A NEW TOTALISATOR.

Feilding Star, Volume XXVII, Issue 38, 7 September 1905, Page 4

A NEW TOTALISATOR.

An electrically worked totalizator is now on view at ihe preiniees of the Colonial Carrying Company, Wei lington. One of its merita is that boxes for tho sale of tickets may be placed on any part of a racecourse thus (ioiug away with the crushing that takes pluce nuclei 1 the present conditions. The machine is put into order by pressing a bell button. Besides registering the sale of tickets the machine automatically locks up I till unsold tickets when the judge presses a button to indicate that the race has been started. The machina will be on exhibition iv Wellington fora few days. The totali^-ator ia owned by the Wallace- Lowther syndicate, of Queensland, and Messrs G. H. Wallace and G. Gabriel are now in Wellington as representatives of the syndicate. Tho totalisator was inspected to day by some of the stewards of tho Wellington li.icing Club. It was shown that four separate and distinct checks are kept by it on the number of tickets issued, and that facilities for quickly getting money on will be greatly enchanced. On Monday next tho > syndicate is to give an exhibition of the totalisator at Palnierston North, by request of the President and vicoPresident of tho Manuwatu Racing Club.