Minister Is Cited As Co-Respondent

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 412, 21 July 1928, Page 9

Minister Is Cited As Co-Respondent

CANADIAN SENSATION

FORMER NEW ZEALANDER

(United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) (United Service) Reed. 1.15 p.m. VANCOUVER, Friday. A commission of the Presbyterian Church has decided adversely in the case of the Rev. William Robertson Orr, who came to Canada three years ago from Wellington, New Zealand.

The commission finds that has been guilty of conduct so unbecoming in a minister as to necessitate dissolution of his pastoral tie with a fashionable central church at Vancouver, and that he remains in suspension from holy duties until completion of the divorce action now pending. Orr is named as co-respondent by Gordon Fleck, a middle-aged capitalist, who sues his wife for divorce because he alleges that she took a trip with Orr in the latter’s room aboard a steamer from Vancouver to Victoria.

The evidence includes an overheard conversation between Orr and Mrs. Fleck over the telephone, in which she sweetly described her present bedroom condition as “as nude as my nose.” The lady later explained that she was referring to a new-fangled face powder called “Nude,” and that her words over the ’phone were: “I am nuding my nose.”

It is alleged by the other side that this so-called “Nude” powder was not marketed in Vancouver until several weeks after the alleged ’phone conversation.

In any event, the case has church circles by the ears throughout every city in Canada, and the committee’s action to-day was the result of discussion by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Canada.