OVER MILLION IN WAGERS SINCE XMAS
Special To “Northern Advocate ”l AUCKLAND, This Day. For the first time since 1929-30, the [gregate of total? sator investments id racing and trot Ling meetings held iring the Christmas and New Year flidays in the Dominion has exceccl--1 £ •1,000.000.
The total amount handled at 22 lixres was £1.012.439 10/-, compared ith £869,955 for the corresponding eetings last season, an increase of 142,484 IQ/-.
The improvement in totalisator ferns over the past few years has been msidered a further criterion of genial recovery.
In the 1930-31 holiday season the injstments amounted to £891,560. in 132-33 to £568,390, in 1933-34 to 619,659, in 1934-35 to £606.953. and . 1935-36 to £782,337.
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Northern Advocate, 4 January 1938, Page 3
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