Totalisators.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2049, 30 March 1887, Page 2

Totalisators.

In one of *'Zuuiiol’n ' ' Hi'iiiiom Shots,” in the Auckland Mar, he hAv* : —Sporting men will bear me out when I say that nineteenths of ail the horse raciug swindles attempted or accomplished are rendered possible by the totalisator, which also provides the temptation to indulge in crooked tactics. In the interests of purity of sport, no less than for the sake of public morals, it is becoming evident that “ the totalisator must go and if after that the bookmakers introduce objectionable features into their busineee, the “ bookies ” must go as well Meanwhile it is that infernal apparatus the totalisator that rales the roost on every racecourse ; meetings ars organised solely in its interest, and -lookey Club rules are made subservient to the ends of the imperious machine. The totalisator will have to go, but 1 am bound to confess that I don"> agree with the Bev Mr Filchett in thinking that the Church bazaar raffles should remain, Hit came be a question of the “ survival of the fittest the fittest in this case being the more honorable and less harmless of two institutions —I should say the church lotteries would “go under ’ first.