THE TOTALISATOR.

Timaru Herald, Volume XC, Issue 13300, 31 May 1907, Page 5

THE TOTALISATOR.

IN FAVOUR- OF BETTING

Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, May 30. i Ai the annual meeting- of the -Canterbury Jocifey Club to-day, the chairman, Mr F. II 'Tyne, in moving the adoption of the report and balance sheet, said that the future- prosperity of the Club largely/ depended on -th-ei continuance pi > the totalisator, and he confiderttiy believed that those people who thought that no law could abolish betting, would be in the majority, and would not allow the totalisator to be done away with. He; wished to say nothing against respectable bookmakers* but surely the totalisator was the healthiest and best form of betting, without which' the Club could give nothing like the sarnie valuable stakes which ° they were now enabled to give. Many people in New Zealand who had not "been'to the Old Country, where the totalisator was not in existence, 'had', no idea of the vast extent to which betting attained amongst all classes of the communiy, and he knew that : in nearly every country village, sums of money from 6d upwards were collected every day and sent■to -Eoidon or some other large centre for investment on the day's races.