Opening intertitle: “Within a few hours train or motor run is ROTORUA - in the heart of the wonderful thermal belt, where Nature plays some eerie pranks ...”. Steaming rocks. Bubbling hot water. Intertitle: “Pohutu Geyser”. Geyser playing. Intertitle: “Papakura Geyser”. Geyser. Intertitle indulging in metaphor: “Gramophone Records in mud.” Circle patterns formed by boiling mud. Intertitles for more mud patterns: “... mud flowers ... ” and “ ... mud frogs ...” Intertitle: “ ... and a miniature volcano”, Steam from top of earth mound. Intertitle: “The remarkable Puarenga Geyser which broke out recently on the edge of a popular cold water trout stream”. Geyser. “Among the brown-skinned Maoris”
Group at Whakarewarewa self-consciously posing for camera. Group raising and lowering spears/sticks and mere at front of wharenui. M.S. of Rangi (the Te Arawa carver). War dance at back of wharenui. Intertitle: “The bloodcurdling Haka - the dance tale of war”. Men performing the haka. Intertitle: “Poi Dance”. Women performing poi.