Environmentalists put Tasmania on the world's Christmas map by lighting up what is believed to be the world's tallest Christmas tree in the Styx Valley.

Two men complete chopping around the base of a large tree trunk with hand-held axes. The tree falls to the ground.

Darley (Frank Harvey) has just shot dead Charles Blake (Campbell Copelin), in Jim Thornton’s cabin. Blake had made Claire Darley pregnant, then refused to marry her.

A union agitator urges Burbridge’s timber workers to strike for better pay, or join the opposition firm, run by Charles Blake.

Darley (Frank Harvey) and Charles Blake (Campbell Copelin) plot the sabotage of Stephen Burbridge’s timber-cutting operations.