The Totalisator
As the opening of Parliament approaches, the abolition of the totalisator looms up once more, and speeches and leading articles are launched against the machine. It is all very well to condemn the totalisator, which, no doubt, has its faults ; but it would be wise, before abolishing its legal use, to calculate what the result of locking up this public safety valve would be. Before the totalisator was introduced horse-racing was made (he medium of gambling, and fortunes were lost on a single race by plungers, who thought they had a certainty and found they had either misjudged tho powers of their favourite, or that the pencillers who stood to lose heavily, should it win, had either bribed the trainer or jockey, or in some other way got at the horse and made sure of its defeat So far as the betting ring and machine are concerned, it is plain that the latter is by far the lesser evil of the two. The question now agitating the public mind is : Need either be allowed to exist ? That gambling will be indulged in goes without saying, and it simply resolves itself into a question as to whether we shall abolish the machine and gladden the hearts of the bookmakers, or prohibit the latter from plying their calling. —Wanganui Herald.
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Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 119, 28 March 1893, Page 3
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220The Totalisator Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 119, 28 March 1893, Page 3
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