Video: Newshub Late's Giles Dexter goes trick-or-treating

Video: Newshub Late's Giles Dexter goes trick-or-treating

Hundreds of ghosts and ghouls were pounding the pavement on Monday night searching for some Halloween candy.

The holiday has taken off here, with more and more Kiwi kids trick-or-treating every year. Newshub went out and joined them.

It's Halloween's biggest tradition - dressing up and knocking on strangers' doors for lollies.

And for my first time trick-or-treating, I wanted the most popular costume.

"Steam punk is always really big and shown that it's popular," says owner at Costume Cave Kate Railton-Jacks. "Donald Trump has been another scary one."

Sadly they were all out of Trump wigs, so after a few experiments, I settled on a Pumpkin - as long as I was home before midnight.

Watch the video for the full Newshub Late report.