[2][3] Its primary traffic was supplies to the nearby Tokanui Psychiatric Hospital.

[4] Surveying to extend the railway from Te Awamutu to Ōtorohanga was started in 1883 by Charles Wilson Hursthouse.

[5] The first sod ceremony was performed at the Puniu River on 15 April 1885.

[9] By 1896 there was a shelter shed, platform, cart approach and a passing loop for 27 wagons, extended to 38 by 1911.

[10] In 1912 a meeting asked for a loading bank, cattle yards, caretaker and goods shed and to change the name from Te Puhi to the same as the post office, Te Mawhai.