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At a preliminary meeting of the [[Royal Commission|Police Commission]] held at the Treasury yesterday, Mr Longmore, MLA, in the chair, Mr Graves, MLA, called attention to remarks made in certain newspapers animadverting on his appointment as a member of the commission, lie declared that he had said nothing in- side or outside Parliament that he was ashamed of, or that, in his opinion, disqualified him from assisting in the inquiry, and he could only regard the comments in question as attempte to drive him from the commission. At the same time he had no desire to act if his brother members thought his presence and co-operation likely to prove injurious to the public interest or depreciate the value of the commission's report.