A TOTAL TO BE CONSIDERED.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1050, 18 March 1882, Page 4

A TOTAL TO BE CONSIDERED.

| An extraordinarily large amount of mouev pa-sed through the three total- . isatorson the racecourse at the Autumn j inee'ing just concluded. No less than I £18,215 was invested during the time uavs, yielding a gross commis-mn ot j more than YlSOtl. There is, besides, j little doubt that many persona each I day were nimble to get near the j machines to put their money on. ami I t ie Jockey Club must in this manner ; hive lost a considerable amount. It is difficult to suggest off hand a means by which 1 his excessive crush i immedia’elv before an important race can be avoided, bat something might I certainly be done to place the matter ;on a more satisfactory looting. A i natural human weakness, of course, i induces intending speculators to hang I back until some definite idea can be 1 formed as to the current of public I opinion, but it is tolerably evident that this weakness should be coerced I or coaxed by the Jockey Club into I some better channel. It is to be bo >ed the matter will be given considered before the next meeting at l -orbury Bark.—Otago Times.