TOTALISATOR COMMISSION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 199, 20 February 1912, Page 5

TOTALISATOR COMMISSION.

THE MEMBERS INTERVIEWED.

By OaWe—Proas A**Mtatitn— Ctfjr^tX, Sydney, February 19. Members of the Totalisator Commission have returned.

Mr. Levin (chairman), in an interview, stated that there was a strong preponderance of evidence at all places visited in favor of the machine. Only two witnesses examined, one in New Zealand and the other in Victoria, advocated the bookmaker, and both were bookmakers.

Mr. Levin praised the manner in which New Zealand racecourses were run, and mentioned that the jockers' room at Dunedin was used as a Sunday school and preaching place. The weight of evidence was against allowing women to bet.

Mr. Wilson, another member of the commission, declared that if he was a member of a New Zealand racing club he would ardently support the totalisator, provided he was a public man with a conscience, because of the immense amount of money it brings to clubs. The betting at Auckland was out of all proportion .to anything else the commission saw, including the Melbourne Cup. On the day the. commission was present at the AiicH;nd lu ,-,,\-. ing the attendance, was thiriy thousand and the totalisaior ; avi s!;mvnL- amounted to 'JiSO!iO.