Stella Southern

Bill Lawson (Eddie O'Reilly), a wharf labourer, loses his job and decides to go out bush to find work to support his wife Elsa (Stella Southern) and daughter Betty. He befriends a well-born Englishman, Kenneth Hillyard (Rawdon Blandford) after rescuing him from two thugs and the two decide to go prospecting together.

A country boy, Jim Conroy, is living a dissolute life in the city, running around with vamp Helen Ross. When his father cuts him off, he is dumped by Helen and returns to the bush.

depicted events in New Zealand history, including ancient Maori wars, Captain Cook's landing and the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi.

Australian-New Zealand lost film about an interracial romance between a white Australian man and a Māori girl