[The Story of the Honesty Box]
While bicycling throughout New Zealand, Alison and I found numerous white sandy beaches with well maintained grassy paddocks set up as simple campgrounds with a long drop outhouses and fresh water. It was early in the season and we often had the campgrounds to ourselves with no supervision or fellow travellers.

One day a family, obviously with very few pennies to rub together, set up camp close to us in our empty campground. The first thing they did was send a child to fill the "honesty box" with the coins sufficient for a week's stay. It became graphically apparent to us that New Zealanders honoured each other through trust as an elegant solution on how to keep a remote beautiful vista available for all.

Having studiously ignored the Kiwi honesty boxes up to that point, we were shamed to realise that we lived in a personal world bereft of such community ethic, integrity or trust. In reflection, ours was an impoverished existence. Since then I have conducted all of my life's financial transactions as if they were for an honesty box. It feels wonderful. Welcome to our world.

Stephen & Alison Vardy

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[The Fine Print]

[Paypal Receipt]
A formal receipt for your payment will be sent to your email inbox.

[Common Sense User License]
You are free to use any tunes and files paid for via the Honesty Box in any manner you so choose for personal and live performance forever. You may re-download and re-print these same files as you wish. If you want to share the tunes with another harper send your colleague to this website [and the Honesty Box] so they too can enjoy the same privileges.

If you intend to record any of these tunes we would like to hear from you. All the tunes and arrangements are registered with SOCAN. The tunes and downloads on this website cannot be commercially reproduced or distributed without Alison's express permission. Thank you.

[Privacy]
West Coast Harps retains no permanent user information from your Honesty Box payments or .PDF downloads.