GREYHOUND RACING

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 7, 19 December 1932, Page 8

GREYHOUND RACING

TOTALISATOR ILLEGAL.

CLOSING OF “TOTE CLUBS.”

KING’S BENCH JUDGMENT

British Official Wireless Service. Rugby, Dec. 16.

Considerable interest is aroused by the judgment of the Lord Chief Justice in the King’s Court to-day, the effect of which is to render illeg.i die use of. the totalisator on greyhound racing tracks, in which approximately £3,000,000 have been invested in recent years and which are patr. n.sed by a huge public. The shares of greyhound racing companies present a value, of which it is estimated about £10,000,000 were marked down on the Stock Exchange this afternoon. The decision will probably also affect “tote clubs,’’ the number of which has been increasing rapidly in recent months and may reach 1000 in the whole of England. The judgment in this case is final, but newspapers forecast that the matter will be taken to the House of Lords on another ease now in the Chanccrv Court. The Commissioner of Police is understood to be considering the position arising from the judgment iu association with the Home Secretary It is considered probable that steps will be taken to close down the “tote clubs’’ immediately. Greyhound race meetings arc being held in several places to-night and according to the statement of the managers, the totalisator will be in use.