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Michael McCarthy

Michael "Mack" McCarthy
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Guano and Pearls, Steamships and Suffragettes

Hed at 7.00pm, Thursday 26 May, 2011 at Western Australian Museum — Geraldton

How did the SS Xantho sink overloaded with lead ore at Port Gregory? Take a journey through the lives of pioneering ship merchant and businessman Charles Broadhurst, his wife Eliza an early feminist, his son Florance the award winning guano merchant and his daughter Kitty the suffragette.

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