A man has been arrested after a gun was fired during a fight in Waitarere Beach last night.
The incident started with a physical altercation between two men in a residential street in the coastal town, south of Palmerston North, shortly after 6pm yesterday, police said.
One of the men went into a nearby property and returned with a firearm, and a shot was then fired, police allege.
No-one was injured in the incident.
Levin and Otaki police officers, and the Palmerston North Armed Offenders Squad, were called to the scene.
The alleged gunman was arrested and taken into custody without incident, police said.
He was due to appear in the Levin District Court today on firearms related charges.