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Pokie spending up over 2015

Gaming machine expenditure in pubs and clubs in the year ended December 2015 was up 2 per cent on the previous year, 2014, from $811.4 m to $828 m, according to figures from the Department of Internal Affairs. This was despite there being fewer licence holders, gambling venues and gaming machines compared with 12 months earlier. Over the 12 months licence holders fell from 312 to 300, venues from 1287 to 1238, an almost 4 per cent decline, and gaming machines dropped almost 2 per cent from 16,717 to 16,393.

Between the third and fourth quarters of 2015 spending rose more than $900,000, from $213.5 million at the end of September to $214.4 million at 31 December 2015.

Non-casino GM spending by Society Type – October- December 2015

Society Type	Total GMP Quarter	% of Total
Non-Club	186,889,011.91	87.2%
Sports Clubs	4,456,919.49	2.1%
Chartered Clubs	16,381,395.39	7.6%
RSAs	6,621,779.05	3.1%
Total Club	27,460,093.93	12.8%
Total All	214,349,105.84	100.0%

The spending is captured through the electronic monitoring of non-casino gaming machines (EMS), which became fully operational in March 2007, enabling the Department to track and monitor operations, ensure the integrity of games and the accurate accounting of money. In the fourth quarter of 2015 licence holders fell from 309 to 300, venues declined from 1255 to 1238 and the number of gaming machines decreased from 16,440 to 16,393.

Further information, including numbers of venues, machines and expenditure by territorial authority and changes in the quarter, is available from the Department’s Gaming Statistics web page. The figures are based on territorial authority boundaries, including Auckland city.

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