IN NEW ZEALAND
INCREASED BETTING PAST SEASON’S FIGURES A sum of £4,018,602 was handled by the totalisator iu the New Zealand racing season just concluded. This was an increase of £114,799 on the £3.903,803 handled in the previous season. The figures represent investments at both racing and trotting meetings, and conqmre with a total of £3,677,670 invested in 1932 33. Tho past season’s total was made up of £2,929,880 invested at race meet ings and £1.088.722 at trotting meet ings. The figures for the previous season were £2,780,028 and £1,123,775 respectively, so that racing showed an increase of £149.852 and trotting a decrease of £35,053. The influence of tho season’s great racing and trotting holiday carnivals is shown clearly in the monthly totalisalor figures. The greatest, monthly total of bets Coe race meetings last season was £438,345, recorded last January. The receipts in December were £301,685,, and in April they were £36,066. These were the three largest monthly totals.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 182, 6 August 1935, Page 11
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