A wanted man who went on the run while on parole has handed himself in to authorities.

Police had a warrant out for Aaron Howie's arrest after the 47-year-old breached his parole over the weekend.

In 1998, he was convicted of the murder of 23-year-old Hemi Hutley - a young Māori man whose body was found in the Buller River in November, 1997.

Police warned members of the public not to approach Howie as he was considered dangerous.

Howie is a former member of the Christchurch neo-Nazi gang known as the Fourth Reich.

The gang was a white supremacist group that formed in a Christchurch prison in the early 90s.