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New Zealand breaks the billion mark

January 25, 2006 on 7:02 pm | In Slot machine overviews |

New Zealand punters have the ignominious distinction of losing over one billion New Zealand dollars on pokies in one year for the first time:

In particular, pokie machines in pubs and bars outside casinos are still raking in the lion’s share of gambling losses, with $1.027 billion of punters’ money down the drain (in the year to June 30, 2004);

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Other things you could do with $1.027 billion dollars:
-> Buy 41,080 average size cars.
-> Buy 684,000 average computers (a new computer for 1 in 7 New Zealanders).
-> Buy 79 million movie tickets.
-> Buy 4,108 nice homes.
-> Buy 342,333 plasma televisions.

New Zealand is still behind Australia though, Aussies lose a fair bit more per capita.