TOTALISATOR COMMISSION
(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.)
Sydney, May 13,
At the Totalisator Commission, Mr. Wools Rutledge, a Methodist Minister, stated that ho did not think that the totalisator improved the breed of horses. Even if it did, it would not breed a better class of men. It would make the State a participator in the vice of gambling, and there was also a danger of an increase in gambling, because it would give an air of respectability to the vice which it did not possess to-day. He knew of a Sundayschool where Tattersall’s sweeps were subscribed for.
John Whitworth and Thomas Cotter, two New Zealanders, favoured the bookmakers, the latter because, under the totalisator, the punter bet in the dark. The totalisator, he said, also bred betting shops at “tote” odds.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 14, 14 May 1912, Page 6
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