THE TOTALISATOR.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 141, 16 June 1928, Page 11

THE TOTALISATOR.

BOX-OFFICE NOT A PART. INVESTMENTS ILLEGAL. CLUB SECRETAKY CONVICTED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. T. H. Goggin, acting secretary of the Metropolitan Trotting Club, charged with breaking the Gaming Act by unlawfully permitting an investment to be received on the totalisator otherwise than at the totalisator itself, was convicted, but as the case was a test he was ordered to pay costs only. In his reserved decision, Mr. Mosley, S.M., said: "It must, 1 think, be accepted that the word 'totalisator' means the buildings in which bets are made and the machinery by means of which they are recorded, totalled and exhibited, the dividends computed, and the place where they are paid. Accepting this detinition as correct, I am or opinion that a small room or box office not connected in any way with a totalisator, as delined above, is not part of the totalisator, and that any member, officer, agent or servant of any racing club receiving or permitting to be received any investment on the totalisator in such room or box office commits a breach of section 32 of the Gaming Act. "In my opinion there is no legal difference between a box office situated in the stewards' stand and one situated in the members' motor car paddock a quarter of a mile away." The costs amounted to £3 13/.