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FURTHER EVIDENCE TAKEN
OPINION OF SPORTING WRITERS.
(Received Last Night, 9.15 o'clock.)
SYDNEY, April 22. The New South Wales Totalisator Commission, which recently visited New Zealand, has commenced taking evidence. The reporters of two city papers, wihen examined, strongly condemned women being allowed to bet, and stated .that this should be made illegal. Under the present system the bookmakers must win, as the odds wore so long against the public. One sftated that m bis opinion the to.taliea.tor would, be a good thing for •the. public/The otherthought that it would mean an increase in betting, because it offered more advantages to the people to ibet. Mr Oroispe, secretary of the Jockey Club, favoured t'he totalisator from a Club's point of view as it would mean an increase in tho revenue. He thought it an outside estimate to say tfhat' between* six and seven millions would pass through .the totalieafcor annually in New South Wales. Witnesses were all of the opinion that eport in New South Wales was clean. •■:>
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10615, 23 April 1912, Page 5
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178TOTE COMMISSION Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10615, 23 April 1912, Page 5
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