TOTAUSATOR COMMISSION.
EVIDENCE AT SYDNEY. Uy Telegraph.—Press Association.—OopyrHjnt Sydney, Wednesday. Tho New South Wales Totalisator Commission examined Mr Knox (chairman of the Australian Jockey Club) to-day. Mr Knox said that ; from the club's point of view, the I totalisator would have both advantages ■ and disadvantages. It would cost .iMo.tuiii to Hiatal the system at Randwiek. ! ;. on the other hand, it would : enable the club to increase its stakes, and that would prove a check to cor- ■ upt nrsctires. Mr Knox was opposed to the totalisator if it meant Governmental or i political eontrol of racing. No doubt the majority of racegoers favoured ! ile machine, as it would result in Bupj pressing the big- punters. It would '■ probably cause an improvement in the breeding of thoroughbreds. About | .'."; mi, (H'<) was the total of the yearly 'helling at Kandwick, apart from exI penses. The club now took £120,000 annually. If it got* seven and a-half i per cent, from the totalisator takings j it would get about £40.000 above ex- ! penses. %
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 460, 27 April 1912, Page 5
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169TOTAUSATOR COMMISSION. King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 460, 27 April 1912, Page 5
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