TOTE IN BRITAIN
NOT YET POPULAR (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, Dec. 10. Lord D. Abernon, presiding at the meeting of the Thoroughbred Breeders Association, presented at the proposals for putting the totalisator on a paying basis. He revealed that the totalisator turnover in 1931 was four millions compared with three millions in 1930, though the the total betting in 1928-29 was at hast forty-six millions off the course. The. money passing through the tot.alisator the said, was manifestly quite on inadequate fraction of the total. Mt was also calculated that twenty million people attended the Greyhound tracks, where the betting amounts to twelve million sterling yearly. Unfortunately, coursing was omitted from the Totalisator Act.
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 December 1931, Page 5
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116TOTE IN BRITAIN Hokitika Guardian, 11 December 1931, Page 5
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