COOPER MAY APPEAL
Leave Sought In Melbourne
MELBOURNE, March 9 Brian Leonard Cooper, aged 24, a former administration clerk in New Guinea, asked the full High Court of Melbourne today for leave to appeal against his conviction at Port Moresby for sedition. The Chief Justice of Papua- New Guinea (Mr Justice Mann) sentenced Cooper to tvo months* imprisonment on February 1 for having spoken seditious words to natives last September 13, 14 and 15.
Cooper, was flown to Melbourne and released on bail last month. His counsel, Mr J. H. Staunton, of Sydney, outlined the evidence of the principal native witnesses, a former sergeant called Somu, who reported the alleged seditious utterances tu the police, and Stahl Solum, who is first ndtive member of the Copra Marketing Board and secretary of the Native Society at Madang. Cooper was alleged to have outlined plans by which the natives could violently seize control of Madang from the European population with possible aid from Russia or China.
He claimed that in a threeday series of conversations about self government, he told the natives the various ways in which self government could come about as it had in other countries.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29459, 10 March 1961, Page 17
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