The Totalisator.

Manawatu Herald, 25 June 1903, Page 2

The Totalisator.

A Bill that will receive * t M * k deal of consideration this session is that providing for the abolition of the totalizator. For several jeare past it has been brought prominently before the House bj one private member or another* and this year it will be even more prominent than in the past. Petitions in favor of the abolition of the machine have been largely signed in various parts of the Colony for presentation to Parliament, and as a oounterblast petitions praying for its retention have also been circulated amongst the many frequenters of racecourses at several of the meetings held since last season. Some of the Canterbury members, too, hate been addressing meetings and inveighing against the machine, and the contest in the House promises to be pretty severe. In the past the Government has carefully refrained from committing itself to any attitude in regard to the Bill, in which, however, it is really considerably interested, that the. revenue from the_ totalisator amounts to something like £19,000 a year. It will be interesting to see if the pressure of public opinion wilt induce the Government to make pronoonoemsnt an tbs matter when the Bill comes up for discussion this session.—»Pest.