It allows existing venues to transfer their machines to a new venue, but they cannot be next to a school or licensed early childhood centre.Ĭlass four gambling – pokies in pubs, clubs and TABs (excluding casinos) – are classified under the Gambling Act as ‘high-risk, high-turnover’.Ĭouncil staff prepared a Social Impact Assessment of Gambling in the district as part of the review and presented it to a workshop last month. Waipā limits the number of gaming ‘pokie’ machines to 232 at 15 venues and in sites where the primary activity is not gambling. The review is carried out every three years. Waipā gamblers put $10.71 million into pokie machines in the 12 months ended March 31 this year.īut if history is anything to go by, only about 10 per cent of that money will return to Waipā in the form of community grants.Īnd there is evidence the money raised comes predominantly from the poor and goes to the rich, a report presented to Waipā District Council’s Strategic Planning and Policy committee this week says.Īfter intense debate, the committee agreed to go out to the community for its views on the council’s gambling policy which regulates the district’s class four gambling and TAB venues. Gambling on the pokies is big business in Waipa.
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