Smyth’s mill was alongside the Waitakere River at the junction of Te Henga and Bethells Roads.

[4] In November 1919 Kauri Timber Company (KTC) sought tenders to extend the tramway,[5] to send logs to their Freeman’s Bay mill.

KTC had up to 600 men working 38,000 acres of Goldie’s Bush/Waitakere, Wainamu Valley, Snows Bush and Mokoroa Stream.

In the 1920s their driving dams sent logs to a lagoon (now Te Henga Wetland), where a steam launch towed them to the east end of the lake, near Brissenden Stream, then a tramway locomotive went on the north bank of the Waitakere River, crossed the river and continued a short way to the foot of the hill, where the steam hauler on Short Bros tram route, pulled the logs on their bogies, with a long wire rope, up the hill and along the ridge, close to the line of the present Steam Hauler Track.

By the end of 1925 the locomotives were sold, tram rails lifted and the stationary engines moved to Great Barrier Island, after taking 31m super feet of KTC timber and 4m for David Goldie & Sons.