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I 1 F 1 1 - ; ; PARI-MUTUELS IN AUSTRALIA. In New South WalltS. Australia, bookmaklng is sanctioned, and there is no totalizator, but a Royal Commission has been appointed to inquire into its merit*. The conuahanjna will visit, among other plnces. New Zealand, where the machine is popular. The N.w Baa I and Refei-.e says: We have to re member that some government members were vastly offended last session by the failure of the House to i Increase the number of days of racing, and that i in consequence they threatened to vote against the totalizator in the future." There is significance in the recent report from 1 Weal Australia of |ke Parliamentary action on the operation of the pari mutual system of race coaraa • investment in that state. Tha premier 1ms pre seiited a bill for the extension of the totalizator to trotting us w.-ll as racket;. H.Mik ma king Is still 1 permitted in West Australia, but the Premier snid 1 on tills asiou tlmt il was ■ question whether ii I should not be abolished, leaving the mechanical I system as the only ouj approved.
