THE TOTALISATOR.
AUCKLAND AS A BETTING CENTRE,
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Sydney, February 19. Tho Totalisator Commission has returned.
Mr. Levien, the chairman, in an interview, stated that a strong preponderance of the evidence taken in ali places visited was in favour of the machine. Only two witnesses examined, one in New Zealand and the other in Victoria, advocated the bookmaker. Both wero bookmakers. Mr. Levien praised tho manner in which the New Zealand racecourses were run. He mentioned that the jockeys' room at Dnnedin wns used as a Sunday school preaching place. The weight of evidence was against allowing women to bet.
Mr. Wilson, another member of the Commission, declared that if he were a member of a New Zealand racing club he would ardently support the totalisator, provided ho was a public man without a conscience, because of the immense amount of money it brings the clubs. Betting in Auckland was out of all proportion to anything else, the Commission saw, including Melbourne on Cup Day. The Commission was present at the Auckland meeting, where with an attendance of 30,000 the totalisator investments were .£IB,OOO.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1368, 20 February 1912, Page 5
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186THE TOTALISATOR. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1368, 20 February 1912, Page 5
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