Source: Wes Stacey, ca 1970
Keith Paul was Stock and Station Agent at 105 Mayne (building next to the Opera House). His son Peter Paul took over the business. Peter's wife, Rita nee Hooper, was the matron of the hospital.
According to Annie Lyons, in the very early days there was a bark hut on this site that was a school.
“My father came from Switzerland to the Goldrush: Peter Jago was his name, and my mother came from Campbelltown. In those days, there were no, what you call now, Australians, everyone was a foreigner of some sort. The buildings were made of stringy bark. You know there used to be an old bark school house up there in Mayne Street, where Keith Paul’s office is [103-105 Mayne Street], where my husband Alf went to school.
