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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume IV, Issue 176, 7 December 1893, Page 5

The totalisator returns for last Saturday’s race meeting prove pretty conclusively that racing clubs are very much better off without the bookmaker. At the last Avondale meeting the machine figures were Last Saturday the totalisator agents put through the sum of /2089, an advance of £389 compared with the amount for the preceding meeting, and this in the face of unpropitious weather, bad handicapping, prominent attraction in the cricket field and aquatic department, and the opposition of the pencilling fraternity. - *