PAYMENT IN FROGS
AMOUNT OWING ON MOTOR CYCLE UNUSUAL CASE IN BRITAIN NZPA—Copyright Rec. 8.30 p.m. LONDON, Jan. 14. The judge sitting at the Redruth County Court, Cornwall, awarded 1500 frogs to John Henry Skewes, who sued Albert Shortman for £24 or the balance of 2500 frogs. Both men come from the village of Peace where they hunt frogs for medical research Skewes alleged that 25,000 frogs was the price agreed for a motor cycle but only 88 frogs had been deliveredShortman said that 1000 frogs was the agreed price, which he had paid. “This little community appears to think in terms of frogs,” said the judge “They deal on.a basis of £1 a 10C frogs. I should think no more inconvenient currency could have been found since it is a form with great mobility apt to disappear with ever greater rapidity than £ notes.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26980, 15 January 1949, Page 7
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144PAYMENT IN FROGS Otago Daily Times, Issue 26980, 15 January 1949, Page 7
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