Police are still hunting for the man believed to be behind the South Auckland shooting last night

A section of Papatoetoe's Great South Road was on lockdown from 6.30pm, after armed Police swarmed the area due to reports of a man firing shots at Allenby Park Hotel.

It's believed the man left on foot before Police arrived.

Herald reporter Rachel Maher , who's on the scene this morning, says it's eerily calm.

She says locals are heading to work and high school kids are walking to school as if nothing happened.