"TOTE" COMMISSION.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVI, Issue 116, 14 May 1912, Page 5

"TOTE" COMMISSION.

AM). SWEEPS

>[.?RESS ASSOCIATION.] ;^<?4v:od May 13, B^T> -p^R-O , SYDNEY, 18.

Hts&v.c $he Totalisator Commission Mr . Wodb llutledge',. a Me^h.Qdist prc^fcher, \»«s" examined.' "fie said that he <Uti not think the AroiiM improve the breed of horses. Eveu if it iSid it would not *breod a hotter class.'.of-men. It would make the State a-participator in t%e ivico of gambling, and also engender the increase «}f gtvirililmg, because it *\reraM give it an air erf respectability, Avldc'h it did not possess to-day. He knew of a Sunday School whero "Tatts/' sweeps wore subscribed for. .

John Whitworth and Thoma^ Cotter, New Zealanders, favored '..the bookmakers, tlie "latter because under A'ne "tote"' the punier would bet in t.he dark; and beciivise it also bred ;stetting in shops at '"tote." odds.

GABLE NEWS.

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