GREYHOUND RACING.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 19, 19 December 1932, Page 7

GREYHOUND RACING.

TOTALISATOR DECLARED ILLEGAL. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Dec. 16. Great interest lias been aroused by a judgment of the Lord Chief Justice in the King’s Bench Court to-day, the effect of which is to render illegal the use of the totalisator on greyhound racing tracks, in which approximately £3,000,000 has been invested in recent years, and which are patronised by a huge public. Shares of greyhound racing companies, the present value of which is estimated at about £10,000.000, were marked down on the Stock Exchange this afternoon. The decision will probably also affect “tote clubs,” the number of which has been increasing rapidly in recent months and may reach 1000 in the whole of England. Judgment in this case is final, but newspapers forecast that the matter will be taken to the • House of Lords on another case now in the Chancery Court.

The Commissioner of Police is understood to be considering the position arising from the judgment in association with the Home Secretary. It is considered probable that steps will be taken to close down “tote clubs” immediately.

Greyhound race meetings are to be held in several places to-night and, according to the statements of managers, tho totalisator will be in use. It is estimated that £10,000.000 a vear is passing through the greyhound totalisators. Unless the decision is upset it means that only racecourse totalisators are legal.