New Zealand News - Page 8

International News Brief: An illegal Auckland casino has became the first to fall victim to the Gambling Act.

International News Brief: New Zealand's first website designed to help gamblers assess their own level of risk was launched yesterday.

Estimates published by antigambling activist group, Gambling Watch, are unscientifically gathered and misleading the Chief Executive of the Charity Gaming Association, Francis Wevers, said today.

International News Brief: New Zealanders could be legally playing interactive gambling games from home — or even from work — within a year, with the blessing of New Zealand Lotteries.

International News Brief: A New Zealand family are celebrating their $12 million Lotto win.

International News Brief: SkyCity Queenstown Casino this week opens its new-look entrance, bar and lounge area, just in time for the influx of visitors to the region with the onset of the 2005 Winter Festival.

International News Brief: New Zealand’s Labour party will not match National's promised enormous tax break to the racing industry.

International News Brief: The New Zealand National Party will give racing more than $25 million a year if elected.

Members of the Charity Gaming Association are disappointed the Problem Gambling Foundation should make sweeping assertions about the charity gaming sector to support excessive demonization of gaming machines.

International News Brief: A New Zealand parliamentary committee on Monday rejected an attempt by Sky City to scuttle Government plans forcing it to put electronic messages on poker machines warning gamblers how much they have lost.

International News Brief: The Department of Internal Affairs has signed a $35 million six-year contract with a gambling technology company to supply an electronic monitoring system for pokie machines in an attempt to safeguard money intended for community groups.

International News Brief: The kidnapping of a Chinese woman was carried out to make quick money after the alleged suspects gambled and lost at the casino, says an explanation posted on the internet.

International News Brief: Sky City Entertainment today said it had acquired the remaining shareholding in Waikato casino Sky City Hamilton.

The latest statistics of pokie machine numbers show that, in the 18 months since the Gambling Act came into force, there has been a 3% drop in machine numbers across the Auckland Region now 6,741 machines.

International News Brief: A new regulation that prevents New Zealand bars from having the word 'casino' in their names has cost at least one local bar owner about $1000.

International News Brief: A rugby punter has lost tens of thousands of dollars during the IRB International Sevens Tournament in Wellington.

A Bay of Plenty resident went home with $10,000 from SKYCITY Hamilton casino as the first ever major sweepstake winner from Rotorua.

Skycity’s New Year’s Eve party will take on a carnival theme this year.

International News Brief: The Dunedin Casino is under investigation after a woman, who put $5 million across their tables, was jailed for stealing $500,000 to feed her gambling habit.

Skycity Queenstown Casino said today that it is prepared for the introduction of smoke free legislation on 10 December 2004 and that a smooth transition is expected as the days count down to the enactment of the new law.