MACHINE BETTING.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVI, Issue 14911, 2 December 1912, Page 3

MACHINE BETTING.

;.\VKNT!OX OF -NEW TOTALISATIOK. A new totalisator lias been invented in Queensland. It is claimed, for it ! that it is tlu* only absolutely perfect machine for betting yet thought out. One of t'fic inventors. Air Kalph H. Rcis. lias informed the Sydney '-Sim" thai he worked on the invention for 12 vears before he perfected it. The machine is capable of dealing with any number of horses, no matter how big a field may go out ; but its chief point of advantage lies in the fact that the public need not necessarily go to the one building for their tickets—the machine can be worked from ticket offices, or exchanges, in any part of the ground, and always wiili the same unerring accuracy. Another import- . ant feature is the registration of tickets sold in blocks of ten. This is d ,-ne on the individual horse, and also in the grand totals. The* inventing have (lisco'-ereil the principle, of registering in the multiples of units. In o'lier words the machine will do the work of ten ordinary totuli.intors, and yet at the same time it ivorks in the single unit when required, without any change in the gearing. .\u wheels or sets of wheels connect into each other and there is no danger of jjs !i>l)-; or complications. ft is claimed thai it is an honesty of purpose totnlisaiur. so much so that when n race start--, a steward or other official appobiied by the lacing club touches an electric button, and absolutely locks overv ticket and number, am! the machin-' remains locked until all is nrov. d clear. when the touch of aiiolh.-r button releases the me. Ininism, ami the machine is sei at zero in less than Iwo minutes. Where it, takes 80 persons to opera to an ordinary fota!isa ior running '_>-t to .'-ill horses, this machine can bo run by If) persons, and th.-v would I'e chiefly occupied in taking cash. l:lv lieis claims that lianinviek could be Cully equipped will! '.hi- loviiisator for .souiclhiee under P/MV'i-K exclusive of buildings, which he thinks should not be of a costly cha reel "r.