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Concerns Over Pokies

``Local Government New Zealand says the Responsible Gambling Bill moving through Parliament won't let them influence the activities of a venue established before October 2001, when the bill had its first reading.

``Spokeswoman Sue Piper describes that limitation as a 'Clayton's provision.'

``She says many people have come to accept pokies, but they want more controls.

``...She says the Government promised to give communities the power to control pokies, but is not giving them the tools to do that..."

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