BETS IN ADVANCE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22320, 3 May 1947, Page 6

BETS IN ADVANCE

FACILITIES SOUGHT PROVISION ON “TOTE” TROTTING CLUB'S MOVE (P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH. May 2. Efforts made by the New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club to gain permission to 'provide facilities for totalisator investments on races to be run some time later in the day were briefly discussed at the sitting of the Royal Commission on Gaming this morning. “My club made an application to Wellington to be allowed to do as I am suggesting, but the request was rejected ’’ said Allan Leicester Matson, giving evidence for the Metropolitan Trotting Club. Mr J. Heenan. a member of the com mission: There has been no legal reji ction of the club's suggestion. Tnere has been an informal exchange of letters on the subject between an offi cial of th club and the departments inspector of totalisators Matson said there were patrons who grounds against the plan were "thin, but Mr Heenan replied that it had been for the club to carry the matter further. Matson said there were patron who preferred to sit in ’he stand rather than go down into the crowd to place bets With suitable provision this class could piacp their bets perhaps a?, uour before the start of a race. Also affected were patrons who had to leave the course early. Under tin: law thev could not ieave money with friends ’to invest for them on subsequent racce.