MORE MONEY TO SPEND

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21977, 29 December 1936, Page 6

MORE MONEY TO SPEND

Wagering On The Totalisator INCREASES AT MOST MEETINGS The bigger totalisator investment* which have been marked during the list year continue, and although two of five meetings held yesterday recorded decreases, the other three compensated generously, the aggregate increase over the five meetings being £20,752. The only increase in the race meetings was at Manawatu, where the total rose by £l2 237 Small decreases were recorded at both the Dunedin and Taranaki meetings on their second days Dunedin showed a decrease over the two days of the meeting, the amount being £ 1324, but on the two days of the Taranaki meeting there was an increase of £2249. The Manawatu meeting which has shown big increases on the first two daya has yet one more day. The trotting meeting at Wairarapa showed another small increase in investments on the day's racing, and the Auckland meeting recorded an increase of nearly £14,000 on the first day. The comparative figures for yesterday's racing are:—

Hugo increases are shown over the corresponding figures for 1931, at the depth of the depression. Comparisons for all the meetings are not possible because some of the meetings have been reduced from two days to one, and others have been extended. The Auckland figures are for the first days of the respective meetings and show an increase of £31,160 for the first day. Another big increase is shown for the first two days of the three-day Manawatu meeting, the actual increase being £ 26,500. The increase for the two days of the Dunedin meeting was £9658. It is not possible to give fair comparisons for other meetings because of changed circumstsncGS At the trotting meetings the increases were not so marked, the biggest being at Ashburton, where the totalisator investments for the or.eday meeting increased by £14.541. For the first day of the Auckland meeting the increase was £12,312. At the Gore one-day meeting the increase was £4891. Because of changed circumstances comparisons over the five years for the Wairarapa and Westport meetings would not give fair indications of the trend of investments.

Racing 1935. £ 1934. £ Dunedin Manawatu Taranaki — 16.252 „ 15,930 15,233 13,2101 28,217 12,781 Totals .. 47,415 54,208 Trotting 1935. £ 193& £ Wairarapa Auckland ~ 2,812 .. 34,884 3,130 48,525 Totals .. 37,696 51,655 Grand totals 85,111 105,863

Racing 1931. 1936. £ £ Auckland .. 71,638 102,798 Manawatu .. 39,921 66,421 Dunedin .. 22.991 32.649 Taranaki .. 23,272 33,242 Totals .. 157,822 Trotting 235,110 1931. 1936. £ £ Ashburton .. 17.198 31,739 Gore .. 11.344 16.235 Auckland .. 36,213 48,525 —— - Totals .. 64,755 30,4ya Grand totals 222,577 331,609