TEN SHILLINGS INVESTORS.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 293, 11 December 1929, Page 17

TEN SHILLINGS INVESTORS.

It is understood, although no official information has been given out, that at the Cup meeting the Auckland Trotting Club, while not issuing ten shillings tickets to lawn patrons, on the totalisator, are making provision to pay out on such tickets. This will do away with the inconvenience of having to go outside to lave winning ten shillings tickets cashed. There are only two or three courses in the whole of the Dominion where lawn patrons are not provided with a ten shillings tote, and, strangely enough, these particular courses are in Auckland. Just why these two or three clubs do not fall into-line is known only to the clubs themselves, but apparently they consider the reason a good one. The five most important clubs in Auckland are the Auckland Kacing Club, Takapuna Jockey Club, Avondale Jockey Clifh, Auckland Trotting Club and Otahuhu Trotting Club, and not one of them has a ten shillings tote on the inside, and so far only at Ellerslie and Avondale has it been possible to cash ten shillings tickets without having to go outside. The Otahuhu Trotting Club was very anxious to provide such facilities at the meeting last month, but could not do so, because the club races on the Auckland Trotting Club's course. However, the Otahuhu Club is out to cater for the public, and if a move is made to the course at Otahuhu next season there will be a ten shillings tote installed both inside and out. '-'■..' .\\ There is no guarantee that tote receipts would decrease if facilities were provided to invest ten shillings on the lawn enclosure; on the other hand, it is more than likely the receipts would increase in Auckland just as they have shown substantial increases in the South this season. It is certain that the "gate" would be considerably added to, because there we hundreds who do not patronise the inside nowadays in Auckland for the reason that there is no ten shillings tote there. However, the Auckland Trotting Club has taken the first of the two steps to cater for the ten shillings better on the lawn, and perhaps in the very near future We shall see the club taking the.second step and providing the much-desired tote.