New Zealand News - Page 9

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.

International News Brief: The Court of Appeal has endorsed New Zealand government limits on how much pubs should be paid to host poker machines.

New Zealand’s National's Education spokesman, Bill English, says schools are poised to lose millions of dollars when new gaming laws come into effect.

News Brief: Two North Canterbury women who left a six-year-old girl in a car while they gambled and drank in the Christchurch Casino have avoided a jail term.

International News Brief: Gambling was the downfall of a Chinese student who took part in a sophisticated bank-related swindle.

International News Brief: Sky City is upbeat about future growth despite facing uncertainty and a $10 million hit to the pocket as December's smoking ban looms.

International News Brief: New Zealand’s Department of Internal Affairs says all of the 22,000 gaming machines in pubs and clubs around the country will be electronically monitored within two-and-a-half years.

International News Brief: New Zealand’s Internal Affairs is investigating two text messaging competitions which it believes may be illegal following changes to gambling laws earlier this year.

International News Brief: A mother and a grandmother have been jointly charged with willful neglect after a distressed six-year-old girl was found in a car outside Christchurch Casino early today.

International News Brief: Sky City Entertainment has come out on top of a PricewaterhouseCoopers corporate value report of New Zealand's top 70 listed companies.

Service and Food Workers Union delegates from casinos around New Zealand gathered in Auckland for the first day of a two-day conference.

Green MP Sue Bradford is demanding that the New Zealand Government urgently raise the level of the problem gambling levy in the wake of two new studies.

International News Brief: Researchers into gambling say their findings suggest previous surveys greatly underestimated the number of people with problems.

A groundbreaking New Zealand study is challenging current views on problem gambling and suggests a more positive outlook for people suffering from this disorder.

International News Brief: New Zealand gambling bosses will be forced to help pay for treatment for problem gamblers and addicts under a new Government tax.

International News Brief: The Department of Internal Affairs is warning businesses running text competitions that cellphone gambling is banned.

International News Brief: Red tape is threatening New Zealand’s community funding from pokie machines, says one of the societies which distributes gaming machine profits to charities.

International News Brief: New Zealand police removed three children aged 6 and under from a van near the Sky City casino yesterday morning after their father left them alone in the vehicle.

International News Brief: SkyCity Entertainment Group Limited has settled the $10.5 million purchase of Tainui Group Holdings Limited's 15% shareholding in Riverside Casino Limited.