The Waitaki district "in the shortest possible time" will be Kronic-free, Waitaki Mayor Alex Familton has declared.
He and the Catholic parish priest in North Otago, Fr Wayne Healey, first visited four Kronic outlets in Oamaru on June 18 to encourage them to stop selling the synthetic cannabis product.
On Thursday and yesterday they repeated the visits to five shops.
Mr Familton said two shops said they had stopped selling Kronic and two said they were going to stop. They were still talking to the fifth.
"We will be giving them a few days to consider our request, then go back again," Mr Familton said about the shops still selling.
What action would be taken against shops which continued to sell Kronic had yet to be decided, but Mr Familton, after the first visits, warned he would "take all possible steps" to make them stop, including considering a "name and shame" campaign encouraging people to boycott them.
"We are now convinced the chemical has potentially very dangerous results and we want to make sure, in the shortest possible time, the district is clear of Kronic," Mr Familton said.
