TOTALISATOR FRACTIONS

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 32, 2 November 1920, Page 9

TOTALISATOR FRACTIONS

'position op the clubs.. The'following letter dealing withtotalisator fractions has ■ been addressed to. the Minister pf Internal Affairs (the Hon. G. J. Anderson) by Mr. C; P. Skerrntt; •' K.C., chairman of the Board of Control of the New Zealand Snorts Protection. League!— ' "Sir,— Notwithstanding the convincing reason's already given why the present method of handling totnlisn tor .-fractions should not be disturbed, the Inspector ; ; of Totalisators reports that not one' iound argument has been adduced wb.V-, the club's should *be allowed to . retain their fractions.' . • ■ "" , ] "In. reply- to the representations made bv the' league to'.your predecessor an as-, surahce was. received 4hat at -.the time it was not proposed to make any. alter-: •otion in. the oxifltihg arrangements j and we do not think it either fair, or that any good purpose can'be served by publishing such recommendations from your Departmental officer,- and we are of opinion that . this should bo stopped, lhe league considers that those who are entitled to the benefit of the undivided fractions are the people who contribute the fractions by means of their investments through the maohine. Practically thoy. do receive the benefit under tho present system by which the fractions are' collected by the clubs. The clubs merely act as trustees on behalf of tho. racing- public,-and the money "they receive,! less taxation and- the expenses of conducting*the sport, .ull goes back, to those.-who have: contributed it, l.n' tho' .form of-'comfortable (appointments .for, the public and stakes; for the owners.; It is absurd to say .-'that-, the-, clubs ehould not be allowed to-retain-tho-frac-tions.'. They-: do not do-so.; There -are -no proprietary clubs in New-.- Zealand. The money is spent, on behalf .oi those: who.have, provided it,, and surely:.they: are the people who are -entitled to benefit? • ,v. . , "The suggestion now advanced is tnat the fractions should be appropriated practically in the form of taxation, and used for a purpose to which the whole population- of the .Dominion should contribute, not ,a section thereof only. this, too, in face .Of the five special and die-, tract-forms of-taxation: imposed upon the- . racing public,' in additionto the ordinary forms in the way of mcome tax and l-ates.-. The enormous sum of almost halt a million was directly extracted.jafjti ..year--:-from -that..section, of.: vivo' patroni&o -ru'oing, : - m .addition to which this section has to bear its full share of all other -taxation. Tot it is suggested ' that .this, section mulcted in ■a. further sum or "As representing the sportjnß J> •>; most --strongly - protect against pubicitf being riJen to the extraordinary liftTO little - knowlodito. aill with vfhlth. ho .has no, concern." ... ._ • , . : .C.J.C. SCRATCHINGS; . . . ! ; By-T»louraDh-Prei« A.aociatlon. , Christchurch, November!. . • Jlichaela and HoueJi have boon ed for'tho- Stewards Handicap jit tho -C.J.C.- Meeting. ;■ ' V: DEATH; 0 F BEZONI AN.,.. ..' By, .lelegrapli—P.res" Association-".■ ... Christchurch, November !,. . • Sir Georgo Clifford's well-known Stonyhurßt stallion Bezonian is dead. ,