TOTALISATOR RETURNS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 8 June 1923, Page 5

TOTALISATOR RETURNS.

ENORMOUS SUM INVESTED

(BY TELEGRAPH —PKESS ASSOCIATION.) AUCKLAND, June 7. The usual fixtures of race meetings held in Auckland during the season concluded with the final day of the Auckland winter meeting, but with a special permit granted for a two-day meeting for the country clubs at Ellerslie the 1922-23 season has not yet closed. The totalisator returns, however, show that, excluding four extra days "under the country clubs' pool scheme, at which £159,800 was invested, speculation at the race meetings amounted to £1,360,176 10s, compared with £1,472,----628 last year, while speculation at trotting meetings totalled £590,293, against £586,818 last season. The total investments at all meetings amounted to £2,110,269. The principal figures are as follow, the 1921-22 figures being in parentheses: Auckland Racing Club, £888.717 10s (£954,440): Takapuna, £233,610 (£249,493); Avondale £203,----0-20 (£221,395;; Auckland Trotting Club, £395,273 (£391,865); Otahuhu, ■£195,020 (£194,953).