SEDITION PUNISHED.
COOKE GETS 12 MONTHS. Per Press Association. Christchurch, December 19. I At the Magistrate’s Court, before | Mr H. W. Bishop, S.M., Fred Riley i Cooke, a prominent local Socialist, I was charged that on December 10th, ! he expressed seditions intentions contrary to the War Regulations. The charge arose over a speech in the Socialist Hall in which Cooke denounced the Conscription Act. Cooke pleaded not guilty. 1 A portion of the speech was- read, criticising the act. j Mr Bishop : ‘Do you • tell mei that , you intend, whatever the results of this case are, to insist on the right to criticise the Act? Accused: 1 certainly must. Mr Bishop said that such an attij tude must influence his judgment, and ; Cooke would be sentenced to twelve i months’ imprisonment.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 21, 19 December 1916, Page 2
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131SEDITION PUNISHED. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 21, 19 December 1916, Page 2
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