TOTALISATOR COMMISSION.
TAKING EVIDENCE IN SYDNEY. JOCKEY CLUITS SECRETARY FAVOURS MACHINE. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright SYDNEY, 22nd April. The Totalizator Commission set up by the State Parliament, after visiting New Zealand and the Australian States, bae commenced taking evidence here. The sporting reporters of two city papers were examined, and both strongly condemned women being allowed to bet ; this should be made illegal. Under tho present system bookmakers must win, the odds were co long againet the public. One expressed the opinion that the totalisator would be a good thing for the public, but the other thought it would increase betting, because it would offer more advantage to people to bet. Mr. C. W. Cropper, secretary of the Australian Jockey Club, favoured tho totalisator from the club's point of view. It would mean an increase in revenue. He thought it would be an outside estimate to say that between £6,000,000 and £7,000,000 would paea through tho totalisator in New South Walos annually. All the witnesses concurred in the statement that racing in New South Wales was conducted ira a clean manner.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 96, 23 April 1912, Page 7
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182TOTALISATOR COMMISSION. Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 96, 23 April 1912, Page 7
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