THE TOTE COMMISSION.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10965, 4 January 1912, Page 4

THE TOTE COMMISSION.

(Per Press Association.) Auckland, January 4. Giving evidence before the- New South Wales Totalisator Commission Mr Glover, M.P.. said that in. his opinion the racing clubs deliberately brought into disrepute the bookniaking fraternity as a whole in order' to-fget-the betting profits into their own hands. He favored both the tote and'the- bookmakers. Pressed to say .which he would have if he had to make a ; choicc,.lie admitted that the racing public wanted tlio tote. He believed that if the question were submitted to a referend,um both would be abolished. Asked.did the' tote favor the horse-owners, Mr Glover replied no. Asked why then the. horseowners favored the tote, he said certain big men would rather take less'odds from the tote than bet with, a bookmaker. . :..; .

The Chairman stated that he .had received a cablegram from Sir Rupert Clarke, one of the leading racing .inea in Australia, stating that he intended advocating the introduction of the totfc.