£1,780,000
Would your correspondent, J. Orr, have rushed into print if I had quoted the total investment as recorded by the totalisator on racing in New Zealand during the Christmas and New Year holidays, amounting to the staggering figure of £1,780,000? Yes, it is terrible, and his remarks about our war effort offered no excuse. There will be no peace in 1944, for the people have still to learn what self-sacrifice means. the free education that he mentrons was not in operation during his school years, for he makes the astonishing statement that the totalisator could start with £16,000 and turn over the amount of £124,000 by the close of the day. Mr. Orr, Haw-Haw! BRITISHER.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 4, 6 January 1944, Page 4
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