USE OF TOTALISATOR

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21448, 23 March 1933, Page 9

USE OF TOTALISATOR

BRITISH SPCIRT MENACED VIEWPOINT IN ENGLAND [from our own correspondent] LONDON", Feb: 18 Lord Lonsdale and Sir Alfred Butt wer® guests of the Press Club at their an-r nual sports dinner, and both referred tothe totalizator. Lord Lonsdale said lie had never been in favour of the totalisator, because lie thought "the original! expense would be so great that the interest would be lost, and nothing would, be left." Sir Alfred Butt said that he had opposed the totalisator when it was discussed in the House of Commons, aud. everything he then said had come true,It would be a far-reaching change im national life to legalise it generally. He-, was not a Mil-joy, but it »PP? ar «J to him that if it was to be used foruncontrolled gambling on greyhound racing tracks, it could not logically or fairly be denied use in other of. gambling, and might even be used on dnt, tracks or at Brooklands. That would mean giving facilities for gambling in this country far greater than could be found in any other country. There were within a radius of 15 m of that club 63 horse-race meetings a. vear, at which the totalisator operated, while within the same radius the ™ ei ® 40C0 greyhound race meeting a >e. . ings° at l other throughout the country were added it would b* 'realised -hat a very Sfchtbe to the future prosperity of the C °"Do y not let the great national sport, be obscured by other sports lor unfettered gambling," said Sir Alfred.