contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.