THE TOTALISATOR.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1275, 2 November 1911, Page 5

THE TOTALISATOR.

NEW SOUTH WALES BILL. By Telegraph—Press Association—Oopyrlcht Sydney, November 1. The Totalisator Bill debato was resumed ill the Legislative Assembly. Mr. Wade, Leader of tho Opposition, said ho failed to see how the machines could lessen betting on racecourses. Such a result had not been obtained in New Zealand. It gave bettor odds and made gambling more attractive, and increased tho ovil.

Tho Bill was referred to a Select Committee.

THE REDUCTION OF GAMBLING. In moving tho second reading of the Totalisator Bill in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Mr. Levien, member for lamworth, said ministers of religion wero actuated by tho best of motives in opposing Hie gambling spirit'. Sporting men were in favour of tho totalisator, but the bookmakers were against it, because it would cut into their living. The House, however, had to consider how to reduco gambling. The lato Government, While actuated by tho very best motives, had given tho bookmakers a monopoly of the betting by allowing it only on the racecourse. Mr. Wade's Bill had reduced shop betting, but a man could still bet as much as ho liked in betting shops, lhe most pernicious phase of gambling was betting on tho nod/ 1 and when there was a big misting, such as the recent A.J.G. meeting, one could sco bookmakers round tho hotels ready to bet with those bleary-eyed young squatters who wero half tonickod and did not know what they were doing. These voung nien would only bet a pound if they v.-ent to the races, but when they mot tho bookmakers someone would whisper in their cars "It's a good thing, and they would plunge. They would woke up next morning and wonder what had happened. After giving statistics as to tho number of bookmakers licensed by the various racing clubs in and around Sydney and Newcastle he computed that' the, public of the State had to find .£200,000 every year for tho upkeep of tho bookmaker and his clerk before hey could get the odds to a shilling. In his Bill he proposed to deduct 10 per cent: from nil money passing through (he totalisator, and give 5 per cent of it to the Government and 5 per cent to (ho racing clubs. In New Zealand last year a sum of ,£1,9010(10 went through t)m totalisator. 110 boheved that in New South Wales as much as .£0.000,000 a year would go through (he totalisator. That woul yield .0300,000 a year for the Government.

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