TOTALISATOR TICKETS.

Shannon News, 12 March 1926, Page 3

TOTALISATOR TICKETS.

DON'T DESTROY THEM TILL THE ' ■■'■'■' RAICBS ARE OVER. ' . ' That it is wise to follow the advice frequently printed in race (books to keep your tickets to the end of the day was strikingly illustrated on two occasions at the Taranaki Trots at New Plymouth on Saturday (says the Taranaki News). ;' After the' fourth race, the. Cup, the winning number was hoisted, that of the winner SA, being chalked up, followed iby the numbers 3,7, and % being second, third and 'fourth respectively. As it was raining at the time the chalk was soon obliterated on the weather side with the result that, to Uhe casual observer, it appeared that No. 3 was first and No. 7 second. A number of 5A tickets were thrown away leading to subsequent search and occasional discovery, while the pay-out. clerks also had a busy time directing No. 3 ticket holders from the first to the second dividend window and also explaining that No. 7 was the third horse. After the sixth race, too, when the second horse No. 2 was disqualified and. No. 14 placed second, there were to be seen numibars of people searching for tickets they had thrown away. One woman "Was fortunate enough to go straight to the spot were she had thrown her ticket and ait once regain it, but the efforts of a party to recover the fragments of a ticket they had torn up created a lot of amusecien't.