Royal Commission report day 48 page 12
The Royal Commission evidence for 1/9/1881
(see also introduction to day 48)
'Sup Francis Augustus Hare giving evidence'
16462 Was not the weather very wet? Was it not raining every day?— I do not recollect. It may have been.
16463 And yet you say you came into Benalla, in order to come down to Melbourne, knocked up?— I did, from my position where I lay dying, as the men thought, and I got to Violet Town, and sent for Dr. Nicolson.
16464 You asked for promotion over a certain superintendent?— I did, in 1871, and it was refused me by Captain Standish himself.
16465 If you were the principal in Power's case, why were you not promoted?— That is what I want to know; I have often asked that question myself. I would like you to tell me.
16466 Will you point out one step of promotion I received except by seniority?— I say in the matter of pay.
16467 You have led the Commission to think I was promoted in that matter?— Yes; I said you got the money.
16468 Was I not the next on the list for promotion?— Yes; but I say your pay has been increased several times; mine has never been but once.
16469 Were you not a second-class superintendent in 1870, at the time of the Power business?— Yes
16470 Was I not well up in the first-class superintendents—[handing a paper to the witness]?— Yes. I see here by this return that Mr. Winch is above Mr. Nicolson , and the next year he is below.
16471 That has nothing to do with this business?— It has.
16472 If Captain Standish considered you were deserving of so much credit that he actually placed you over me as you assert?— I do not think he placed you over me, or me over you. I think in the drawing up of the report we both signed it, and that is a most unusual thing. If you went out to capture the Kellys , and you had a junior officer with you, both would not sign.
16473 Supposing we both went out to capture any one, do you think I would write a despatch and sign it myself?— I do.
16474 Two officers and their men being out together, do you think we would not sign it together?— I do not think so.
16475 I gave that as my reason for it, that I would have given Montfort permission to sign it if he had not been only a sergeant?— Such a thing as that is not usual in the service.
16476 With reference to your salary, since you say in 1854 you received £300 per annum, and now £375; have not changes in the rates of pay been common since then in the civil service, and with officers generally?— Yes.
16477 And that has affected both your salary and mine?— Yes.
16478 You stated I received £500 a year and house allowance when I was in charge of the detective force?— I do not think so, but I suppose you did.
16479 No, I did not. If you remember the Estimates, I received £500 a year then in lieu of all allowances?— This was the year before the Power business that you were in charge of the detectives. I never referred to you on that occasion, because I did not know anything about you.
16480 You said a little ago that Mr. O'Connor assumed that Captain Standish helped you to compose that report of the 2nd July?— Yes.
16481 What grounds have you for that?— I ask the Commission if he did not leave that impression on their minds, when I read the evidence, that it implied that, and I explained it to the Commission afterwards.
16482 The Chairman— I think he implied that some one had assisted you to write it.
16483 By Mr. Nicolson— You stated that Mr. O'Connor assumed that Captain Standish helped you in that way?— Because he assumed that Captain Standish and I were united in such bonds that I could not do anything without him.
16484 Since the capture of Power you received an addition to your salary for a year or two of £100 per annum?— I received an addition from Mr. Ramsay when he came into office, I think for a year, and I think after that for a year and a half; and whilst I was away Mr. Chomley received the same pay while he was in charge of the Depot,
16485 That was an increase after the Power arrest. When you were away on full pay, did you not also receive full pay?— Yes. ....
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