CONSCIENCE MONEY
BELATED PAYMENTS. SYDNEY, Dec. 16. What is termed “conscience money” usually takes its form in small amounts, a fact which invests with special interest windfall under this head, which was received a few days ago by the Railway Department, of New South Wales. It amounted to £l5, and came all the way from the Irish Free State. The same department can thank one of the recent evangelical missions for another amount of 2s. It appears from the sender’s confession to the Department that when a child, about 30 years ago, the ticket collector on a train on which he was travelling, missed going to him for his fare. A little while back, however, an evangelist came to the town in which the man is now living, and told his audience that the Lord would not hear them if they had iniquity in their hearts. In the audi-
ence was the man in question. His mind went back to the day when he was a child and travelled free on the railways. He sent the department 2s, which incidentally included interest. Another person with a qualm of conscience sent the department 12s 44d. He was precise as well as honest.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19734, 31 December 1926, Page 9
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201CONSCIENCE MONEY Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19734, 31 December 1926, Page 9
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