THE TOTALISATOR.
(Received October 10, .9.55 a.m.) SYDNEY, October 10. j Mr It. J. Mason, the well-known I New Zealand sportsman, and private trainer to Mr G. Dl Greenwood; of AmbGcley, in an interview, strongly. condemned the totalisator. He declared that tote betting had I become such a craze in New Zealand that many workers have not a penny to draw at the end of the week. This was one of the greatest curses of the ' tote business. Butchers and bakers, had to go without their money while many of their debtors "splashed" it on the tote. He had seen woman tear their clothes and go imad in the rush to get tickets. . i Racing was now cheap and nasty ' and most stud masters had been forced to sell out. Those remaining sent most; of their yearlings to Sydney, where better prices wero obtainable because there' was no toto in existence. I
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10446, 11 October 1911, Page 3
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152THE TOTALISATOR. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10446, 11 October 1911, Page 3
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