TOTALISATOR BETTING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 January 1941, Page 3

TOTALISATOR BETTING

HOLIDAY RETURNS. Totalisator returns for the Christmas! and Now Year racing and trotting j meetings throughout New Zealand are! the highest for the past 12 years. Fori the 20 meetings <l5 galloping and five trotting) held between December 26. 1940. and January 3. 1941. £1.259.345 10s. was invested by the public. In all there have been 34 days’ racing, public investments thus being at an average' rale of approximately £37,000 a day. ' At one meeting only—that of the' Wnipukurau Jockey Club—were ihej totalisator returns h ■ ihari i -r tht-i previous year. Al several mr-.-t.nr ;; the increases were mbstantial. On a percents;-? basis the Ashburtmt 'iTm-l tmg Chib recorded lhe greatest in-; crease, the total.sator being up by : Lld.iba for the one day <»! the meeting, i an increase «.i approximately f>2 nor' Cent, on the previous year. The ehi’w! to benefit m< ;t were; Westland R C . lune day I, 41 per com increase: Wynd - ! ham R.C. tone day). 30 per cent.; Mar-j ton J.C. itwo days). 25 per cent.; Manawatu R.C. «two days at Christ-1 mas) 20 per cent..- Auckland Trotting i Club -three days*. Greymouth Jc' 'two day-' 11, per cent,; Southland I R < ly.vo days*, j pi-j- cem p,.; creased toiali;-ator returns of approxi-i match' 10 per cent, on last year wore; recorded by the Aucitlan i R.C. <fourj day i. Taranaki J.C 'two day<:>. WmH.n TC lune day, a.ml Oamaru JC lorn* day). Tile peak in imah-;,!,,,- r-mirns m New Zealand w;e reached n 1920-21.: During shat Chr. tma' ami New Yem I)cri, d meetntg. through'.ut the Dominion hamlh ii a .ms uppi■oa.-hiiif £ 2.000.000