The original school building had classrooms on the ground floor , and rooms for the boarders upstairs . It stood where the main hostel building , Hewett House , now stands . It was badly damaged in the 1931 Hawke 's Bay earthquake , and had to be demolished . The main building of the present school , named Spencer Building after Miss A.E.J. Spencer , the school 's third principal , stands in what was the original playing area of the first school
1931 Hawke 's Bay earthquake
1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake
Napier Girls' High School