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Joann Brand of the Hokonui Rununga speaks at the Gore District Council’s Draft Gambling Policy and TAB Venues Policy hearing.
The upwards trajectory of spending on gambling in the Gore district means organised crime must be laundering money in the area because it can’t be attributed to anything legal, and a social impact review on the effects of gambling needs to be done by the Gore District Council to find out what is going on, Hokonui Rūnanga staffer Joann Brand says. ”It’s a big rise, and so you do an impact study to see where it’s coming from,’’ Brand said before a hearing into a review of the Gore District Council’s Draft Gambling Policy and TAB Venues Policy on Tuesday night.