SPORTING.
ENGLISH TOTE SYSTEM
FACILITIES NOTED BY X;Z. sportsman.
AUCKLAND, December 21
The president of the New Zealand Trotting Conference (Mr H. F. Nicoll) returned to Auckland by the Rangitatu. Mr Nicoll did not see a great deal of racing duvmg his visit to England and found that tiro trotting sport did not command the same respect and support lhat it cloe.q in lb? Dominion. He ,attended the October meeting at Newmarket ami was much 'impressed hr the splendid totalisator equipment notably the facility with which the ikmre s - could he read and the arrange mmt- for displaying investments separately on a hoard 'in front of the .stands. This operated simrdtaneouslv with the machine and 'enabled the 'betting to be observed without going to the tcta’Jga tor.
What surprised him about the Enulish totalisator was the adherence to the practice cf selling two-shilling t'ckets. These comprised the bulk of the investments and involved a much greater task for thp officials. It prolonged the work of paying out. too, and as the races were run at half-hour intervals investors had often not received their dividends when the next race started.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 December 1932, Page 6
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189SPORTING. Hokitika Guardian, 22 December 1932, Page 6
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