THE TOTALISATOR IN PARLIAMENT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 315, 14 November 1879, Page 2

THE TOTALISATOR IN PARLIAMENT.

| ["Australasiau."] ft is rather odd to find that it is the cxtieniely decorous Assembly of South Australia winch has first summoned up to legalise the use of the totalisat"i mi piblic lMcewuraes. After all nidi """ l« Me it, tl» , . SWW 14. 't.it season should be a bad one, or that he crops should suffer from drought, or i list, or smut, or take-all, or any other Ft, will not a largo number of very pious people see with unfailing certainty in the duster the evidence of the aixrerof an oftended Providence ? And in su'ch a case may not the Parliament of the colony bo piuuhed against, and even prayed for to that will make the live,' of "'embers unendurable? The Bill has encountered a good deal of objection of the kill J that was to be fully auticip te don the ground that it "legalises gambling" N J must say that we think there is I'inse° "tilp '? " Ie than a mere I' 1 '" 18 ; ]| »e chan So> aj wo take it, leave* everything as it was before, save that an opportunity is given to the publL, if tfiey choose, to bet by the aid of this coEJX vance instead of with a bookmaker of < '»»g so and of obtaining full value for he,i money lhe law does not undertake to put down betting on arawcoursp and is hardly likely to make the attemnfc' Fii o from betting in any way they Sv '» l"«|.«rl Tl,„ „„i„ ( i ';'! f dlJes " ,Jt prohibit, at any rate it t;S ,iitTi3v^,michiikmtiL cavii. he ] aw ag!Unst j . never contemplated this contrivance inasmuch as it was not in existence,-and yet now the provision is found to apply. Th & has no other effect than ta facilitate betting by putting it 0 n a fiir STJhITv, s T lyJf *»«*««*•« ' 1. 13 be , ttei ' tlut it should be fair than unfair, and it is a sensitive conscience 1.1 objects to a legislature removing a prohibition hat was never intended to 'ifpS utilj'ly) 18 romuFe( ' 0,1 grounds