Gull officially opened its first service station in the South Island in the North Otago town of Maheno this morning.
Gull New Zealand general manager Dave Bodger said it had been a long journey to opening their "landmark" first site in the South Island.
“We decided we should open with a good price,” Mr Bodger said.
So we matched the price for the opening today to our last opening in Opotiki, so they are our lowest prices in the country at the moment, he said.
“$1.917 for regular 91 and $1.297 for diesel will be our prices today for our opening".
Yesterday, for regular 91, those prices were at least 18 cents per litre lower than those in Oamaru and 29 cents per litre lower than those in Palmerston, he said.
“We hope to be in a position to open Gull Gore later in October," Mr Bodger said.
With independent surveys noting South Island fuel prices of ten to twenty cents per litre above a North Island prices for several years this will be a welcome effect for southern motorists, he said.
