GROWTH OF T.A.B. BUSINESS
EFFECT OF TRANSMISSION DIFFICULTIES (From Our Own Reporter) WELLINGTON. July 16. The business of the Totalisator Agency Board had again shown a steady increase, and there were now 33 branches and 205 agencies, said the president of the New Zealand Racing Conference (Mr H. R. Chalmers) in his annual address to the conference today. “The board’s turnover is now averaging more than £350,000 a week, and it is only the difficulties of transmission which necessitates the closing of betting an hour and a half, and in some cases two hours, before starting time, that prevents increase,” he continued. “The problem of transmission is ever before the board, and the general manager and the chief accountant of the board have very recently returned from a visit overseas, made with the particular object of investigating methods and schemes for easier and better communication between the board’s agencies and branches, and between those branches and head office, and so on to racecourses.” He felt sure that the knowledge and experience they had gained would prove of great benefit to the board and to the clubs, he said.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27404, 17 July 1954, Page 4
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