LESS BETTING.
+ THE AUCKLAND FIGURES
Auckland, January 3. A further indication that less money is being spent in racecourse betting is provided by the volume of betting during the Auckland summer racing and trotting carnivals just closed. The totalisator investments in the city during the holidays amounted to £489,350, a decrease of £113,331 compared with the corresponding seven days of 1927-28, and a decrease, compared with 1926-27, of £58,138. There Was a total decrease of £75,439, or 20 per cent., in the investments at Ellerslie this year, compared with last summer carnival. The decline in totalisator receipts during the trotting carnival was £37,982, or 19 per cent. Nearly two-thirds of the £489,350 put through the totalisators during this carnival was hand • led on four days at Ellerslie. Yesterday was the only day on which this year’s betting at Ellerslie showed an increase (£1518). The Government taxation on the gallops totalled £24,570. The amount ■cf taxation from the trotting investments is not available yet.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3891, 5 January 1929, Page 3
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163LESS BETTING. Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3891, 5 January 1929, Page 3
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