Bush boy gets lucky

This is young Jack aged 14 (right) soon after he has run away from school to work in the bush in 1922. On his first day his dad sacks him for not listening. Jack then works for Irene in the cookhouse for six months, which turns out to be his luckiest break. He is at camp when Ruth McIsaac, also aged 14, walks to visit from Tramway Camp, 12 km up a steep pack-horse track. This visit starts a teenage romance in the Kauaeranga bush.