THE TOTALISATOR

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 138, 7 December 1929, Page 25

THE TOTALISATOR

A LITTLE EARLY HISTORY

(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.") DUNBDIN, This Day. -English people are talking about their tot year's experience of the totalisator Viscount D'Abernon proclaims it a h Uge success there. This declaration will not cause surprise iv New Zealan(L We had fifty years' experience of the totalisa--7' and no Parliament could be found strong enough to abolish it crah^V s °UpleiOf yeai? New Zealand tolciated its use by anybody. Then in 1881 Parliament debated the question as to whether it should bo legalised under cei° tarn conditions. A Bill to that effect was introduced by the Hall Government. Tkl second reading was carried on 15th July on the motion of the Hon. Thomas Dick Colonial Secretary and Minister of Jut rff' n ° . m<;ntioned that the Dunedin City Council had by resolution exposed the hope that tlie Bill would pass Only Iml T" 'n? sP*e on second reading, voices afhrtuatlcm was carried on the Sir William Fox, while approving of the BUI, because of its dealing with gambling generally, strongly attacked clauses which proposed to establish the totalisator. Incidentally he poked fun at the name of the machine .'-Totalisator" was a strange title and to hnu inexplicable. -Kdu-ard Wakefield in his speech retorted that so far as he knew the words "totalisutor and "teetotaller" were both derived from the same.root,-a playful home timist tnat caused merriment-, since Sir William was in his day a champion of the teiuporanee party.'