• A free house will be given away this week in what organisers claim is the New Zealand’s biggest prize in a free-entry competition.

Stonewood Homes and Christchurch Casino have joined forces to give away a $585,000 four-bedroom house being built in Rolleston, near Christchurch.

The promotion has drawn comment from the Problem Gambling Foundation.

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The prize house will be leased back to Stonewood Homes for at least a year.