HOW OFF-COURSE BETTING

Chronicle (Levin), 7 January 1948, Page 7

HOW OFF-COURSE BETTING

Racing Authorities' Scheme Approved .After giving eonsideration to four schemes put forward by individuals, the ' donimi.ssion reeommended the adoption , of the scheme propounded eonjointiy by? the Racing and Tfotting Conferenees. ; "Bfoadly speaking, it is suggested j that totalisator agencies should' be es- > tablished at all places whare the volume of business appears to warraiit it. The apthors of the scheme have 200 such: ■ x>laces in mind. It is proposed that these agencies should be uuder the control of the two Conferenees or of ari organisation set up by them. Two niethods of betting are proposed a't sueh premises. On race days eash would be received, muph as a bank receives it. • Tlius, it is said, there will be.no eneour- I agement to the publie to loiter on the.l preinises; this, in order to avoid the possibilitv of tlie ereation of a betting shop atmosphere. On other days,' as well as on race days, bets will be accepted by telephone, by telegraph or b'y post. Investments made at agencies will be collated and the results transmitted to sub-distriet agencies. The sub-distrint agencies will, in their tuni, collate and transmit the totals to a head office situated at Wellington. The head offi.ee is to carry out the hnal collation and transmit the results to the on-course totalisator concerned, so that the offc'course betting 011 eacli race can be recorded on the on-course totalisator as soon as the totalisator betting for that race begius. Toll Pacilities. "Initially, transmission to and from . all pooixits will be by telephone and, wliere possible, by sealed circuit liired