WITH THE MONEY

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 101, 20 July 1927, Page 6

WITH THE MONEY

TALKATIVE TOTE CLERKS SECRECY MUST BE OBSERVED HEAVY PENALTY PROVIDED FOR During recent years a strong feeling has existed among betting owners that when they invest money on the totalisator certain employees in the machine rush to inform tlieir friends that such and such a horse has been backed from the right quarter. Many a time, it is stated, those engaged about the totalisators have divulged betting transactions to people who hang about the windows for the much-sought-after information. At one meeting it seemed, to be the duty of a certain employee to openly announce to' all concerned that the money was in on certain horses. Is that fair to the connections of the horse? OWNERS TURNED AWAY Certainly not, and it is the tactics in evidence among the majority of totalisator staffs that lias compelled big betting owners to place their investments other than on the machine. It is gratifying to note that the authorities have at last realised the seriousness of the methods in vogue with totalisator staffs, and have passed a rule that will make it expensive for totalisator employees to divulge bets made on the machine. READ THE RULE For the benefit of those who will do well to make themselves cognisant of the new law, it is as follows: “No person having any duties or employed in a totalisator house shall disclose in any manner whatever to anyone any information to the investments made by any person on anj horse or horses, and should any person commit a breach of this rule he shall be liable to a penalty to be inflicted y the stewards or the association not exceeding £ 50, or to be disqualified for such term as such stewards or the association may think fit. Provided always that this rule shall not prevent a stipendiary steward, or the stewards of a club, from obtaining after the race has been run, and for the i purpose of a judicial inquiry, any inas to the person or persons linking investments on any horse in sticih race, and the amount of such investment.”