The Feilding Star. THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1890. The Totalisator

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 123, 10 April 1890, Page 2

The Feilding Star. THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1890. The Totalisator

The enormous revenues collected throughout the year by the proprietors oi totalisators, at the too numerous race meetings held in the colony, has at last begun to attract" the attention of men^ and.; th6 point is being; raked- as to, wbether a right has not been given to what is pra«tjcally , a mpj^Qpaji. w |o ne |[{fiei«4h6! public. Of course it is admitted that until the 'people who are foolish enough to put their money — if it is their- rnoney^-tkcougii^ the; machinej complain of the heavy impost of ten per cent., no mere^oultsiders Have an}' right %o f a»l§b,ibu¥ : stxjl tneyl^niayi be permitted to make suggestions. One of these has been . under, our notice, to the effect that a portion of the ten per cent.; deducted by the machine from all monies passed through it, should be allotted to each local body which has the privilege of collecting rateb on the land on which the racecourse is situated," each local body to have the right conferred upon it to issue permits to use the machine on such course. There is a good deal of practical common sense in this proposal, because thereby ratepayers would' be aased of 'a ' portion; ' of their •burdens; the' roads used by persons going to th|e races; ! w'6uld^ 'be . kept "in^ good order j and' laait, , ' but not least, , nobody would, be' v , a,,Jb^t; ;t,he < ,poprer. It' might also have, some effect in mit r igating the; hate of the goody-goody, and exciting the cupidity <■ of those wicked' members of i Parliament who have vowed the extirpation of 'the obnoxious machine: ! ' :^ 1 >