Whether you need pine cones for your fire or pony poo for your garden, there's not much that you can't buy courtesy of New Zealand's honesty boxes. Although I'm from an agricultural area of Canada, I didn't encounter honesty boxes until I moved to New Zealand. Now we know that the real threat to honesty boxes isn't dishonesty, but rather EFTPOS. David Clarke, the developer behind the My Honesty Box app, believes it might take technology to save tradition. Part of the appeal of honesty boxes is that you never quite know where you're going to find one.

Source: New Zealand Herald February 21, 2021 00:00 UTC