The pupils are identified as follows. Back row, from left: Reg Mercer, Alec McPherson, Claude Mitchell, Bill Waters, S Wilson, Geo. Tucker, Marshall Wood. 3rd Row: Miss Buchanan, May Toms, Marj. Buchanan, Rosa Gillett, Vera Archer, Lizzie Gilchrist, Ethel Perrin, Jean Matheson. 2nd row: Beatrice Thornburn, Dick Mitchell, Jack Pitt, Glen Ross, Arthur Kidd, Frank Tucker, George Mellish, Annie Whitehead. Front row: Helen Porter, Ethel Watson, Belle Brown, Jessie Jamieson, Mary Ormond. There were four main incarnations of Central School - The Original School (corner of Main and Princess Streets, 1872-1890), Campbell Street School (1890-1922), Central School (Featherston Street, built 1922), Central Normal School (became a practice school for teachers college students in 1956).

Mr Richard Blythe, a pharmacist who went to night school to learn enameling, completed this copper sculpture for the Palmerston North Girls' High School Library. He was commissioned by the Old Girls Association to design and make work for the Library after the School Jubilee in 1977. The sculpture depicts four knights in the age of chivalry and is a tribute to a former principal, Miss E E Stephens, who established the School Library. Miss Stephens died in 1977. From left: Mr Blythe, Mrs Robson and Mrs Helen Thompson, the Principal.