SMART BUSINESS.
Enterprising people on the borderline between Fitpice and Belgium have brought to a science the art of making money without much effort. Their scheme is of the utmost simplicity. They buy up every five-franc silver coin they can put their hands upon, and when they have secured about £4O worth, cross the border with them to French soil. Silver money is vaued h'gh'y in France, and the schemers are able to exchange their £4O of coins for Belgian paper money equal to £42. Then their return to Belgium again, and charge the paper for its face value, the banks be r.g forced to pay in coin of the realm.
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Waipa Post, Volume VIII, Issue 345, 1 September 1914, Page 3
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111SMART BUSINESS. Waipa Post, Volume VIII, Issue 345, 1 September 1914, Page 3
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