THE TOTALISATOR.
There is solid ground, according to the Melbourne Age, for nredieting that in a very short while tin? sport j of horse-racing throughout Australia ] will be liberated by the legalisation of the totalisator from many of the evils and abuses that have ruinously affected its prestige in the past. "It is impossible" the Age says, "that the agitation for the machine can be much longer resisted n the outstanding States. The accumulation of evidence in its favour is altogether too overwhelming. The opposition to it is too transparently 'based on the mere prejudice of one .section and on the selfish personal interests of the other. There is no argument against the machine. If there were, it should be an easy task to produce it. For the totalator is not an innovation involving speculative doubt as to how it will work. It has been in existence in New Zealand for years. It is ahn in existence in three States of the Commonwealth—South Australia. est Australia and Tasmania. The opposition to the machine, organised and worked by an amazing alliance of churches and bookmakers, is absoluteI lv without substance."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10585, 16 March 1912, Page 4
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189THE TOTALISATOR. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10585, 16 March 1912, Page 4
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