QUIET TOTALISATOR

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 98, 27 April 1932, Page 6

QUIET TOTALISATOR

LANG'S LATEST EDICT

(From "Vedette.") SYD^EY, 19th kpul

The State Preuuei, Mi. J 1 Lang, thiew another ipannei into the lacmg wheels when lite on Tudav afternoon an intimation was lcceived from the Tieasuij that the totahsators -would not he permitted to opeiate at Paturdaj's meet iurs at Mooieheld and VictoilaTai k Huuicd confeiences wcie held to dctci mine the^ legaJitj ot the "position, and, it being discovered that the Piemier had the whiphand^ the totes were inactive It is' difficult to undeistand the i*ason foi tho | action, for thq subuibnn and pony total-i--atois handle ouh ,\ few hundicds ofl pounds each lace. Ihiib the ta\ gained is 'mall and the onh duett lesult was to deprive another 100 people oi so of then jobs. Another pawn m the political aigu ment was pim_ply added to the jlist. Bookmakers thus were left -n ith the ] monopoly and at the cud of the da> most I of them wished they had been barred too Well backed hcrse after hoise scoied with punters winning all along the line Some of the bookmakers weie betting on conces sion—money back for second place—but otherwise backers had to select winner ' stiaightout. |

Tax collected on Satuiday will ha\e to be paid to the Fedeial authorities by the bookmakers. There was some talk of hdldmg it until the Parliamentary quarrels abated, but it has been pointed out that thib would be an illegal pioceduie