NEWS ITEMS

Taupo Times, Volume II, Issue 67, 29 April 1953, Page 1

NEWS ITEMS

Taupo Fire Brigade. — The Taupo Fire Brigade are holding a grand dance in Rickit's Hall on Saturday evening next, May 2, and arrangements in hand indicate that the function is likely to be a popular one. * Big Brown Trcut. — An outstanding brown trout was taken on Wednesday evening of last week by Mr George Beale, a local j angler, fly-fishing from the rock ! igroyne above the wharf. The fish a female, was taken on a typical "long-tailed" fly, with red body and fclack feathers, tied on a No. 6 hook. It weighed twelve and a half pounds, was twenty-seven inehes in length, with a girth of eighteen inehes, being in splendid eondition and beautifully p-roportioned. Mr Beale has fished the neighbourhood of the Waikato Outlet fairly consistently in the evenings since the beginning of the year, and has taken between forty and fifty fish there, this being the larg- | est. His largest catch was five fish. ?

Innovation In >Shop Service. — An innovation in shop method in Taupo has been introduced at Morris's Service Store, Rifle Range Road where Mr W. N. Morris has introduced the self service system. All goods are classified and arranged so that they are easily seen and aecessible, goods that are not packaged by the makers are wrapped in conyenient weights or amounts, and all items have price marked. Customers receive a convenient container in which to place purchases, these being check- | ed and priced in the usual way as they leave the store. A deep-freeze has been installed, with open top,

from which customers can take their selection of perishable provisions. The system avoids any waiting by customers even at the busiest peri- ! ods, and has become increasingly 1 popular in many places. Telephoned an^ delivery orders will be taken as hitherto.