THE TOTALISATOR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20725, 19 November 1930, Page 9

THE TOTALISATOR.

NOT ARCHBISHOP'S IDEA.

SON MAKES A STATEMENT.

[ViIOM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] SYDNEY,. Nov. 13. Archbishop Julius, of New Zealand, had nothing to do with the invention of the totalisator, but lie had a lot to do with the invention of . other mechanical ideas. However, he never gathered riches from them for ,he never bothered to patent them. This much was: learned the other day from his' son, Sir George Julius, when ho was questioned 'in Sydney on the reforence made by Earl Jellicoe, foimeily Governor-General of New Zealand, at an Armistice Eve dinner 'in London. Earl Jellicoe said that the mechanical genius of Archbishop" Julius was responsible a generation later for the Julius totalisatoi. Sir George smilingly retorted that Ins father, although lie did nbt approve of the totalisalor, considered that it had removed much of the gambling evil in rvcw Zealand. His father did not inventi one wheel, but he was extremely interested in its inception, of course, purely fiom a mechanical point of view. _ •fg'ir George said that in his youth his father invented a weird contraption, bu it had its uses. In the morningit would light a small oil stove strike a dangerous sulphur match, turn the wick of a lamp, St it, boil a kettle of water winch when it" boiled -blow * whistle and woko . the young man. ■ - A