THE TOTALISATOR

Hokitika Guardian, 25 November 1930, Page 3

THE TOTALISATOR

■ NOT ARCHBISHOP JULIUS’S IDEA. (Australian Press Association.) SYDNEY, Nov. 13. • Archibishoj) Julhfe c hatl nothing t«* do with the in volition of the totalisator, but, lie. had .a. lot to do, with the invention of other mechanical ideas. However, hei never gathered riches from 'thenij for lie never bothered to patent them. This '.much yas learned the other day from his son, Sir George Julius, when he was questioned in Sydney on the reference made -by Lord Jellicoe, -forfnerly Governor-General of New Zealand, at an Armistice Eve dinner in London. Lord Jellicoe said that the genius of Archbishop •Tillius was responsible a generation later-for the Juliqs .totalisator.

..' Sir George kmilihgly retorted that his ■ father, although he did not approve of the totaJisator, realised that it had squashed much of the gambling e\r?l in New Zealand. His father did not' invent one wheel, but he was extremely interested in its inception, of course, ■purely from a mechanical point of view.

■Sir George said that in his' youth Ids ’father invented a weird contraption, ibut it had its uses. Tri the morning it would light a small oil stove, strike a dangerous sulphur match, tuVn the ’wick of a lamp, light ‘iit.'hoil u kettle of water, which when 'it boiled blew a whistle and woke the young man.