SATURDAY'S "TOTE"
Xearlv £400,000 was invested on the totalisator at eight racing and trotting meetings in New Zealand 011 8aturday, the aggregate being £500,990. wlien there is added to tliis the £28,(516 handled at Whangarei on Friday, the suin is £419,(30(5. But for wet weather at several of the meetings the aggregate would have been considerably greater. The opening day of the New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club's meeting at Addington saw £118,05(5 10s liandled un the totalisator, and at Hastings, where the Hawko's Bav Jockey Club meeting opcned, £58,254 10s was- the total. At Te Aroha the Poverty Bav meeting registered a turnover oi £(52,550. The Wanganui Jockey Club's ligures were £40.524 10s, tliose of Whangarei (011 8aturdav) £52,544, and at Ihe Gore meeting £52,29(5 10s. The Houtli Canterbury Jockey Club's turnover was £27,128 10s, and the Manawata Trotting Club's iigures were £19,895 10s.
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Chronicle (Levin), 9 April 1946, Page 6
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144SATURDAY'S "TOTE" Chronicle (Levin), 9 April 1946, Page 6
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