WIN-AND-PLACE "TOTE"

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 75, 30 March 1933, Page 8

WIN-AND-PLACE "TOTE"

ELLERSLIE CHANGE-OVER

Preparations for tho operation of the win-and-place' system of betting at the Auckland Eating Club's Autumn Meeting at Easter are being made at Ellerslic.

A small building that is to be used as ithe recording house for the investments on the win'machine is being erected near the scratching board at the fence that divides the lawn and .leger, ~: enclosures. There are two faces on the building, one showing to the.lawn andthe-Qtlier to the leger, and the win investments will be recorded manually on both. '

All investments,.' whether for^ win-or place, arc to be made at the main"'tptalisa-' tor building, where the'face, of tho nia-; chine will be operated to::'teeord' the amounts invested on. the place machine. The windows will be grb"iij3ed_for win,and place investments. The ututs^for-; : ..the lawn totalisator will "be 10s, £1, "and £sij with the usual commission arrangements', and for all investments in the'4eger enclosure they, -will be 10s. The. wfe-and-. place betting' will be in operation' in the; lawn and ieger only, and betting ■•.••'.for' patrons on the outside, -will be ontthe' place totalisator■ only.l. ■ ~?,;■ So as to avoid delay the win totalisator will close a couple of .minutes before'the; place totalisator on each race-in order that", the manual recording of win bettingl may be completed when the speculation. on\ the) place machine, which wilt be electricallyl recorded as under, the old systeinj. ceases. It is hoped that the machine will be converted at a later date to deal with all the win-and-place betting simultaneously under the electric system.