Pearling Master, Broome, Part 5 - Herbert Kennedy - early 1900s

Herbert "Bert" Kennedy, born in 1883, was a storekeeper, agent and pearling master, and has lived in Broome since the early days of the century. He is a sober, reliable yet humorous informant and his outstanding contribution ranges over the entire field of Broome life and the pearling industry. The same subjects come up again and again but not repetitiously. His is the point of view of a humane member of the local ruling class, a lugger-owner, family man, employer of coloured labour and secretary of the Master Pearlers’ Association. An outstanding informant. Notes by Wendy Lowenstein 1971