ALL-ELECTRIC "TOTE"

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 29, 4 February 1936, Page 14

ALL-ELECTRIC "TOTE"

NEW PLANT FOR TRENTHAM

The installation of a Julius all-elec-tric totalisator at Trentham has been under consideration of the Wellington Racing Club stewards for some time past, and at a committee meeting yesterday a decision was "finally made to acquire the plant. It is hoped that the new machine will be ready for operation at the club's Spring Meeting in October. The • new totalisator will be an allelectric plant, with automatic baro-meter-indicators. There will be two such indicators, one on the main totalisator building and the other on the outside building. The barometers will differ from the present detached indicator at Trentham, the dividends being read from the top down, and the gradations between the pound marks being of decreasing magnitude. At first this may be strange to patrons accustomed to the present barometer, but, as at Riccarton, the public will quickly become used to it. Under the technical principles of the new machine it is not possible to make even gradations, as has been done with' the manual barometer. The installation of the plant will require considerable structural alterations to the totalisator houses, and these will be proceeded with shortly in preparation for the arrival of the machine. It is understood that the totalisator will- take six months to manufacture from the time the order is placed, but the club hopes that the installation will be completed by (Ji.--toOn"the new totalisator there will, of course, be all the facilities that patrons have so long desired, including purchase of both win and place tickets at tne same window. The investments, being electrically recorded on the barometers, will reveal the exact state of the betting at every moment _ tne totalisator is open and doing business. The new totalisator will incorporate the most modern features of automatic machine betting, and the club is te.be congratulated on its enterprise in providing for its patrons a plant that may be classed as one of the greatest wonders of the present decade.