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'''MR J H GRAVES, MLA, AND THE POLICE'''
TO THE EDITOR 0F THE ARGUS
Sir,-A gentleman has just pointed out to me your article in last Saturday's Argus upon the personnel of the [[Royal Commission|Police Board of Inqury]] in which you state that the selection of the chairman (Judge Cope) was decidedly unhappy, through his being untested and untried, and that the selection of Mr J H [[Graves|Graves]] was indecent. These are solely matters of opinion between you and your leaders, and of which the public have already formed their own judgment, but you further state that 1 (J H Graves) have made serious and bitter charges against the police and against particular officers. These statements I say are incorrect. May I therefore request you to inform me upon what authority you make these allegations. 1 may, in conclusion, add that I know that the reluctance of gentlemen to act on this board arises from the fact that the labour pertaining thereto involves a sacrifice of time and expense, to say nothing of the unpleasant- ness of the duties, to which members, already severcly overtaxed by Parliamentary service,
feel themselves unequal -Yours, &.c , _
Feb 21 JAMES H. GRAVES.
[We refer Mr Graves to his own speeches in Parliament last year. To give one instance Mr Graves is reported in Hansard to have said on November 25 -"I am in a position to assert and to prove, when the proper time cornes, that a large amount of money was spent by the outlaws at Benalla, under the very noses and to the knowledge of the police." Our assertion is that a gentleman who has serious charges such aa this to make, and to prove, should, as we said, be a wit- ness or a prosecutor, and not a judge. Mr Graves is the very last man who ought to have been appointed, and if he had any feel- ing of delicacy, or decency, he would at once resign,-Ed A ]
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