Freight was handled from 2 September 1904, though it wasn't until 16 September 1908 that it was listed as having a station yard, formation and fencing and 10 November 1908, when it was described as a 6th class station, with passenger platform, urinals, cart approach, a 30 ft (9.1 m) x 20 ft (6.1 m) goods shed and loading bank.

[2] However, in 1912 the Town Board asked for a stationmaster and postmaster to be appointed as the post office was on the station.

[5] In 1938 fixed home and distance colour-light signals were installed and it became a switch-out tablet station.

[7] Logs were brought by a 5 mi (8.0 km) tramway[8] from Ohotaka,[9] with a 340 ft (100 m) bridge built over the Whanganui River in 1905.

[10] The mill closed in 1942[11] and burnt down in 1949, but the Ellis Veneer works continued,[12] producing about 7,000,000 ft (2,100,000 m) of plywood in 1953.