THE TOTALISATOR.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20091, 21 November 1930, Page 9

THE TOTALISATOR.

• - ' NOT ARCHBISHOP JULIUS'S IDEA. j-iOli OUX Off* COE.StSSOK'DI;-;--.; SYDNEY, November lei. Archbishop Julius had nothing to do with the invention of the totalisator, but he had a lot-to do with the invention of other mechanical ideas. However, he never gathered riches from them, for he never bothered to patent them. This much was learned tiie other day from his son, Sir Georgo Julius, when ho was questioned in Sydney on the reference made by Lord Jellicoe, formerly Governor-General of New Zealand, at an Armistice Eve dinner in London. Lord Jellieoe said that tlio mechanical genius or Archbishop Julius was responsible a generation later for the Julius totalisator.

Sir George smilingly retorted that his. father, although he did not approve of the totalisator, realised that it had squashed much of the gambling evil in New Zealand. His father did not invent one wheel, but ho was extremely interested in its inception, of course, purely from a mechanical point of view. Sir George said that in his youth his father invented a weird contraption, but it had its uses. In the morning it would light a small oil stove, strike a dangerous sulphur match, turn the wick of a lamp, light it, boil a kettle of water, which when it boiled blew a

whistle and woke the young man