TOTALISATOR ERROR
Retter Was Overpaid
(N.Z. Press Association) WANGANUI, Feb. 11. Somewhere in New Zealand is a successful punter who probably does not yet realise that he was overpaid by £56 at Wanganui on Saturday. The clerk who made the error remembers paying out £223 2s 6d to an investor who presented £7O worth of tickets (£35 each way) on Home on the Range. The horse paid £3 3s 6d to win and £1 10s for a place in the Matarawa Hack Handicap.
The correct payout should have been £167 2s 6d, and the error arose from the place investment return of £56 being calculated twice in the total.
The payout was made in the members’ stand, and because the man in whose favour the error was made seemed to be paying more attention to the "barracking" of bis friends than to the cashing of his tickets, the totalisator operators are optimistic in the belief that he did not realise the error. A representative of Automatic Totalisators. Ltd., who confirmed yesterday that the mistake had been made, said he felt sure the investor concerned in this case would contact the Wanganui Jockey Club when he realised he had been overpaid.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29745, 12 February 1962, Page 5
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