Peter Dunstan

Forestry graduate Jim Thornton saves a young woman, Joan Burbridge, from drowning at Palm Beach. He later turns up to work at her adopted father Stephen's timber company. Burbridge is secretly being undermined by his treacherous foreman Darley and competitor Charles Blake. Blake is also engaged to Joan despite sleeping with Darley's sister Claire. Thornton eventually exposes Darley and takes his job, and organises a timber drive.

Andy Johnson (Harry Abdy) is a farmer who's taken full advantage of mechanization, while McDougal (Joe Valli) is hard-headed Scot who clings on to his antiquated farming methods and machinery. The stubborn Scot learns his lesson when a cyclone threatens his crop, and Johnson comes to his rescue with machines which help him complete his harvest licketty-split. Thanks to the power of modern farm machinery.