BIG INCREASES

Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 251, 23 October 1945, Page 2

BIG INCREASES

TOTALISATOR TURNOVERS NEW RECORDS SET Exceeding last year's total by £221,604, record investments of £932,112 were put through the totalisator at racing and trotting meetings held by eight clubs during the Labour Day week-end. The increase over the 1943 figures was £231,800, or 33 per cent. An increase of just under 40 per cent was shown at the Auckland Trotting Club's spring meeting, and there was a rise of 33 per cent in the amount handled by the Waikato Hunt Club. The meetings at Auckland, Wellington and Greymouth extended over two days, the remainder being one-day fixtures.

Increases were shown at all of the eight meetings, that at Auckland, £78,244. being the largest. Wellington, which last year showed a decrease of £26,794, had an increase of £69.200. The largest percentage increases were at Oamaru, 41 per cent, and Waverley, 40 per cent. Gore, Oamaru and North Canterbury recorded decreases last year. Following is a comparison of the betting at each meeting held this year and last year:— This Year Last Year Increase £ £ £ Auckland 274.282*' a 78.244 Wellington . 362.222 293.022 69,200 Waikato Hunt . 70.010»a 52.572 17.438»i Greymouth . . 58.351 41.585 I .'a 16.765 1 2 Gore ... 43,839 40.316 8.023 Oamaru 40.671 1 ' 2 33,096 13,575 1 / 2 Nth. Canterbury 35.2324 27.495 7,737V 2 Waverley 36,503 I i 25.353 10.620*2 932.112' 2 710.508 221.604»a