LATE SPORTING.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 642, 21 December 1932, Page 9

LATE SPORTING.

ENGLISH TOTE SYSTEM. Facilities Noted by N.Z. Sportsman. (Special to the " Star.") AUCKLAND. December 21. The president of the New Zealand Trotting Conference (Mr H. F. Nicoll) returned to Auckland by the Rangitata. Mr Nicoll did not see a great deal of racing during his visit to England and found that the trotting sport did not command the same respect and support that it does in the Dominion. He attended the October meeting at Newmarket and was much impressed by the splendid totalisator equipment, notably the facility with which the figures could be read and the arrangement for displaying investments separately on a board in front of the stands. This operated simultaneously with the machine and enabled the betting to be observed without going to the totalisator. What surprised him about the English totalisator was the adherence to the practice of selling two-shilling tickets. These comprised the buVc of the investments and involved a much greater task for the officials. It prolonged the work of paying out, too, and as the races were run at half-hour intervals investors had often not received their dividends when the next race started.