A Maori Maid's Love (Originally titled The Surveyor's Daughter) is a 1916 Australian silent film written and directed by Raymond Longford about an interracial romance between a white man and a Māori girl.
[2] Graham, an unhappily married surveyor, goes on a job to New Zealand where he falls in love with a Māori woman.
He blamed this on the influence of "the Combine" of Australasian Films and Union Theatres, who dominated distribution and exhibition at the time.
[6][7] The critic from the Sydney Sun called it "unquestionably the best moving picture produced up to date at this end of the world... there would be little need for importing films while Australia can make her own of such a standard.
Director Raymond Longford had a hard task when he posed the Māori maids before the camera and deserves credit for the results obtained.