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Kōrero: Gambling

Playing Keno

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Playing Keno

To increase sales the Lotteries Commission developed new games. In October 1994 it introduced the numbers game Keno. Here Wellington Lotto shop operator Lyn Burney explains Keno to Stella Burns. 

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1994/3327/7

by Melanie Burford

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

David Grant, Gambling – Lotto, pokies and casinos, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/39445/playing-keno (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā David Grant, i tāngia i te 3 December 2012.