UNCONSIDERED TRIFLES
Since the war began those'operating racecourse totalisators in Australia found difficulty in obtaining sufficient small coinage. In New South Wales the law says > that the. backer .must be paid to the nearest 3d,' but since the shbrtage developed the practice has been to pay to the. nearest (3d. These fractions unpaid have amounted to £10,819, and the clubs have handed it oyer to t-ha Government. "
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Evening Star, Issue 25084, 27 January 1944, Page 5
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67UNCONSIDERED TRIFLES Evening Star, Issue 25084, 27 January 1944, Page 5
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