FIGURES SOAR
BETTING IX DOMINION ■ Totalisator investments at the in r„< n meetings held ciurins the wrek-en'l fell | just a few pounds sliort of half a million, i and compared with the Uettinc 12 months ■ ago showed a substantial in''rca-e. Thi- ; is in keeping with the s-a-.n-ing \olumc of betting in recent months and at everv , meeting held over the week-end an hi- ; crease was recorded. ; Twelve months ago there were 11 day-i of racing. Below are the figure.-, .sno.vinq ! the investments at the meetings held las: ' year and this year over the Labour Dav I period:— ' !
dub ' 1942 1941 Increase £ £ £ Auckland . 127,214 105,738 21 476 Wellington 211,732 195,035'- 16.696'. Waikato Hunt . 42,156 41.652', 503'Gore 21.426 20.071 * 1.355 " Waverley 21,180 16.943 4 237 North Canterbury . 24.653'.- 16.947' 2 7 706 Oamaru 34,405; 2 31,450'- 2 955 Greymouth 17.031', 2 16,865'l66'i Totals 499,798'i 444,703 55,095'i
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 254, 27 October 1942, Page 5
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