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Bruce Yager stands by one of his poultry houses which was completely flattened at Hexton.

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Wally Jonasen's poultry sheds at Makaraka ended up like this.

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Roofs and walls were just hurled away such as these from Wally Jonasen's.

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More damage at Bruce Yager's poultry farm.

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The walls and roofs of Brian Amor's hen houses at Hexton were lifted bodily and dispersed around the property.

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Patients were evacuated from Ward 8 at the Cook Hospital where the roof of the ward blew away.

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A large gum tree smashed down in the grounds of the hospital covering the "small building" at the entrance of the car park.

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This Holden just happened to be in the wrong place when a tree just outside the car park near Ward 8 crashed down at the height of the storm.

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The concrete pole supporting Openshaw's supermarket sign was snapped at ground level and in the centre.

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Mrs G. Olsen surveys the overturned bus shelter at the corner of Childers and Lytton Road.

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Mrs N. Summersby stands among wrecked trees at the Orange Grove motels. At back can be seen all that remains of some of the carports at the motels.

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An overturned roadside stall at Makaraka.

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A large gum tree crashed through this bus at the show-grounds.

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The Catholic Church at Patutahi was shifted four feet to one side but only broke three windows in doing so.

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The roof of Mr and Mrs E. E. Williamson's residence in Riverside Road was deposited about 200 yards away from the house, while, below right, Mr and Mrs Williamson survey the damage to their house.

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Mr B. Mead's chimney, at his residence, 60 Lytton Road, was blown over. On the job with repairs are Peter Fisher and Stan Priday.

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The whole roof of a prefabricated classroom at the Kaiti school took off in the gale.

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Shop canvas awnings were torn to shreds.

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Large signs were pushed out of shape.

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Frank Bullen surveys the wreckage after clearing away a large pine tree which crashed down on his implement shed.

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The one ironic touch to the whole thing was this old hut, built in a willow tree at the back of the Scout Hall in Carnarvon Street, which didn't even budge.

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The wind recorder chart at the meteorological office shows the force of the wind as building up from 30 miles an hour at 10p.m. on the Tuesday to 86 miles an hour at 3a.m. and again at 4a.m. on the Wednesday.

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Evidence of the extremely unusual conditions is shown on the barometric chart where the pressure is shown dropping from 1020 milli-bars to a low of 974 milli-bars.

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Fallen trees and live broken power lines blocked the road to the hospital and the emergency entrance from Valley Road was used.

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Seconds after Basil Adair entered this shed at the back of his home in Stout Street during the storm to get a raincoat, part of a proof from a building in Ormond Road crashed down behind him.

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Hundreds of cases of nearly ripe apples were lost from trees such as these in an orchard at Matawhero.

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The old pohutukawai in front of the court-house was another casualty. However it was cut back heavily and replanted by Bayly's nurserymen and there is every chance that it will re-establish itself.

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Some of the big oak trees in Karamu Street were also brought down.

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Maizecribs around the countryside were bowled over.

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Spectacular results were evident in the pine plantation in Awapuni Road where the tops of the trees were snapped off like match sticks.