Police investigating the double fatal Work and Income shooting in Ashburton say they have found a mountainbike and personal items which may belong to the suspect.

Social Development Minister Paula Bennett and Work and Income staff were among about 300 mourners at the funeral of Susan Leigh Cleveland in Alexandra today.

The morning began like all others for three women in the Winz office.

Public servants will observe two minutes of silence at 9.51am on Monday to remember those who lost their lives a week earlier in the Ashburton Work and Income shootings.

Ashburton police are appealing to the public to help them locate a black mountain bike and any other items belonging to alleged Winz double murderer Russell John Tully.

Surrounded by friends at the club where they spent most Thursday nights, Peggy Noble's partner of 11 years stood in her honour.

Police investigating the Work and Income murders had possession of the alleged shooter's gun for two days before telling the public they had located it.

A security review of Work and Income offices is being carried out following the double shooting at an Ashburton office on Monday.

As the small town of Ashburton comes to grips with yesterday's horror shooting, locals are turning their attention to planning memorials to honour the slain.

Farmer Dan White knew a gunman was on the loose when he went to move a mob of sheep. He saw a man in a paddock 20m away.

The suspect at the centre of yesterday's triple shooting was a sick, homeless man who had returned to Ashburton to die.

Ashburton residents can sleep easy tonight after a suspected gunman who allegedly shot dead two Work and Income workers and injured another was take into police custody.

Follow here for live updates from the hunt for the gunman after two people were shot dead in the Work and Income office in Ashburton.

Armed police have apprehended the man sought over the fatal shooting of two people at a Work and Income office this morning.

A witness to today's shooting tragedy in Ashburton said he saw a staff member from Work and Income run after the shooter yelling "You bastard, you've blown her to bits".

Suspect in shooting had said he wanted Winston Peters to investigate town's treatment of him.

Five fire appliances are battling a large blaze at an animal feed store in an industrial park in west Ashburton this morning.

'She's a brave wee girl', say police of an eight-year-old who was grabbed from her driveway and put in a car before she managed to escape.

Promising up and coming jockey Ashley Frye has been rushed to hospital following a fall during a race at the Ashburton Racecourse this afternoon.

A hearing scheduled for the teenager who killed young Ashburton mother Sina Solomona has been postponed.

Firefighters were this morning still battling a large blaze which ripped through hundreds of hay bales and threatened a house near Ashburton overnight.

An Ashburton fugitive caught after 10 days on the run appeared in court today on family violence charges.

Canterbury firefighters didn't get much sleep last night with six rural fire around Ashburton, four of which may be linked and are being treated as suspicious.

Firefighters are battling a large blaze at the Canterbury meatworks in Ashburton.

A fire in Ashburton gutted a local industrial building early this morning.

A train is believed to have ignited a large blaze that destroyed a vast crop and threatened to spread into nearby areas of Chertsey in Ashburton yesterday, firefighters say.

Verbal trespass notices have been served on ringleaders of a brawl between more than 30 people outside McDonald's in Ashburton on Sunday morning.

Ministry for Primary Industries officials have approved an incursion programme in mid-Canterbury following a spillage of one of Europe's most invasive arable weeds - black grass - found in a consignment of imported fescue seed.