TOTALISATOR AND BOOKMAKER.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12587, 18 October 1911, Page 5

TOTALISATOR AND BOOKMAKER.

(Press Assu.— By Telegraph.— Copyright.) (Hroeived October 18, 9.5- am) » - . „S YDNEY, October 18. . fin the .Assenibly. Mr J^vien moved ft. 1 s^ c i ) i ld l ..v r .es!dmg of the TotaJieator Bill^ Tie referred to instances:.! where vh,<)rses had. .. been, "dead" , through the • lnt^ieiice pf- -tjie ibopicmaking ; eLemerif. He had- -inter viewed leading, New >Zea-. land sportsmen. • and all favored tire totalisatoc. ;•. i; <-. ■ ' ' The Australian Jockey Club, received £9100 -.annually- from bookmakers. Altogether the public had to find £200.0$) odd per year for bookmakers. The Bill proposes that the Government should receive 5 per cent, of totaJisator 're ceiiptsf:' Mr Levien estimated that £6i000,000 would pass through the? machine annually. He Mas prepared to accept an amendment that women . be not allowed to bet.' . The Premier said that the Bill was outside party politics. Personally :he opposed jt because he considered theyhttd lib right to throw the temptation, to. gamble m the way of the people. Mr Levien: Then shut up the' racecourses. *■ . '-. Mr McGowen said he had been 'iiifcfKned^^Uv"tJv"ew Zealand of factoijies where women, and gids were employefl •being regularly visited by agents of the tote. ■■'-„ . " .

'-■' 'Mr ■ I*evien : The person who furnished the report is a liar. .„

The debate was adjourned. »^; , The Herald, supportinir the Totalisator Bill, -states that if the fraud and chicanery now regularly practised >on racecourses are swept away, gambling will be cleaned of most' of its evils.

. The Te,hf^raph says that it is not a matter~of legalising gambling, which, is already' legalised^ It adds : '"Opponents of the. machine, while condemning the totalizator, always neglect to point out the -merits of the bookmaker." ■