THE TOTALISATOR.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10958, 26 December 1911, Page 4

THE TOTALISATOR.

NEW SOUTH WALES COMMISSION

(Peh Pijess Association.) . Vuckla nd. December 23. Members of the Now South- AYales Totalisator Commission arrived in Auckland vestcrdav to start- their New Zealand "jaunt. ' Jlr K. H. Levien. the President, in an interview, said:—"The object of "the commission is to inquire fuijv into the working of the tofcalisator throughout New Zealand and Australia, and to collect all the evidence possible both for and against .as to whether it is a means of encouraging or suppressing gambling. We desire thatall persons who feel so inclined should come before the • Commission to givpiis .all the help they-possibly can. by means of their statements, because we are. notempowered to take evidence on oath outside of New South-Wales. We look' for all the.help we can from thosa.who are'interested - in this .great question which ia-'soon deeply affecting-the minds of all classes of the, community, both religious and sporting. -As a • commission we are absolutely free in pur own minds on the question at-present, and we hope to get the .best assistance. we can from all sides. .1 iinderstml, rs well as my brother commissioners," Mr Levient went. on to say, "that the bookmakers have been entirel.- done away with, within this country, and that side of the question./will be inquired Into, because some "people hold —a'id very strongly, too —that if the icia'isntov is established tlie bookmakers ought to be abolished. That appears to have been the attitude adopted here by : lie Racing Conference, which was presided oyer. I see. by Sir George Clifford, whom we look upon as one of the best authorities on racing questions. We ho;).that the Racing Conference will jive u. all the assistance it can."