[1] The handbuilt camera used was built by Ted Coubray and "confiscated" by Alexander Markey on the set of Hei Tiki.

[2] The film included two original songs, for which Pollard wrote the words and a local composer, Howard Moody, the music.

[3] Two migrants from "Home", John Hawthron and Andy Henderson from Scotland, meet on a road building gang.

John has not yet made his fortune in the new country, but he eventually builds up a large transport and accommodation business and marries Mary, the daughter of a local landowner, despite the presence of a villainous local lawyer.

The Southland Times reported enthusiastically the next day: "The story is a slight one, but it is well-connected, more logical than those of most screen scenarists, and is admirably suited for conveying, without over-emphasis, the fact that Southland is a place of beauty.