THE TOTALISATOR.

Evening Star, Issue 8773, 14 March 1892, Page 4

THE TOTALISATOR.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—l have listened to men of intelligence eo often for the last few yeais complaining bitterly of having lost their money upon the totalisator, through the unfairness of the way in which the machine is worked by the jockey clubs, that I think the time has arrived for doing away with it altogether, or for some check being put upon jockey clubs. Something is wrong, and wants righting; and it must be done. We cannot have the whole community of a country ruined for the sake of benefiting a few jockey clubs, the majority of whose members are inexperienced incapables. Let the Government hold au inquiry into the way thetotalisatorhas been worked by jockey clubs in the past, and they will find the general public have not, by any means, received fair play. At Forbnry Park how were investors treated in the Meteor case some years ago, and in other like cases since —at Palmerston, notably, in the case of the pony Meph, etc. ; at the Taieri, with Lady Troon; and lately at Carisbrook, where sixty-seven investors upon Jane, in a trot, lost their money, as the mare did not start? If the Government wish the people of this country to prosper they will do away with the totalisator, which only benefits a few, while thousands are being ruined by it. Let the different jockey clubs themselves find the money for racing purposes in future, and not ask those to find it whom they treat with so much contempt.—l am, etc , Old Sport. Dunedin, March 12,