Appeal
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Mr. O. F. Nelson’S Exile
From Samoa
English Privy Council Refuses Appeal
THE Privy Council, England, has dis missed Mr. O. F. Nelson’s appeal against the verdict given in June last year by the Full Court of New Zealand, upholding the sentence of 10 years’ exile from Western Samoa.
Convicted of sedition by the High Court of Samoa, Mr. Nelson was sentenced in March, 1934, to eight months’ imprison ment and 10 years’ banishment. He appealed to the N.Z. Full Court, which quashed the gaol sentence, but allowed the sentence of exile to stand.
Mr. Nelson, who is now living in New Zealand, made a final appeal to the Privy Council in London, and it is this appeal that has just been refused.