This country used to be a good place to live but now it is filled to the brim with thieves and scumbags. Honesty boxes were a common sight on roadsides but apparently they are going the way of the Dodo. Who the fuck drives all the way out to a farm to steal 4 trays of eggs? (and drop one tray by the way) The petrol cost to get their far outweighs any benefits of stealing the eggs.
This next story is about Holy Milk.
Port Chalmers couple Merrall and Alex MacNeille are the dynamic duo behind the company, which largely supplies fresh milk in glass bottles, as well as cheese, yoghurt and cream, to its loyal customer base.
In addition to selling at shops and the Otago Farmer's Market, the company uses a vending machine as well as the farm honesty box system.
The honesty system, which accepts either cash or via an IOU book had run for 19-years, but now Holy Cow was forced to end it, Merrall MacNeille said.
‘‘It hasn’t been perfect . . . but it has been a decent, workable system.
“But our honour system is now breaking down,.”
The couple used to operate a small farm in Massachusetts, before emigrating to New Zealand in 2003.
They operated a similar system back on their farm in the United States in 1985.
“It is something we have done for years and years and years.’’
Since December the farm had been ripped-off at least three times “and I imagine there are more’’.
there doesn't seem to be anything here