Royal Commission report Appendix 17

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Appendix 17 Chomley’s report

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The following letter was received from H. M. Chomley, Esq., Acting Chief Commissioner of Police, and was read at the meeting held Tuesday, 9th August:—

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Police Department, Chief Commissioner's Office,

Melbourne , 12th August 1880 .

My dear Chomley,

In reply to your letter of yesterday, I beg to say that you never at any time showed the slightest disinclination to proceed to the North-Eastern district in connection with the pursuit of the outlaws; on the contrary, in November 1878 you expressed your willingness to undertake that duty, but as Mr. Nicolson was then in charge of operations, I thought it unnecessary to send up another officer. Subsequently, as you are aware, I proceeded to Benalla myself with Hare immediately after I received the news of the Euroa bank robbery, and remained there upwards of six months.

I wish to disabuse your mind of the idea that Hare in his report conveyed, or had the intention of conveying, the slightest reflection on you or the other officers whose names are mentioned. His statement is an accurate account of what passed between him and me, and on that occasion he strongly urged on me that you should be selected for that duty, more especially as you had been stationed at Beechworth before.

Having known you intimately for 26 years, and our official connection having extended over close on 22 years, I may state that I have had at all times the greatest confidence in your tact, judgment, and energy, and I have no doubt that had you been gent to the N. –E. district no one would have performed his duty more satisfactorily.

I may inform you that Mr. Service's Government decided that it would be advisable to remove Mr. Nicolson and to send up Mr Hare in his place, and I was instructed to carry out that arrangement.

Yours very truly

F. C. STANDISH.

H. M. Chomley, Esq.

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