NEW TOTE MACHINE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15075, 19 August 1912, Page 4

NEW TOTE MACHINE.

AUCKLAND RACING CLUB'S LATEST.

[FROM On: OWX CORnESrON'DENT.]

SYDNEY, August 14. What is claimed to bo the "last word" in totalisator ruction is the machine which has just been turned out here by the Totalling Mechanisms. Ltd., a Sydney concern, to the order of the Auckland Racing Club. It will be installed on the Kllerslie course in time for the spring meeting in November. A number of members of the New South Wales Parliament, Mr. Cropper, the secretary of the A.J.C., and other gentlemen interested in the totalisator, have inspected the machine during the past week. The mechanism, it was explained by the representatives of the company, comprised the indicating portion of the Premier totalisator," and the apparatus used for issuing tickets. The section on view was about 40ft in length and 30ft in height, and will be placed in the totaiisator house, which will bo over 200 ft in length. This machine is constructed to meet the requirements of investors in races in which as many as 30 horses start, nnd the staff of clerks which may be engaged number also up to 30. The main feature of the contrivance is that the whole of the transactions are instantly recorded, and that one lever locks the machine. The manufacturers claim that, the machine records instantly the number of tickets issued on each horse, and also the total of the whole of the investments. As soon as a ticket > sold at the counters the clerk pulls a lever, the purchaser gets a ticket, with the number punctured In a die press, and simultaneously the sale is registered in the totals.Tickets for any horse can be bought at any window. The whole of the recording process is automatic. The machine is capable of handling a maximum number of tickets, in that any ticket on any horse is procurable at any window. By this arrangement a maximum amount of convenience is ensured for the public. It is claimed that nil the clerks employed can issue tickets simultaneously, and the sale is instantly recorded. It is impossible for tickets to be issued without the registration being correct. It can be locked at any instant from the judge's or steward'' box, or any other point, entirely preventing both the further issue of tickets and movements of the counters: this ensuring the sale of tickets right up to the actual starting of each race. Provision is made for the issue of £5, £1, and 10s tickets.