Windows were blown in, television aerials were damaged, communications were interrupted and power was cut in some areas.

Telephone communications between Dargaville and Whangarei was cut when the roof of a large farm barn blew off and crossed the lines at Maungatapere. The line from Whangarei to Auckland was disrupted when a tree fell at Paparoa.

Wind speeds of up to 66 mph (106 k/hr) were reached.

House and shop windows were blown in.

Three large poulty houses were wrecked at Henderson and Papatoetoe and the damage was placed at more than £10,000 ($374,900 2010 dollars). At least 200 chickens were killed in one poultry house.

In the South Auckland area uprooted trees blocked some roads. On a four mile stretch between Maramarua and Waitakaruru bus travellers counted six trees across the road.

At the height of the storm winds of up to 64 mph (103 km/hr) were recorded.

The gale blew the roof off a home in Titirangi and blew down down the half-completed walls of a motel along Great North Road. The damage for the motel was was estimated at £1000 ($37,500 2010 dollars).

The districts worst affected by wind were between Waitakaruru, Ngatea, Kerepehi and Paeroa.

Implement sheds and outbuildings on numerous Hauraki Plains farms were flattened by the wind.

Trees and power powers were blown to the ground blocking roads with rubble and debris and live wires in some cases.

Sheets of iron were lifted from the roofs of houses. Others lost tiles and had windows smashed in. Television aerials buckled.

The disruption of the electrical power services caused widespread disorganisation of the milking operations

A new 1200 square feet house in Kaihere was almost totally unroofed. Farm sheds and hay barns were wrecked, many totally beyond repair.

All along the road from Kaihere to Ngatea trees were blown down, while power and telephone lines were broken in a number of places.

A huge macrocarpa crashed through a kitchen.

Wind flattened a 100 acre (40 ha) pine plantation owned by the Forest Service.

The meteorological station in Bush Road, Ngatea, recorded wind speeds of 104 mph (167 km/hr).

More than 300 large shelter trees on a property near Ngatea were uprooted. A whole belt of macrocarpas 60 chains long was blown over leaving craters more than 20 feet across.

On one property there were two haysheds, a pumpshed and 20 trees blown down. The fallen trees pulled up about 200 yards of half-inch water piping along a fence line. Both piping, and fence were suspended 8 ft in the air.

Many farm buildings were demolished in the Hikutaia, Komata and Mill Road areas.

A Turua farmer lost 15 of 25 heifers when they were electrocuted when power lines fell.

There was considerable damage at Waihi and in the surrounding areas, though nothing of an extremely serious nature.

A number of windows were broken or blown in by freak winds

There are about 250 trees down on a farm.

A new implement shed was smashed to pieces and numerous garages and hay sheds were said to have been destroyed.

A fowlhouse collapsed killing 400 hens on a poultry farm in Whangarata, near Tuakau, on the night of the 7th. Two hundred fowls were killed on another farm one and a half miles away.

Trees were blown down and citrus trees suffered heavy damage.

Wind speeds of up to 70 mph (113 km/hr) were reached.