CONSCIENCE MONEY.
A SCHOOL ATLAS.
"When a former pupil of your school left <o go <o another part of (be country he stold one of' the school .atlases. Having just joined the church and being about to make his first confession, knowing- that ho cannot be forgiven' entirely, unless lie repairs all wrong done.as far as lies in his pciver, he encloses the sum of two shillings in liberal, payment for the atlas mentioned above." Tins letter! received recently I'y Hie headmaster of the Rotorua district school, Mr. 13 M. Green, was discussed at • a meeting-of the school committee. The letter was unsigned, and no .sjeps could be tat en to send a receipt for. the "conscience money". to the anonymous former pupil. '
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20902, 18 June 1931, Page 13
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123CONSCIENCE MONEY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20902, 18 June 1931, Page 13
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