Originally recorded on black & white 8mm film, this amateur home movie captured footage of:
Opening title: “ODDS & ENDS around the farm”.
Shots of kittens playing on path. Shots of beehives; cat sitting on top of beehive. Men with protective face veils removing combs from beehive. Collecting swarm of bees from tree trunk. Close up shots of bees. Bumblebees on flowers. Ewes and lambs in hill paddocks. Tractor driver mowing hay, close shot of man holding pitch fork smiling. Team of men building hay stack with the help of a block and tackle arrangement pulled by a horse. Tractor bringing more hay. [Jersey] cows grazing. [Bull] scratching in mud. Kittens playing on steps. Man driving horse-drawn hay rake. Wide-shot of haystack being made. Man guiding grapples around mound of hay. Boy driving tractor back and forth to raise hay on crane. Shots of men being lowered from hay stack by holding on to grapples and shots of tractor operator. Hay making team taking ‘smoko’ tea break. Horse eating hay. Tractor gathering hay.
Close up shots of men at encampment. Men crossing steep terrain. Shots of men clearing [manuka] scrub with axes. Men drinking from stream. View of camp, man carrying water pails and another man lighting camp fire. Tabby cat on steps. Men taking heavy [grain] sacks from corrugated iron shed and loading them onto horse drawn wagon. Man playing with farm dog. Man putting rooster on back of draft horse and horse moving off with wagon. Rooster sill riding on horse’s back across farm yard, dog on wagon, and man walking alongside. Man filling horse drawn [dispersing trough] from sacks and [dispersing fertiliser] on field. Cow wearing ill-fitting horse harness, horse yawning.
People taking stroll on beach, views of beach.